Crowdsourcing for clinical trials and to enhance medical diagnosis
Medical crowdsourcing enables effective collaboration on everything from diagnosis to clinical trials.
New WEGO Health Experts platform goes beyond company’s pharma base
The new WEGO Health Experts is meant to extend the Boston-based company's reach beyond pharma and life sciences.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
HealthTap goes global by seeking translation of medical content
HealthTap also is, for the first time, inviting physicians outside the U.S. to join its network of medical experts.
Crowdsourced surgical video library GIBLIB launches
The videos are not peer-reviewed before posting. Instead, GIBLIB is relying on the collective wisdom of physicians to determine which videos to prominently feature.
Gamification leads to era of armchair scientists
The citizen scientists aren’t necessarily qualified to operate scientific gizmos and gadgets, but via gamification they can be taught to analyze images and design molecules, thereby contributing to the fight against tuberculosis from their armchair.
Startup asks people to ‘donate’ social media for suicide prevention
Qntfy, a Crownsville, Maryland-based, early-stage company, recently launched OurDataHelps.org, in conjunction with a psychologist and two suicide prevention activists.
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Google continues to prove its mettle in public health research
Despite early concerns, the concept of "crowdsourced health" has caught on with public-health researchers.
Can data mining improve health information on Wikipedia?
DocGraph will share the data it collects with WikiProject Medicine, a collaboration that works to improve health and medical content on Wikipedia.
Crowdsourcing is being used to help diagnose those patients who have doctors stumped
When doctors can't figure out what is wrong with a patient who is suffering, it can feel like there is no hope. But the help of strangers could make a life-changing difference.
Google has some competition in crowdsourcing public health
BuzzFeed discusses how analysis of social media and Internet search habits has proven so useful in identifying public health outbreaks and other trends.
Maximize Revenue and Patient Care with Strategic Weight Loss Management
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
The 8 categories of crowdsourcing in healthcare
In 2012, we authored a report titled The Evolving Business Case for Social Media in Healthcare – a publication covering the range of social media influences on the industry. These influences were essentially cloud-based approaches to sharing information between consumers, individual care professionals and healthcare organizations. Back then, ‘Likes’ and ‘Follows’ were the social currency […]
Startup crowdsourcing for better clinical trial design
Transparency Life Sciences is looking to change up the clinical trial model by introducing opensourcing to the picture. The idea here is to create “more patient-centric, transparent and dramatically less costly clinical development,” the company said in a statement. The company is using digital telemonitoring and crowdsourcing to conduct a clinical trial of Auven Therapeutics’ Kiacta in patients […]
Medical detectives deal in challenging diagnoses on CrowdMed’s virtual stock market
The combined intellectual power of crowds has never been used like this before. CrowdMed’s founder and CEO, Jared Heyman spent a good part of his career studying the wisdom of crowds. So when his sister came down with a debilitating illness during her freshman year of college, the idea of crowdsourcing as a diagnostic tool […]
The art of medicine: Penn contest wants defibrillators to be more visible, accessible in Philly public spots
A public health design challenge wants to increase awareness of automated external defibrillators. Penn Medicine and University of Pennsylvania have kicked off the contest to help bystanders intervene for sudden cardiac arrest victims to increase their chances of survival. The Defibrillator Design Challenge is looking for designs that combine art and also maintain easy access […]
Crowdsourcing for clinical trial design takes on prostate cancer using diabetes drug
It’s been more than a year since Transparency Life Sciences launched a platform to crowdsource clinical trial design ideas. Its latest project involves using diabetes drug Metformin to treat prostate cancer — a condition that’s one of the top five leading causes of cancer deaths, according to the World Health Organization. The approach to applying […]