The Impact of an Online Crowdsourcing Diagnostic Tool on Health Care Utilization: A Case Study Using a Novel Approach to Retrospective Claims Analysis.

Jessie L Juusola Thomas R Quisel Luca Foschini Joseph A Ladapo

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2016)

This study employed technology-enabled methods to demonstrate that patients who used CrowdMed had lower health care utilization after case resolution. However, since the final sample size was limited, results should be interpreted as a case study. Despite this limitation, the statistically significant results suggest that online crowdsourcing shows promise as an efficient method of solving difficult medical cases.

Keyphrases

healthcare
health information
social media
health insurance
big data
deep learning