{"id":81193,"date":"2018-08-01T02:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T09:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/the-ordinary-people-making-medical-breakthroughs-via-crowdsourcing-solving-problems-that-have-doctors-beat"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:01:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:01:24","slug":"the-ordinary-people-making-medical-breakthroughs-via-crowdsourcing-solving-problems-that-have-doctors-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/the-ordinary-people-making-medical-breakthroughs-via-crowdsourcing-solving-problems-that-have-doctors-beat","title":{"rendered":"The ordinary people making medical breakthroughs via crowdsourcing \u2013 solving problems that have doctors beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-ordinary-people-making-medical-breakthroughs-via-crowdsourcing-solving-problems-that-have-doctors-beat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases developed the guide to help boost public health by using crowdsourcing, where a group of experts and non-experts solve a problem and then share the solution with the public.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers can get too close to their subject and a layman\u2019s intuition can achieve medical breakthroughs, as World Health Organisation crowdsourcing initiatives continue to show.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/2157627\/how-crowdsourcing-helped-find-solutions-serious-health\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/21576...ous-health<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases developed the guide to help boost public health by using crowdsourcing, where a group of experts and non-experts solve a problem and then share the solution with the public. Researchers can get too close to their subject and a layman\u2019s intuition can achieve medical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81193","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81359,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81193\/revisions\/81359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}