It may not be clear to the medical
student/health professional 'users' on what exactly is their role in
solving the queries posted by the patients/their social workers here http://care.udhc.co.in/INPUT/input_directory.jsp
Perhaps if we just think of this as an exercise in utilizing our health
professional knowledge and training to 'help a patient' we may be able
to build further toward understanding this process automatically?
We are looking for evidence based as well as innovative ideas that can
go a long way to helping each and every individual patient. Perhaps we
need to think of each and every patient as a 'mini' research project
that has immediately palpable 'outcomes' in terms of positive responses
in the patient's health arising from our inputs (in the form of evidence
based innovative solutions for them)?
In every research
project there is a problem statement (the research question). In the
UDHC patient inputs we have their problem statements although
deciphering them and spelling them out i e structuring them for global
understanding is itself a major task and we are grateful to the few
students in tabula-rasa who are helping us with it.
To these
problem statements we need to offer our collective solutions using our
and the internet's evidence based knowledge base to find the optimal
solution for them based on our appreciation of the patient values. We
are even more grateful to the students who point out where we are going
wrong and how this may affect the patient values. :-)
This
process of input-processing-outputs is not a single cycle driven process
but needs multiple iterations for any given patient to reach a stable
solution (even understanding a patient's values may require multiple
input-process-output cycles). The best part of this process may be that
all these multi-cognitive iterations and hypothesis testings get
transparently recorded on a web platform that is beneficial to shared
learning?
