We Innovate: The Most Common Cause Of Medical Errors

Did you know that medical errors claim approximately 60,000 lives in Canada annually? The most common cause of these medical errors are: poor communication between patients and doctors. An improper dose of medicine perspeciped accounts for 41% of medical errors. The incorrect usage and route of drugs each accounted for 16%. About half of medical errors occur in people over 60 years old. Older people are at more of a risk because they're tend to take multiple prescriptions at once.
My idea for We Innovate involves creating a social networking site for people with disabilities, illnesses, and general health care patients. Still in the planning stage, it will be a website that will improve the communication amongst doctors, patients, and health care providers. It will be a place where patients can:
Interact with people going through the same hardships both in their hospital community, and world wide
Write their personal stories and experiences (i.e. a journal in which can be read by their doctors to better help with understanding the patient's state of well being and write more accurate prescriptions)
Share pictures and videos
Share artwork, creative poems/stories, music, etc.
Join online groups/clubs that they align with based upon their medical situation