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Smart Presentation

To get the right answer you need to ask the right question. Using a Problem- Oriented approach, checking charts and a case moderator, we make sure it is presented in a way that allows solving it quickly. From years, to days!

Intelligent Choice

Many rare disease diagnoses come from unexpected sources. To eliminate the pressure of consensus, doctors submit their diagnostic suggestion discreetly. Then we use collective intelligence and AI techniques to choose the best diagnostic suggestions for further testing.

Tailored Case Moderation

Each case has a physician Moderator supervising the entire case discussion. On top of helping with presentation and diagnostic choice, the moderator aids with applying for testing in expert medical facilities specializing in exclusive medical fields.

Diagnostic Talent

Do you have a diagnostic talent? Test your skills with real challenging cases. Win points and go up the website’s rank by solving case challenges. We scout doctors who excel at diagnosing to form an All-Star team of diagnostic experts that can offer their services to patients.

What is NDC Medicine

Neglected Diseases Collaboration (NDC) is an international network of doctors helping each other diagnose challenging cases quickly and accurately using a smart, web-based crowdsourcing method combining AI techniques. NDC Medicine platform allows physicians to present patients of all ages with unusual symptoms, discuss the case with their peers and submit diagnostic suggestions. NDC Medicine also helps to connect with expert medical centers to test the best diagnostic suggestions, and scouts for diagnostic talents.

How to present a medical mystery online in a way that allows solving it? That is the question

“To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?”

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there

The presentation of solved cases as a teaching tool is structurally the same but principally different from presenting unsolved cases. Why?

Delay in the diagnostic process of rare diseases- lack of knowledge or lacking method?

The route of the diagnostic delay problem lies in the diagnostic approach dominating the contemporary health systems, and guiding physicians throughout their career. Or as the famous saying describes it best: "If you hear the hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras".

Delayed diagnostic process shortens the lifespan of rare disease patients

Acceleration of the diagnostic process is the key to changing the way we look at orphan diseases. A remarkable example of how the diagnostic delay in rare diseases impacts life expectancy can be found in Fabry Disease.

Les Misérables: Orphan diseases from an epidemiological point of view

I could not ignore the epidemiological aspect of rare diseases, which is not usually the focus of physicians and researchers. I believe that some problems that are concerning the medical world regarding the rare diseases field, can get unexpected solutions from epidemiology