User Generated Healthcare
My idea would dramatically improve the health care system by speeding the process of diagnosis, reducing unnecessary testing, more quickly identifying effective courses of treatment and radically reducing the costs associated with the entirety of it all. I call it User Generated Health Care. It works as follows:
* You visit the doctor as the result of an unknown problem with your health, or the health of a family member.
* The doctor asks you an initial set of questions.
* Based on your answers, the doctor loads a specific set of questions onto a mobile device, which you take home.
* The device prompts you at specific intervals or times of day to answer a few short questions, documenting diet, medication, mood, sleep, and overall wellness.
* The device prompts you weekly to answer a more extensive questionnaire - explaining your overall impression of how a specific course of treatment is working, documenting symptoms and side-effects and ranking your overall state of health.
* You return to the doctor, who has already analyzed the aggregated data you have provided. Because this data is digital, data analysts could examine the data for statistical correlations that would yield actionable information for doctors and medical professionals to present to you.
* You talk to the doctor about the next 6 weeks and what you will do, instead of the last 6 weeks and your vague recollection of what you did.
* Your conversation includes charts, graphs, and statistics about the information you provided.
* You are given another course of treatment (or kept on the same) based on the careful analysis of factual data.
This would provide measurable data to improve diagnosis. Information could be aggregated across groups to look for overall trends - helping to yield further insights. This data could alert us of new diseases, yield medical breakthroughs, and speed development of new medical techniques. Support User Generated Health Care.
Submitted By:
- David Bowman