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 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.