Some of the world’s most complex problems can only be solved by crowdsourcing. Understanding treatment effectiveness is one of them.
Most of us dealing with a chronic condition spend hours online searching for better treatments because we feel no one has properly researched which treatments will work best for people like us. We’re right: nobody’s doing it, even for the most common or serious conditions, let alone the more mundane or rarer ones. It’s just too expensive to conduct such large-scale patient interviews. The result? The treatments we get are far from being optimized for us.
Just like Wikipedia, Waze, or Kickstarter, when people come together for a common cause the result can be huge. We should be driving the research about our condition: we know how treatments affect us, and collectively we have more information than any organized research could ever gather. We can build the world’s richest and most up-to-date database for treatment effectiveness , and use it to draw the most advanced and personalized insights.
Patients dealing with different conditions share their experience in an organized survey. Our statistics engine analyzes the data, turns it into general and personalized insights, and we share it with the community. The community discusses insights and runs the ongoing research roadmap. It only takes a few dozens of people completing the survey to generate useful insights. The more people join, the deeper and more personalised the insights.
Join in at: https://www.stuffthatworks.co
