  For what purposes are crowds being implemented in health care? Which
crowdsourcing methods are being used? This work begins to answer these
questions by reporting the early results of a systematic literature review of
110 pieces of relevant research. The results of this exploratory research in
progress reveals that collective intelligence outcomes are being generated in
three broad categories of public health care; health promotion, health
research, and health maintenance, using all three known forms of crowdsourcing.
Stemming from this fundamental analysis, some potential implications of the
research are discussed and useful future research is outlined.
