Penn Medicine contest maps 1,400 lifesaving AEDs via crowdsourcing contest fueled by smart phones
LOS ANGELES – A crowdsourcing contest that sent hundreds of Philadelphians to locate and catalog the locations of AEDs throughout the nation's fifth largest city led to the identification of more than 1,400 automated external defibrillators in public places, according to a study from researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that will be presented today at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2012 (Abstract #17478). The efforts of these "citizen scientists" are expected to help provide crucial data to ensure quick ...




