Crowdsourcing Radiology Reads
Outrageous it may sound but the thought has been around on the web for some time now. There are some people who are of opinion that Image interpretation is one aspect of medicine that may sometime be read by collective intelligence. Have seen patients in the past who have some uncommon disease and they have done their own research on the internet about their disease and its radiological findings, and in turn they are sometimes able to do a better job than overworked unaware radiologist. Probably this may lead to some way of crowd sourcing- may be in future we might have patients putting up their images minus the identification on this crowd sourcing portal and have everybody comment on the images, they may other patients with similar diseases, Doctors, radiologists in other countries and help them reach to final conclusions. Something like Wikipedia versus Peer review journals, i rely more on Peer reviewed material, but i find myself on wikipedia more often whenever i am looking for something and i usually get the information. I am not sure of the legal implications though and it may just become an aid to the patient’s quest for diagnosis.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you think this would happen in near future?
Crowdsourcing Radiology Reads
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Reviewed by Sumer Sethi
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011
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Sumer Sethi
Unique blend of academic excellence and entrepreneurship, heading leading firms in India- Teleradiology Providers, pioneering company providing teleradiology services and DAMS (Delhi Academy of Medical Sciences) Premier test preparation institute in India for MD/MS/MCI preparation. He has also been an invited faculty member at various conferences, including Teleradiology in IRIA 2008 and 2011, Hospital Build Middle East, Congress of the Brain Tumor Radiology in Neuro-oncology Society. Dr. Sethi is Editor-in-Chief of Internet Journal of Radiology. He has a keen interest in Web 2.0 technologies and in maintaining his famous radiology blog, which has been featured in multiple international journals.
2 comments:
a better solution would be if the radiologists themselves would post difficult cases for an online community of specialists to comment. I think this is already happening on a pay per case basis, but it would be interesting to see if an "open" approach would be sustainable...
Might be dangerous though when patients start to rely more on those diagnoses than on those of us doctors. And this might very well happen as loads of people trust everything on the internet.
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