CarePeers: Personal Health Journeys to Collective Care
In today's fragmented healthcare ecosystem, CarePeers empowers patients, providers, and collaborators to document and share care strategies that actually work. By transforming individual health journeys into structured, shareable wisdom, we're building a new type of collective intelligence that benefits everyone navigating health challenges.
Why Your Health Journey Matters
The strategies that helped you or your loved one navigate a health condition—whether combining cultural healing practices like Soo or building community knowledge like Fan—could be exactly what someone else needs right now. CarePeers provides the platform to structure this knowledge and make it discoverable for others.
Self-Service Onboarding Process
Create Your Account
- Visit carepeer.health/signup
- Enter your email and create a password
- Verify your account through the confirmation link
Define Your Role in the Care Ecosystem
- Select your primary perspective:
- Patient/Health Seeker
- Family Caregiver
- Healthcare Provider
- Community Supporter
- Select your primary perspective:
Start Documenting Your Health Navigation
- Click "Create New Health Narrative"
- Enter basic information:
- Primary health condition or focus
- Cultural background(s) and context
- Health systems navigated
- Time period of experience
Structure Your Health Wisdom Follow our guided template to document what matters most:
- Navigation Strategy: What approaches actually worked?
- System Challenges: What barriers did you overcome?
- Cultural Elements: How did background influence care choices?
- Integration Approaches: How did you combine different knowledge systems?
- Community Resources: What support networks proved valuable?
Add Spatial and Temporal Context
- Connect your health journey to locations where care was received
- Link to relevant historical or cultural contexts
- Integrate with SpatialPeers (optional) for location-specific resources
Define Sharing Parameters
- Public: Accessible to all CarePeers members
- Community: Available to those with similar conditions
- Trusted Network: Visible only to your selected care team
- Research: Anonymized for healthcare improvement initiatives
From Individual Experience to System Change
Once submitted, your health narrative becomes part of a living knowledge system:
- Validation by Networkers: Healthcare professionals provide context and verification
- Connection to Similar Journeys: Others with similar experiences can build upon your wisdom
- Integration with XQuest: Your journey can be transformed into an interactive learning experience
- Impact Tracking: See how your shared wisdom helps others navigate similar challenges
Beyond Individual Stories: Collective Health Intelligence
By sharing your journey, you're contributing to a new type of health resource that:
- Bridges traditional and innovative approaches to care
- Documents strategies that work across cultural contexts
- Creates actionable guidance for others facing similar challenges
- Builds evidence for system-level improvements
Together, we're transforming healthcare from isolated encounters into a continuous learning system grounded in real patient experience.
Ready to Share Your Health Navigation Wisdom?
Join our weekly "New Member Orientation" Zoom call every Wednesday at 7pm ET where we'll walk through the process and answer any questions. Register here.
CarePeers is part of an emerging ecosystem, alongside XQuest and SpatialPeers, that's reimagining how humanity learns from collective experience to create a more empathetic, intelligent, and sustainable future for healthcare.
