Misinformation Reduction in Patient-doctor Relationships

Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE

PI: Anita Tucker,Professor, Questrom School of Business

Co-PI: Jillian Berry Jaeker, Department of Operations and Technology Management

The Challenge

While doctors are entrusted with the provision of healthcare services for the patients, in some cases wrong diagnosis has been rampant. Evidently, such cases are witnessed in healthcare systems that do not have proper checks and balances when it comes to diagnosing patient ailments. It is imperative to effectively give proper prognosis and diagnosis, but monitoring such cases is problematic if done in the traditional analogue prescription hence the need for international cloud based service.

Solution

In order to combat this challenge it is significant for patients to consult physicians who could also assess their history of sickness before prescribing drugs. Doctors, nurses, and patients to have direct communications during diagnosis, however, what is in the electronic media and online should not be believed unless diligently proven by empirical medical research to be effective. What is more that an inclusion of a cloud based data base where quality checks and diagnosis can always be reviewed by a third party is paramount.

The Process

The creation of an independent oversight will be instrumental. The independent oversight will be randomly checking the diagnosis stored on the cloud based servers for scrutiny.