Crowdsourced health : how what you do on the Internet will improve medicine /

Most of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients? Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew survey reports more than 80 percent of American internet users have logged on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yom-Tov, Elad (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
Temas:
Internet in medicine.
Internet research.
Social media.
Online social networks.
Data mining.
Crowdsourcing.
Data Mining
Crowdsourcing
Social Media
Internet
Biomedical Research
Internet en médecine.
Internet dans la recherche.
Médias sociaux.
Réseaux sociaux (Internet)
Exploration de données (Informatique)
Externalisation ouverte.
social media.
crowdsourcing.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
COMPUTERS > Internet > General.
Data mining
Internet in medicine
Internet research
Online social networks
Social media
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies
INFORMATION SCIENCE/General
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Most of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients? Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew survey reports more than 80 percent of American internet users have logged on to ask questions like these. But what if the digital traces left by our searches could show doctors and medical researchers something new and interesting? What if the data generated by our searches could reveal information about health that would be difficult to gather in other ways? In this book, Elad Yom-Tov argues that internet data could change the way medical research is done, supplementing traditional tools to provide insights not otherwise available.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (144 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780262334808
0262334801
9780262334815
026233481X

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