Medic-Us an Intelligent Social Network for Medical Services

Health services are on the top priorities for society, but up to now we have fail in make it universal all around the world. Nowadays information technologies, specially social networks have demonstrated its usefulness in different areas. This article describes the design and development of a social network platform focused on the physician-patient and physician-physician interactions, in order to achieve better and faster diagnosis. Like other social networks or social media tools, it focus on the collaboration among its members. This collaboration is improved with the help of paradigms as Collaborative Intelligence and Wisdom of the Crowd. We called this platform Medic-Us highlighting the collaborative practice among the practitioners, and the interaction with patients. This document describes the different modules of Medic-Us, the social network environment, medical consult service, information retrieval, and a trainer module for the medicine students.