Crowdsourcing in Biomedicine using a Multi-use Floating Platform

Abstract

Since 2006, crowdsourcing has become a significant field that has been widely used. In biomedicine, crowdsourcing involves obtaining contributions or services from a significant community, often undefined, through an open call. In fact, crowdsourcing approaches have been used to engage the public, researchers, and clinicians in a range of activities related to research, drug discovery, patient care, and disease prevention. In emergency situations (e.g., CBRN threats) hospitals have been damaged or even destroyed. There is a need for mobile emergency medical facilities to take over the functions of those that are unusable. Even if that mobile hospitals on wheels cannot easily reach disaster-stricken regions, they are very useful. Naturally protected waterways, lakes, lagoons, etc. can be found in good time to accommodate mobile floating medical units for emergencies and for the medical care of human populations in isolated water environments. This article presents an original approach to using a patented, stabilized naval platform to carry a mobile medical unit for emergency or special needs in hard-to-reach water areas.