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Social Media as a New Vital Sign: Commentary
Mobile technologies, such as wireless glucometers and mobile health apps, are increasingly being integrated into health and medical care. Because patients openly share real-time information about their health behaviors and outcomes on social media, social media data may also be used as a tool for mo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5976492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29712631 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.8563 |
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description | Mobile technologies, such as wireless glucometers and mobile health apps, are increasingly being integrated into health and medical care. Because patients openly share real-time information about their health behaviors and outcomes on social media, social media data may also be used as a tool for monitoring patient care. This commentary describes how recent advances in computer science, psychology, and medicine enable social media data to become a new health “vital sign,” as well as actionable steps that public health officials, health systems, and clinics can take to integrate social data into both public and population health as well as into individual patient care. Barriers that first need to be addressed, including privacy concerns, legal and ethical responsibilities, and infrastructure support, are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-59764922018-06-01 Social Media as a New Vital Sign: Commentary Young, Sean D J Med Internet Res Viewpoint Mobile technologies, such as wireless glucometers and mobile health apps, are increasingly being integrated into health and medical care. Because patients openly share real-time information about their health behaviors and outcomes on social media, social media data may also be used as a tool for monitoring patient care. This commentary describes how recent advances in computer science, psychology, and medicine enable social media data to become a new health “vital sign,” as well as actionable steps that public health officials, health systems, and clinics can take to integrate social data into both public and population health as well as into individual patient care. Barriers that first need to be addressed, including privacy concerns, legal and ethical responsibilities, and infrastructure support, are discussed. JMIR Publications 2018-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5976492/ /pubmed/29712631 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.8563 Text en ©Sean D Young. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 30.04.2018. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Viewpoint Young, Sean D Social Media as a New Vital Sign: Commentary |
title | Social Media as a New Vital Sign: Commentary |
title_full | Social Media as a New Vital Sign: Commentary |
title_fullStr | Social Media as a New Vital Sign: Commentary |
title_full_unstemmed | Social Media as a New Vital Sign: Commentary |
title_short | Social Media as a New Vital Sign: Commentary |
title_sort | social media as a new vital sign: commentary |
topic | Viewpoint |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5976492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29712631 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.8563 |
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