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Superheroes and rock stars at the Institute of Medicine

by | Oct 14, 2009

Update: National Cancer Policy Forum published a book based on the workshop, A Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice: A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care, which you can buy, read online for free, or download as a PDF. The discussion portion of this panel was...

Crowdsourcing the Definition of Participatory Medicine

by | Oct 15, 2008

“Crowdsourcing: the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.” Jeff Howe Or in other words Participatory Outsourcing. There is clearly...

Taxpayer Access: The NIH Public Access Policy

by | Sep 30, 2008

Every year, the U.S. federal government funds more than $29 billion in biomedical research through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The research, which inspires about 80,000 individual articles (each year), is then published in journals that only subscribers...

Wikis: Cautionary Tale 2.0

by | Jan 31, 2008

Everybody is talking about social networks, collective intelligence, wisdom of crowds, smartmobs, User Generated Content and other “2.0” terms. It almost sounds like the only recipe to create the next big idea in the medical internet is to use a few of...

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