Creating context: Making sense of geo-location and social media data for health

Patricia Williams

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-266-0-149

Creating context: Making sense of geo-location and social media data for health

Patricia Williams

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Abstract

Information that is persistently collected, unrelated to direct clinical care may be a Pandora's Box for health improvement and monitoring. The use and linkage of disparate data sources, particularly those relating to geo-location and social media present enormous opportunities and challenges for healthcare. To date these sources have been difficult to harness and make sense of, yet they are now beginning to be exploited. It is the innovation in analytic methodology that may hold the key if the issues that may confound the results can be addressed. These issues are encompassed in privacy, and with the scientific quality and completeness of the data. The future for alternative application of geo-location and social media data is here and now, and if they can be harnessed carefully, healthcare may be the biggest beneficiary.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Health Informatics
Subtitle of host publication	Digital Health Service Delivery - The Future is Now! - Selected Papers from the 21st Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2013
Publisher	IOS PRESS
Pages	149-154
Number of pages	6
Volume	188
ISBN (Print)	9781614992653
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-266-0-149
Publication status	Published - 2013

Publication series

Name	Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume	188
ISSN (Print)	0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)	1879-8365

Keywords

data collection
medical informatics applications
mobile phone
public health informatics
social media

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Williams, P. (2013). Creating context: Making sense of geo-location and social media data for health. In Health Informatics: Digital Health Service Delivery - The Future is Now! - Selected Papers from the 21st Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2013 (Vol. 188, pp. 149-154). (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; Vol. 188). IOS PRESS. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-266-0-149

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Williams P. Creating context: Making sense of geo-location and social media data for health. In Health Informatics: Digital Health Service Delivery - The Future is Now! - Selected Papers from the 21st Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2013. Vol. 188. IOS PRESS. 2013. p. 149-154. (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-266-0-149

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