Table 5.

Design opportunities to facilitate patient-expertise sharing

Type of support	Design feature
Collaboratively managing shared resources	Common space to share and interact with varied resources
	User-generated tags and folksonomies that are meaningful to patients
	Methods for rating and recommending tailored resources
	Narrative and template formats for sharing experiences and expertise
Locating patient expertise	Detailed user profiles that illustrate areas of experience and expertise
	Methods for people finding and matchmaking
	Analytic tools for identifying topics of interest from user contributions
Safeguarding against misinformation	Features that preserve natural safeguarding strategies in a public context
	Change log to provide audit trail of corrections to content
	Vetting features to note affirmation, rebuttal, or reference sources