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Peer-to-peer Healthcare: Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Obvious.

May 25, 2011 By Susannah Fox 103 Comments

Here’s my simple definition of peer-to-peer healthcare: Patients and caregivers know things — about themselves, about each other, about treatments — and they want to share what they know to help other people. Technology helps to surface and organize that knowledge to make it useful for as many people as possible. An idea whose time […]

Filed Under: participatory research, peer-to-peer health care, trends & principles Tagged With: altruism, Children's Hospital Boston, Ian Eslick, Kevin Kelly, MIT Media Lab, patientslikeme, peer-to-peer healthcare, Pew Internet, Quantified Self, TuDiabetes

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