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Crowdsourced Health - How What You Do on the Internet Will Improve Medicine (Hardcover)
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Crowdsourced Health - How What You Do on the Internet Will Improve Medicine (Hardcover)
Series: The MIT Press
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How data from our health-related Internet searches can lead to
discoveries about diseases and symptoms and help patients deal with
diagnoses. Most of us have gone online to search for information
about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is
this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients?
Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew survey reports more than 80
percent of American Internet users have logged on to ask questions
like these. But what if the digital traces left by our searches
could show doctors and medical researchers something new and
interesting? What if the 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 track to side effects of
prescription drugs, 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. He explains why
people go to the Internet with health questions; for one thing, it
seems to be a safe place to ask anonymously about such matters as
obesity, sex, and pregnancy. He describes in detrimental effects of
"pro-anorexia" online content; tells how computer scientists can
scour search engine data to improve public health by, for example,
identifying risk factors for disease and centers of contagion; and
tells how analyses of how people deal with upsetting diagnoses help
doctors to treat patients and patients to understand their
conditions.
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