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This paper presents citizen science genomics, a research model contemplated for large-scale execution of preventive medicine research in crowdsourced cohorts. The model integrates personal genomic...
The Society for Participatory Medicine is a 501(c)3 public charity devoted to promoting the concept of participatory medicine by and among patients, caregivers and their medical teams and to...
MyHeartMap Challenge Will Create Nation's First Crowdsourced Citywide Registry of Automated External Defibrillators, Awarding $10,000 to Participant Who Locates Largest Number of Lifesaving...
The Pit Latrine Challenge seeks an affordable and user-friendly system that will allow BSF larvae to be used to reduce waste in mass pit latrines and then harvested and used elsewhere as an...
The growth of crowdsourcing is inevitable. Author Dave Clarke's prediction is that it will mature and become more sophisticated, perhaps even go behind closed doors in mainstream HCP...
According to Dr. Bertalan Meskó, crowdsourcing can be wonderful, but requires a lot of work and energy in advance.
Building on recent successes in utilizing crowdsourcing to solve science quandaries,and with a nod toward the public’s increasing reliance on smart phones to provide them with everything from...
"Imagine the amount of time physicians could save if they could ask a computer assistant a question and receive an instant and accurate response," says Dr. Suneel Sharman,...
The app's many successes to date include: Physicians across more than 30 specialties have used iConsult to crowdsource opinions on dermatological conditions, EKG readings, findings from...
Scientists looking for for research funding and health-care entrepreneurs seeking venture funding may now have two new options: Medstartr and IAMScientist. This startups aim to capitalize on the...
iAMscientist today officially launched KnowledgeXchange, a thought leadership web portal aimed at providing information related to crowdfunding for science, technology, and medicine (STM)....
Writing for Forbes, Haydn Shaughnessy champions the application of crowdsourcing to cure cancer. Crowdsourcing is a concept that has been made popular recently by corporations, such as Facebook and...
Doctors around the world can exchange insight and information over the internet. Crowdsourcing is helping more and more doctors research, publish and discuss findings amongst their peer groups....
The success of an open platform will rest with the community of users themselves. If patients and physicians volunteer experiences in an open and honest fashion, and engage in interactive...
Better Health is a network of popular health bloggers, brought together by Dr. Val Jones, founder and CEO. Their mission is to support and promote healthcare professional bloggers, provide...
Another way Doctors 2.0 are using social media is through crowd sourcing and collaboration. Crowd sourcing is particularly useful as it allows the creation, through the joint effort of different...
The Human Health Project (HHP) is a social network for medical professionals to discuss difficult health cases and solutions for the patient in need. The HHP is a free service and seeks to...
Lilly thinks applying these tests to a much wider set of promising compounds could speed development of drugs to fight cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, osteoporosis, and other diseases. Giving...
A group of Penn Medicine researchers Led by Dr. Raina Merchant, an emergency physician and resuscitation expert, is launching a crowdsourcing contest this Fall that will use a smartphone app to plot the locations of Philadelphia's public automated external defibrillators (AED) which are used to restore cardiac arrest victims' hearts to their normal rhythm.
The MyHeartMap Challenge a great idea among a growing trend toward using crowdsourcing to find solutions to troubling problems in health care, are inviting people to use app to tag the photos with location information and details about the device like its color and manufacturer.
The Penn contest aims to catalog those devices and build an app using the database of AED locations which will link to a person's GPS coordinates and help them locate the nearest AED during an emergency. There's an estimated one million AEDs across the nation, hung clearly on the walls in airports and casinos, but also tucked away in restaurant closets and under the cash register in coffee shop.
Cancer Commons is a new patient-centric paradigm for translational medicine, in which every patient receives personalized therapy based upon the best available science, and researchers...
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