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Participatory Medicine: What Is It For You?

Gilles Frydman | May 18, 2009

As the meme is now firmly accepted, I thought we ought to have another round of definition crowdsourcing. If you use the term please stop here for a minute and let us know what it means to you. I will summarize the responses and use the results to update the wikipedia page on Participatory Medicine. [...]

Crowdsourcing the Definition of Participatory Medicine

Gilles Frydman | October 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 a growing interest in Participatory Medicine and with the forthcoming Journal of Participatory [...]