Analysis of Twitter posts predicted postpartum depression with up to 80% accuracy using a mathematical model based on factors such as volume of activity, ego-centric network characteristics, emotion, and linguistic styles.
(via Predicting Postpartum Changes in Emotion and Behavior via Social Media | Follow the Crowd)
Mobility is a big part of the solution for healthcare innovators:
Via Fast Company, The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Health Care | Most Innovative Companies 2013 ,
Better medicine, brought to you by big data — Cloud Computing News
Slowly but surely, health care is becoming a killer app for big data. Whether it’s Hadoop, machine learning, natural-language processing or some other technique, folks in the worlds of medicine and hospital administration understand that new types of data analysis are the key to helping them take their fields to the next level.
Social media can enable assistance for the elderly to be expanded into a ‘team’ so that children and nearest neighbours can play a part as well as municipal or private services. A person who has suffered a fall is often in pain and may be in shock. If the alarm is sent to many, help can get there quicker. This is vital both to the person who has suffered the fall, and their family.’ Via medicalxpress.com
Physicians in India and Brazil are most open to using social networking sites while Italy and France lag. The Internet is an important source of information for healthcare professionals in emerging and established markets. However, the study results show that physicians in Italy and France are by far the most conservative when it comes to using public social media sites, medical community sites or the Internet for professional networking, Via CSD - MarketWatch
Social media in health care create risks, benefits. Nearly 90 percent of physicians use a social-media website for personal use, and 67 percent use it professionally, according to a survey of 4,000 physicians by QuantiaMD, an online forum for doctors. Because federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets boundaries on the ways health care providers use and disclose information that identifies patients — healthcare providers using social media need to take extra measures to protect patient privacy. Via SFGate. Image source
A Facebook for Patients: IBM’s Medical Social Network Gets an Upgrade
Source: Fast Company
IBM has a long-standing commitment to health care and global health. This week the company revamped its “patient portal.” Dubbed the IBM Patient Empowerment System, it now acts like a social network for participating patients. Especially intriguing here is the interactive nature of the Patient Empowerment System—if a person has an urgent question about the interaction of two drugs, the system will cross check his or her medical records and background and warn yes or no to taking a particular medicine. It also allows patients to log in, update their profiles with prescription information, symptom complaints, blood pressure readings, and to find other patients struggling with similar illnesses or diseases. A patient can send a message to other patients and ask questions about certain medications or offer advice from personal experience. “Most patients do not have the same access to information available to physicians, such as treatment updates or new warnings from the FDA,” said Joseph Jasinski, IBM Research. “And physicians are not always privy to ongoing patient updates, such as eating habits or long-term monitoring of vital signs. These partial pictures limit the level of care that physicians can provide, as well as the care patients can provide for themselves. The IBM Patient Empowerment System merges these realms, bringing important data to both parties.”
Why More Health Experts Are Embracing The Social Web | Mashable
With nearly 90% of online Americans searching the Internet for health resources, it’s likely you and your friends and family already use the Internet to research health issues. It’s true that the web has a jumble of health information, and engaging online takes time, which most health experts don’t have. The good news, however, is that the increasing number of health professionals now embracing the Internet as an important and useful tool for health and wellness is beginning to change your options as a consumer. Read on for some ways that social media can help doctors, health experts and everyday users.
