According to the Mayo Clinic, nearly 25 million Americans (about 1 in 3 people) suffer from an undiagnosed condition. So many patients get referred from doctor to doctor without actually getting the diagnosis that they deserve. When you are not able to get the help that you need, the options may feel very limited. […]
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CrowdMed Blog Topic: Crowdsourcing
Here are all CrowdMed Blog posts on the topic of crowdsourcing which, in our approach to diagnosing medical conditions, involves leveraging a global interdisciplinary community of thousands of people with diverse medical credentials or first-hand patient experience with thousands of rare medical issues, to help undiagnosed patients more quickly get the answer they seek.
When patient Lenard* was a medical student, he noticed a lesion on his shin that at first glance appeared to be dry skin. Unlike dry skin, though, this condition proved to be anything, but temporary and persisted for months.
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When searching for a cure for an uncommon disease, doctors and medical detectives are confronted with a difficult knowledge problem. The correct answer is out there, but it’s likely known only to a handful of people, dispersed among a lot of people who haven’t a clue, or worse, have the incorrect diagnosis. How can we […]
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Is diagnosing ourselves on the internet a safe practice? Are Google and Facebook the places we should turn to when finding out what ails us? We investigate.
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“My son feels like an old man. He suffers from constant, debilitating fatigue, painful body aches… he feels like he’s dying.” Those are the words of a desperate mother. Her son Joseph had always been an active and athletic child, but starting at the age of 12, his health began to deteriorate inexplicably. Over the […]
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Crowdsourcing as a Medical Tool: Interview with CrowdMed CEO Jared Heyman. CrowdMed is an online medical crowdsourcing platform where people submit medical cases with information about symptoms, medical history, family history, and other pertinent data. Subsequently, the community of “medical detectives” suggests diagnoses and places point bets on the outcomes they think are most likely. CrowdMed’s […]
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1. Crowdsourcing can help solve even the most difficult medical cases. Not even the famous (and fictional) Dr. House M.D. can know everything about every one of the more than 13,000 known medical conditions, diseases and disorders. At the same time, public web forums can turn even the most rational person into a total hypochondriac. […]
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Doctor-to-be Neil Dubey ponders healthcare innovation, internet-empowered patients, and what it all means for the future of medicine. As long as the Internet exists, patients will utilize it. Doctors have a unique opportunity to embrace and help shape the future of health, while engaging with patients who now have access to a world of open […]
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Healthcare is costly, but it’s no easy task trying to reduce costs without compromising care. One answer might be found in the wisdom of the crowd, or in crowdsourced medical diagnosis which is already helping doctors, patients and healthcare providers more quickly identify many conditions that would otherwise take months or years to figure out.
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CrowdMed helps people get answers to medical symptoms that have eluded diagnosis for months or even years. We recently gathered a list of the medical conditions, diseases and genetic disorders most frequently suggested by our global network of crowdsourced “Medical Detectives” – experts in medicine, science, healthcare, education and research who review patient cases submitted […]
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