{"id":171,"date":"2008-09-19T04:12:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T11:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2008-09-19T04:12:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T11:12:49","slug":"open-source-health-research-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/open-source-health-research-plan","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Health Research Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open source has emerged as a powerful set of principles for solving complex problems in fields as diverse as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia\">education<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/1108326\">physical security<\/a>. With roughly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/222\/report_display.asp\">60 million Americans<\/a> suffering from a chronic health condition, traditional research <a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchamerica.org\/release_08feb4_presfy09bdgt\">progressing slowly<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalizedmedicinecoalition.org\/\">personalized medicine<\/a> on the horizon, the time is right to apply open source to health research. Advances in technology enabling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/100x-increase-in-dna-sequencing-speed.php\">cheap, massive data collection<\/a> combined with the emerging phenomena of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantifiedself.com\/\">self quantification<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crowdsourcing.com\/\">crowdsourcing<\/a> make this plan feasible today. We can all work together to cure disease, and here\u2019s how.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/curetogether.com\/blog\/open-source-health-research-plan\/\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open source has emerged as a powerful set of principles for solving complex problems in fields as diverse as education and physical security. With roughly 60 million Americans suffering from a chronic health condition, traditional research progressing slowly, and personalized medicine on the horizon, the time is right to apply open source to health research. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,7,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-biotech-medical","category-lifeboat","category-open-access","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}