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CrowdMed Helps Solve Some Of The Most Mysterious Medical Cases
Imagine you begin to experience mysterious, seemingly unrelated symptoms. Your family doctor orders tests that are inconclusive, and various treatments for the symptoms are not successful. After months go by, you are beginning to feel like you belong on an episode of House. Now imagine you could...
Online site puts you under watchful eye of strangers
Would you trust a group of anonymous strangers on the Internet to accurately diagnose your medical problems?
That question confronts every American who visits the website CrowdMed.
Launched in April 2013, CrowdMed attempts to help patients find solutions to perplexing medical problems by gathering insights from a large online community of…
Online site puts you under watchful eye of strangers
Would you trust a group of anonymous strangers on the Internet to accurately diagnose your medical problems?
That question confronts every American who visits the website CrowdMed.
Launched in April 2013, CrowdMed attempts to help patients find solutions to perplexing medical problems by gathering insights from a large online community of…
“Groups of people are much smarter than individuals”
#TEDMED2014 speaker @JaredHeyman, founder of CrowdMed, was inspired to create CrowdMed after experiencing the stress of seeing his younger sister endure a serious medical mystery that spanned more than three years. Through a savvy combination of prediction market technologies and crowdsourcing, CrowdMed expedites this process by providing patients and doctors a forum in which they can aggregate their knowledge, share diagnoses and suggest solutions.
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Crowdsoucing has become more popular than ever. The wisdom of crowds was also incredibly prominent during the aftermath of the Boston bombing, with people from around the world looking over photos from the event in an attempt to track down the bombers.
Wonderful though these things are, would you really want to trust the crowd with your health? A new start up CrowdMed aims to find out.
As with many other crowd based services, users will be rated and given points through their use of the site. These points act as a sort of virtual currency that can be bet on the correct diagnosis from a list of suggestions. These bets form the basis of a prediction market, with the suggested diagnosis rising and falling in price, just like stocks on the stock exchange. The site then uses algorithms to calculate the probability that each diagnosis is correct.
Once the crowd have arrived at their consensus, the CrowdMed site shows patients the top three suggestions, which they are then free to explore with their doctor. If the diagnosis proves correct, the doctor is encouraged to feed the results back into the site, with the participants rewarded accordingly. The results thus far look somewhat promising. As the number of users increase using the site, the owners expect accuracy to increase.
In Crowd We Trust?
The obvious question: Can a crowd of strangers with unknown amounts of medical expertise be trusted to safely and correctly diagnose baffling medical problems? CrowdMed claims that after "four years of development" it possess a patented "unique technology" specifically designed to optimize group intelligence for medical diagnostic purposes.
From its site:
Groups hold far more knowledge collectively than any individual member, no matter how brilliant. With hundreds of minds working in parallel, groups can process information much faster than individuals.
What Do Real MDs Think?
The first rule of medicine is "primum non nocere", Latin for "first, do no harm." It does not necessarily apply to the crowd. Not surprisingly, the CrowdMed approach bothers many real physicians.
I'm on the fence about it. I want to be enthusiastic, but I have concerns about it. One of my primary concerns is the numerous false positives that CrowdMed's "MDs" which stands for "Medical Detectives" might generate. I have seen many patients misled by the Web, and we as Physicians often have to un-educate them.
What do you think about crowdsourced medicine? Leave your comments below.