San Francisco-Based Website Uses Crowdsourcing To Diagnose Patients’ Illnesses
A San Francisco-based company has launched a website called CrowdMed that aims to help people diagnose their medical conditions by "crowdsourcing" health care knowledge. However, a spokesperson from the California Medical Association said that the group's members believe physicians "with the appropriate education, training, access to medical records and a physician-patient relationship are in the best position to diagnose medical conditions."
- "San Francisco Company Aims To Become the Wikipedia of Medicine" (Seipel, San Jose Mercury News, 5/4).