Health Web Science: Social Media Data for Healthcare

✍ Scribed by Kerstin Denecke (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 167
• Series: Health Information Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book introduces the field of Health Web Science and presents methods for information gathering from written social media data. It explores the availability and utility of the personal medical information shared on social media platforms and determines ways to apply this largely untapped information source to healthcare systems and public health monitoring. Introducing an innovative concept for integrating social media data with clinical data, it addresses the crucial aspect of combining experiential data from social media with clinical evidence, and explores how the variety of available social media content can be analyzed and implemented. The book tackles a range of topics including social media’s role in healthcare, the gathering of shared information, and the integration of clinical and social media data. Application examples of social media for health monitoring, along with its usage in patient treatment are also provided. The book also considers the ethical and legal issues of gathering and utilizing social media data, along with the risks and challenges that must be considered when integrating social media data into healthcare choices. With an increased interest internationally in E-Health, Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0 and the recent birth of the discipline of Web Science, this book will be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners investigating this emerging topic.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
The Medical Web and Its Authors....Pages 3-5
Applications of Social Media in Healthcare....Pages 7-16
Objectives and Structure of the Book....Pages 17-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Types of Medical Social Media....Pages 25-27
Excursus: Content and Language in Clinical Narratives....Pages 29-32
Content and Language in Medical Social Media....Pages 33-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Textanalytic-Enabled Healthcare Applications: Requirements and Architecture....Pages 51-60
Information Extraction from Medical Social Media....Pages 61-73
Relation Extraction....Pages 75-81
Sentiment Analysis from Medical Texts....Pages 83-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Social Media for Health Monitoring....Pages 101-108
Diversity-Aware Search....Pages 109-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Implementation Obstacles....Pages 123-125
Ethics in Health Web Science....Pages 127-135
Integrating Clinical and Social Media Data....Pages 137-145
Concluding Remarks....Pages 147-148
Back Matter....Pages 149-168

✦ Subjects

Health Informatics; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Health Informatics