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Scoping Review on Search Queries and Social Media for Disease Surveillance

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The threat of a global pandemic posed by outbreaks of influenza H5N1 (1997) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS, 2002), both diseases of zoonotic origin, provoked interest in improving early warning systems and reinforced the need for combining data from different sources. It led to the use of search query data from search engines such as Google and Yahoo! as an indicator of when and where influenza was occurring. This methodology has subsequently been extended to other diseases and has led to experimentation with new types of social media for disease surveillance.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

The objective of this scoping review was to formally assess the current state of knowledge regarding the use of search queries and social media for disease surveillance in order to inform future work on early detection and more effective mitigation of the effects of foodborne illness.

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Connective Tissue

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Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, a family physician and associate program director of the Duke University Family Medicine Residency Program, produces an online Population Health Daily newsletter focused on the socioeconomic determinants of health (http://paper.li/vivimbmd/1317782675).

Yesterday, one of the top stories in the newsletter was attributed to me. It dealt with a blog posting from the Canadian Pharmacists Association commenting favourably on a recent report on the social determinants of health produced by the Canadian Medical Association, the association for which I work.

Martinez-Bianchi and I do not follow each other on Twitter and I am not sure of how much overlap I have with her 964 followers. But using the paper.li tool she scooped up one of my twitter links because it concerned the focus of her newsletter – the social determinants of health.

The point is, this is not an unusual occurrence and I like to think it…

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How Social Media Is Transforming the Health Care Field

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Relationships between doctors and patients don’t stop at the office door. Prescriptions, medical records and home care instructions all involve the doctor’s office in a patient’s day-to-day management of his or her medical condition. In the age of social media, though, patients are expanding their searches for information beyond the clinic altogether. Not only do 80% of Americans search for health care information online, they’re also posing direct questions to experts on top-trafficked networks like Facebook and Twitter. This conversational shift opens up new opportunities for social media developers and storytellers – as two experts in health care social media explain here.

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Crowdsourcing—Harnessing the Masses to Advance Health and Medicine, a Systematic Review

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Crowdsourcing research allows investigators to engage thousands of people to provide either data or data analysis. However, prior work has not documented the use of crowdsourcing in health and medical research. We sought to systematically review the literature to describe the scope of crowdsourcing in health research and to create a taxonomy to characterize past uses of this methodology for health and medical research.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Thi study concluded that crowdsourcing can improve the quality, cost, and speed of a research project while engaging large segments of the public and creating novel science. Standardized guidelines are needed on crowdsourcing metrics that should be collected and reported to provide clarity and comparability in methods.

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