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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...

Go online. Not too much. Mostly…?

by | Feb 12, 2008

Michael Pollan’s answer to diet angst is to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Is there an equivalent maxim for information angst? If not, does someone out there want to make one up? Because a new study published in Cancer argues that e-patients can take a...

Harnessing Openness

by | Feb 8, 2008

The Committee for Economic Development (CED) is an independent, non-partisan research organization with a trustee list dominated by corporations (not that there’s anything wrong with that — my own funders, the Pew Charitable Trusts, are also listed on the...

Consumer Resources

by | Feb 6, 2008

As we continue our discussion of the definitions of 2.0 and user-generated content (UGC), I thought I’d highlight some other buzzwords and link to a few consumer-oriented resources. I still trust librarians to help me judge information sources, so my first set...

Two Views on e-Patients, and the Doctors who See Them

by | Jan 15, 2008

In November 2007, Scott Haig, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and medical columnist for TIME, wrote an article for the magazine called “When the Patient is a Googler”. He described a patient of his he called Susan, whom he felt was emblematic of patients who research...

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