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The Potential of Crowdsourcing in the Health Care Industry
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Author(s):
Kaushik Ghosh (Lamar University, USA)and Kabir C. Sen (Lamar University, USA)
Copyright:
2017
Pages:
10
Source title:
Handbook of Research on Healthcare Administration and Management
Source Author(s)/Editor(s):
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
(Epworth HealthCare, Australia & Deakin University, Australia)
DOI:
10.4018/978-1-5225-0920-2.ch024
Keywords:
Health Information Systems
/
Medical Information Science Reference
/
Medicine & Healthcare
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Abstract
Crowdsourcing has immense potential in the health care industry as it can tap into a vast global pool of knowledge to solve a wide variety of health care problems. This chapter first categorizes the different problems in the health care industry. It then describes some existing health care services and also discusses the future challenges that a typical crowdsourcing service could face. The chapter emphasizes the potential of crowdsourcing to disrupt old ideas and introduce new ones as well as a make a significant improvement in the social quality for different population groups.
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