CureTogether: Open Source Health Research.
Here’s an extremely promising online application for tracking health information of many types, particularly for people with conditions like diabetes, depression, cancer, and many, many others:
CureTogether is a place where patients and researchers work together, doing open research to find cures. Patients can start feeling better today by connecting, sharing resources, and tracking their health. It’s as private as you want it to be, it’s free, and the aggregate data is open so researchers around the world can collaborate on it. Together we can make discoveries and work toward ending suffering for millions of people living with chronic conditions.
One of the founders of CureTogether, Alexandra Carmichael, makes a great case for the project on Kevin Kelly’s “Quantified Self” weblog:
We launched in July as a way to bring patients with 3 chronic conditions together to share their symptoms and treatments with each other and contribute their data to crowdsourced health research. It quickly expanded to 148 conditions, all suggested by members. It’s amazing to me to see people checking off symptoms and treatments they’ve experienced and tried, keeping daily Twitter-like logs of their health, and starting to track basic things like weight, sleep, caloric intake, and exercise.
You can bet I’m joining this project. It will be interesting to see if I can keep up with posting to it. Visit CureTogether.
I have to say that science and Health Care are the most important things in the world, without science we are living in the dark and without healthcare, we are dead, so let us bridge the gab and open our eyes to the truth!