Tag: Jared Heyman
CrowdMed Blog Topic: Jared Heyman
Here are some CrowdMed Blog posts by CrowdMed’s founder and CEO Jared Heyman who was inspired to create CrowdMed after watching his sister go through three years suffering from a rare undiagnosed illness.
“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 […]
Read MoreCrowdsourcing 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 […]
Read MoreActor Announces Investment in Crowdsourced Medical Diagnosis Platform. Almost one in 10 Americans – and 350 million people globally – are affected by the approximately 7,000 different types of rare or difficult-to-diagnose medical conditions. With this investment, Dempsey is working with CrowdMed to help expand the platform and give an additional resource to those facing […]
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