The Problem
Medical and health sciences knowledge today is trapped behind gatekeepers. Access limitations, institutional silos, and gaps between research and application create information asymmetries that undermine trust and limit potential for improved health outcomes.
Peer-reviewed research and knowledge often sits locked behind paywalls. Clinical guidelines flow through institutional hierarchies. Patient experiences remain isolated from research communities. Expert insights get filtered through bureaucratic channels that prioritize control over learning.
We believe medical and health sciences knowledge should flow more freely, evolve through open dialogue, and remain accessible to all who seek to understand health and healing.
We're building an additional path way for discourse, educational content and research funding that coexists with existing processes.
Our Innovation
MedSchlr builds competing curation networks for medical and health sciences knowledge instead of relying on centralized gatekeepers. Rather than single authorities controlling information flow, we enable multiple quality systems to compete for user trust. Professional networks can maintain strict evidence standards while patient communities focus on practical insights. Academic networks emphasize rigorous peer review while specialty groups bring domain expertise. Users choose networks matching their needs while all maintain transparency and accountability.
Direct Patient-Researcher Funding: Bitcoin/Lightning enables new funding pathways that bypass traditional gatekeepers. Communities could directly fund research they care about. Patients could pool micropayments to support studies on neglected topics. Individuals could contribute directly to researchers investigating conditions that affect them.
This changes incentives. Researchers respond to patient priorities rather than institutional agendas. Contributors get acknowledged in research outputs. Communities with shared interests can organize around their own research needs.
Bioethical Foundation
Our approach rests on established bioethical principles: respect for human autonomy where individuals make their own informed health decisions, beneficence through actively promoting well-being via knowledge sharing, non-maleficence by providing pathways for learning rather than medical advice, justice through equitable access to knowledge regardless of background or resources, and respect of persons by honoring diverse perspectives and experiences.
Technical Foundation
Built on Nostr and Alexandria for censorship resistance and decentralized knowledge sharing.
Bitcoin/Lightning integration enables: - Direct micropayments from patients to researchers - Community crowdfunding for studies - Contributor acknowledgements and compensation +
- Value-for-value economics without institutional gatekeepers
Open protocols ensure no single entity controls access or standards.
What We're Building
Patient-Led Research: Direct funding pathways where patients support research they care about. Community protocol development for chronic conditions. Rigorous case studies led by those who live the experience.
Educational Advancements: Living textbooks that evolve with current research. Direct student-expert interaction across geographic boundaries. Knowledge that flows between disciplines without bureaucratic barriers.
Professional Liberation: Spaces where healthcare professionals can discuss study limitations openly, share insights across specialties, and participate in evidence evaluation without traditional institutional constraints.
Prevention Focus: Platforms that actively promote nutritional science, lifestyle medicine, environmental health factors, and evidence-based prevention strategies often missing from treatment-focused institutions.
Join Us
Healthcare systems emphasize treatment over prevention, but we're building infrastructure where knowledge about nutritional science, environmental health factors, social determinants of disease, and evidence-based prevention strategies can flourish alongside traditional medical research.
Whether you're managing chronic conditions, working to maintain or improve your health, or are generally curious and want to participate in community discussions, we're building this for you. We need patients creating pathways for community-driven research, professionals sharing insights across specialties, researchers exploring direct community funding, students transforming how they learn, and everyone who believes medical knowledge should serve human flourishing rather than institutional control.
No gatekeepers, no institutional capture, no single points of failure. Come help us figure out what works.
MedSchlr Community
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