Question

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using crowd sourced social media data for congestive heart failure?

Answer 1

Crowd sourced mass media is the process of having large group including experts and non experts solve a problem and then share the solution with public.

It is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than traditional employees or supplies online crowd sourcing.

Advantages of using crowd sourced media for Congestive heart failure :

• Huge coverage of people
• It helps people to get involved and clarify doubts
• The audience can be encouraged to participate in asking questions regarding risk factors, clinical manifestation and treatment of CHF
• They will gain knowledge regarding CHF
• They can also give their feedback about the teaching.
• Participants can be encouraged through incentives.
• Save time and energy
• Tend to have higher propability of success

Disadvantages :

• It can be reached only to online community
• It can lead to misidentification of good hospital
• Confidentiality is comprised
• Sometimes can lead to Language barrier
• Not all would be able to clarify the doubts
• Communication between the group can be difficult because of time.