Crowdsourced health
Subtitle: how what you do on the Internet will improve medicine
By: Elad Yom-Tov
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780262034500
Subjects: Internet in medicine; Social media; Internet research; Online social networks
Description: "What if the [online] 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. He describes how studies of Internet searches have, among other things, already helped researchers to track side effects of prescription driugs, to understand the information needs of cancer patients and their families, and to recognize some of the causes of anorexia. Yom-Tov shows that the information collected can benefit humanity without sacrificing individual privacy"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Our data, ourselves; title: Answering the unaskable; title: Anorexia : a disease online; title: Questions of public health; title: What patients want to know about their disease, and how information from the internet can help them.