title: Crowd Sourcing.
abstract: The Internet has contributed new words and slang to our daily vernacular. A few terms, such as tweeting, texting, sexting, blogging, and googling, have become common in most vocabularies and in many languages, and are now included in the dictionary. A new buzzword making the rounds in industry is crowd sourcing, which involves outsourcing an activity, task, or problem by sending it to people or groups outside a business or a practice. Crowd sourcing allows doctors and practices to tap the wisdom of many instead of relying only on the few members of their close-knit group. This article defines "crowd sourcing," offers examples, and explains how to get started with this approach that can increase your ability to finish a task or solve problems that you don't have the time or expertise to accomplish.
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Baum
mesh_terms: D000066491:Clinical Decision-Making / Q000379:methods*; D063045:Crowdsourcing; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000639:trends*; D035583:Rare Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012944:Social Support