OrganizedWisdom of was described as "the wikipedia of healthcare" which is odd because it is not organized like a wiki.No matter, though, because I do like the way it is organized, using wisdom cards created by "human online health advocates". I used my pet search, obsessive compulsive disorder, and combed through most of the results. The resulting wisdom card is divided into categories, the first being "5 great resources". These are all actual definitions of OCD rather than simply links to other sites mentioning OCD.
Another feature I liked about OrganizedWisdom's cards is the icon system that identifies guide favorites, guide warnings and user recommended links. Points for transparency here.
The remaining categories are also useful:
- symptoms
- causes
- treatments
- holistic treatment (all of these had red "warning" triangles!!)
- survival rates
- personal wisdom and blogs
- foundations/support (some of these should have been in other categories)
- journal articles
- clinical trials
- related cards
Overall, OrganizedWisdom does as nice a job of collecting and presenting health information as any .com. It limits its social networking aspects to recommending links and invites participation in the form of information requests and a related blog. To me, this is a more pure form of social networking than the user generated content seen on sites such as RevolutionHealth.
2 comments:
Thanks so much for your thoughtful review of organizedwisdom. We love getting feedback from people so we can continue to improve and we especially love to get feedback from librarians and patient advocates. I am especially intrigued by your feedback about the guide wisdom (personal stories) because we agree this is the area where we find opinion can enter the fray most often. User generated content is an area that is becoming a real struggle with online health information because there is so much clutter out there. But we've found that it can be helpful to try and show multiple perspectives on a topic and especially quality stories from patients.
If you have any other suggestions please let us know and thank you again for featuring us on your blog. Perhaps you want to join our team as one of our Expert Health Guides! We have a big mission to accomplish and as they say it takes a village....
I should have mentioned in my previous comment that my name is Unity Stoakes, one of the co-founders of OrganizedWisdom.com
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