This is pretty intense for an opening line...'permanent' is never the case with anything.
Shakespeare had some intense opening lines, too. Try telling the encyclopedia industry that their pay model was not permanently destroyed by crowdsourcing. I'm comfortable with calling a successful displacement of the subscription model 'permanent'. Young doctors raised around a trustworthy free medical resource will never go back.
Who gets to decide who is 'qualified' enough to participate.
Well at first I do, along with Brad, and we're physicians. "Qualified" in this context means a medical degree, most likely an M.D. or equivalent. Yes we are inspired by the spirit of Wikipedia, but PeerAtlas is not Wikipedia, so don't get it twisted. Medical decision making and treatment is every bit as serious as the military. Wikipedia doesn't have peer review. "Peer" is literally in our name
How to you plan on separating the qualified community from the unqualified community?
By evaluating their...qualifications. We are doctors. Doctors are public figures. And again, the peer review process is a further safeguard
will each article be a true peer review from qualified individuals?
Yes.
I see that you have civilian accounts. Are they able to take part in such votes?
No.
Even sites like UpToDate tie each individual amount of CME to each article that you search for on their site. Are you implying that one could simply buy enough CME for the year and not have to read articles, takes quizzes, etc?
You can't 'buy' CME. You have to earn it through research and use of the platform, the same as with the gold standard, UpToDate. Once healthcare professionals have earned the CME, we will redeem them for ATLAS tokens.
BRAVO! This was a welcome part of the paper!
PeerAtlas anticipates a shifting focus towards the use of
AI (Artificial Intelligence).
Brad's personal interest is reducing physician error and improving outcomes though eventually introducing machine learning to medical treatment and decision making.
In the fifth century A.D., Saint Patrick cast all of the snakes out of Ireland by driving them into the sea. My personal interest, to keep our platform free from special interest dollars, is a smaller task.
Thanks for your interest in our project and all the good questions.
Colin Closser M.D.