Name: Crowdsource your health
Uploaded: 2012-02-15T16:07:52Z
Duration: 5 min 55 s
Description: You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local AEDs.

You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local AEDs.

Crowdsource your health

Efforts to digitize health care often miss the mark by ignoring patient voices, leading many projects to fail. In one example, a simple digital weight scale shared data directly with a doctor and over 4,000 Twitter followers, creating peer accountability in real time. By crowdsourcing a nationwide map of over 10,000 defibrillators, communities gained life-saving knowledge that was previously hidden. Real progress comes when patients participate, not just as data points, but as partners.

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