Medic-Us: Advanced social networking for intelligent medical services and diagnosis

Abstract

Health services are on the top priorities for society, but up to now we have failed in make it universal all around the world. Nowadays information technologies, especially social networks have demonstrated its usefulness in different areas. This article describes the design and development of a social network platform focused on the physician-patient and physician-physician interactions, in order to achieve better and faster diagnosis. Like other social networks or social media tools, it focusses on the collaboration among its members. This collaboration is improved with the help of paradigms as Collaborative Intelligence and Wisdom of the Crowd. We called this platform Medic-Us high-lighting the collaborative practice among the practitioners, and the interaction with patients. This document describes the different modules of Medic-Us, the social network environment, medical consult service, information retrieval, and a trainer module for the medicine students.