Overview
- Examines the impact of shared medical information on social media platforms and how it can be analyzed to benefit healthcare systems
- Differentiates between types of content and analyzes the methods in which each provides and receives medical information
- Introduces methods of analysis necessary to extract usable medical information and distinguish trends on social media platforms for healthcare purposes
- Details how to apply collected social media data to public health monitoring
- Considers the ethical, organizational and legal issues relating to the use of medical data gathered from social media
Part of the book series: Health Information Science (HIS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction
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Medical Social Media: Content, Characteristics, Appearance
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Information Discovery from Medical Social Media
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Applications
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Influence Factors
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Web Science
Book Subtitle: Social Media Data for Healthcare
Authors: Kerstin Denecke
Series Title: Health Information Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20582-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20581-6Published: 07 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35223-7Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20582-3Published: 31 August 2015
Series ISSN: 2366-0988
Series E-ISSN: 2366-0996
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 168
Number of Illustrations: 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Informatics, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Health Informatics