Health Web Science Social Media Data for Healthcare /

• Main Author: Denecke, Kerstin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Health Information Science
• Subjects: Computer science.; Health informatics.; Computer Science.; Health Informatics.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

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 informa...

Table of Contents:

• The Medical Web and Its Authors
• Applications of Social Media in Healthcare
• Objectives and Structure of the Book
• Types of Medical Social Media
• Excursus: Content and Language in Clinical Narratives
• Content and Language in Medical Social Media
• Text analytic-Enabled Healthcare Applications: Requirements and Architecture
• Information Extraction from Medical Social Media
• Relation Extraction
• Sentiment Analysis from Medical Texts
• Social Media for Health Monitoring
• Diversity-aware Search
• Implementation obstacles
• Ethics in Health Web Science
• Integrating Clinical and Social Media Data
• Concluding Remarks
• Glossary.