Dan Buckland, MedGadget
“A paper in the Christmas edition of the Danish Medical Journal attempts to ask whether we can trust our Facebook friends with providing a differential diagnosis. One of the authors, Dr. Peter Hallas, modestly asked that we take a look at his paper, so we jumped at the chance and think he should give himself and his co-authors a lot of credit for studying phenomena that are already occurring.
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Brian Wheeler, BBC News
“Sickweather claims to be different because it operates in real time using data from social networks, rather than news reports or internet search terms, and is designed for use by individuals, rather than public health officials. It has already been dubbed “Facebook for hypochondriacs”.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Dr. Brigitte Piniewski is convinced that mobile and wireless technologies can bring the kinds of improvements in population health that policymakers can only dream of. “I really think that’s where the vision is at,” she says.
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Heather Leslie, Archetypical
“The Collaboration & Verification step during the archetype development process in particular poses a particular challenge to determine appropriate quality criteria as it is performed online using the Clinical Knowledge Manager and, in the main, on a volunteer basis.
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Natasha Singer, The New York Times
“Could we cure diseases faster, or at least better control them, through crowd-sourcing?
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