The power of knowledge sharing across question-and-answer platforms, a medical site model
The power of knowledge sharing across question-and-answer platforms, a medical site model
Knowledge is power, a phrase we have heard a lot, but knowledge needs appropriate tools to be extracted from reliable sources, and delivered to every hungry.
A few years ago, a specific type of digital platform emerged , namely, specialized questions and answers ( for example, Google answers ). The forums, which are still struggling for life, are specialized forums, as to how and why this has been exposed in a previous article .
The idea of question and answer platforms is really successful, and it has a need on the human level in general. The problems in people's lives do not end, and the questions do not cease to appear. The nature of the human mind is the question. Whoever asks the question gets the answer;
If you happen to be experiencing a health problem and try to find answers to your problem in cyberspace, there is a high probability that you came across one of the pages of the medical website during your search. More than one doctor specializing in the same field, and you have got the benefit, albeit small, and information is difficult to find in the Internet space, because it is accurate specialized information, describing a particular problem.
Medical site is one of the leading medical sites in the field, it is one of the sites that contribute effectively in the field of medical content industry, not the only one of course, there are other sites that publish reliable medical content, such as:
And other sites
I have benefited and continue to benefit from the medical content published in those sites. Whenever one of my relatives becomes infected or has a certain disease or symptoms appear, but find me looking for the topic and read and read more and more, has increased my awareness of many medical aspects during the past years Because of those sites and others who publish trusted medical content.
But what distinguishes the medical site that you may find answers to questions in your head, answers provided by specialized doctors, since the site contains a portal specialized questions and answers, but the answers do not come from ordinary people, and it is not available for anyone to contribute to give answers, Only doctors who are reliably registered in the platform, doctors from all over the Arab world have registered and volunteered to answer questions from patients or askers.
Any user can ask a question via a special page on the site, and then wait 24 hours until it is often answered, one of the participating doctors may answer it, especially if it is within the scope of specialization, and then the question and answer will be published for the benefit of all Internet surfers, Up via search engines.
The answers are often brief, and may not be enough to diagnose the situation and give a solution.
The most important thing is that the answer is attached to the name and image of the doctor, as well as his medical specialty, and when clicking on the name will go to the user's own page on the site, and more information about the doctor and his qualifications, and hence that answer becomes a source of reference, who said it is not Just an anonymous Internet user, but someone specializing in the same field of disease, and here lies the strength.
There are 33 thousand doctors registered in the medical directory so far (according to the statistics of the site), and these are the right to answer queries and questions, and the number of queries answered has approached one million (922 thousand exactly according to the statistics of the site), and this The figure is not insignificant.
Balanced system
Building a digital system for sharing knowledge and answering questions in an area is very easy, but the difficulty is to persuade specialists to answer those questions for free.
There are many platforms that offer a fee-based consulting service, some of which are free of charge but within a limited framework, either through a small, highly specialized team (eg psychiatric) or by allowing others to answer these queries without ascertaining their experience in the field. Forums, for example: the site of the seventh day published a list of some of the sites that provide counseling service on the side of mental illness.
But the tendon on which (medical) played is in progress mutually beneficial, the doctor involved in answering questions, benefit by marketing himself and published his name among patients, and even published his clinic address and phone numbers that are saved in his profile, and recently added the medical booking service Through the site, when the doctor answers the question appears in front of his name icon (booking) and through which the patient can book it initially, I do not know how the mechanism is done, but at least the platform can be a link between the doctor and the patient.
Apply the idea at a wider scale
What we need is to apply this idea to wider scales, to find platforms that are specialized in other areas, and it is important that the answers come from specialists in the same field.
To achieve this goal, two things must be available: one is a mechanism for verifying specialists who will answer in the specific field, and the other is a strong incentive system based on the principle of mutual profit that the site finds a mechanism to reward those specialists, even morally.
Today, the content is large, whether textual or even visible (for example, via the YouTube platform), but how many of the superficial content is provided by non-specialized people who are interested in views and profits, especially those utopian channels that break down everything, choose topics Hot content gathers information from the Internet space and then reproduces it with a consumer voice and monotonous boring, but the original content related to people with expertise and specialization, it is still few, and it needs more attention to bring it out in an attractive way to be able to compete with what non-specialists, and we are here We invite ourselves and those who are interested in manufacturing a The content (which leads to the creation of consciousness), whether individuals or institutions, to look at this subject with some reflection, perhaps an idea emerges and turns into a product that benefits millions.
Finally, we return from where we started, and we repeat that knowledge is power, and how much we need in this age to possess power and emerge from the cycle of weakness, in order to contribute - with others - to build the building blocks of human civilization.
