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ConferencesAttended Medicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada) Attended Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL) Accepted AbstractsMedicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada)Study of the ePatient as a provider of health content in the Internet INTRODUCTION: Millions internet users publish information about their daily life (1) and also about their health. There is little research evidence (2) about the usefulness and trustworthiness of the Patient Generated Content (PGC) and how it could affect the doctor-patient relationship. To study these aspects we designed a web-survey for chronic patients who are actively publishing in the Internet, gathering their views as consumers and creators of PGC. METHODS: A survey was desi... Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)Fighting Irrelevant Health Videos on Youtube: a Social Network Analysis Approach Introduction: Videos are among the most common types of information resources in the Web 2.0. For example, in YouTube hundreds of users are distributing thousands of health videos in their channels. These users include hospitals, medical organizations, clinicians, individual patients, and others. Automated techniques for effectively searching health videos on YouTube remain an unmet challenge, and there are YouTube users providing health videos with dubious claims and even misleading info... Motivations and Challenges of EPatients in YouTube Many of the health videos available on the Internet are created by ePatients who are sharing their personal experiences and opinions. These videos are among the most popular ones and they are being watched by millions of health consumers. For example, the videos published by the four ePatients co-authoring this abstract have more than half million views. Although a popular phenomenon, little is known about the motivations of ePatients in YouTube and even less about their challenges. In fact, ... Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)Review of IPhone Applications for Diabetes Self-Management Background We are experiencing an increasing growth in interest for mobile health (mHealth) applications for self-management of blood glucose (SMBG). In spring 2009, we found 60 diabetes applications on iTunes for iPhone and as of February 2011 the number has grown over 400% to 260. Despite the growth, there still lacks research on diabetes mHealth applications. For example, the impact emergent technology such as social media has on further development of use cases is largely unexplored. Our... Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)Video Social Platforms Complement Medical Professionals’ Education: a Scoping Review Online video social platforms, such as YouTube®, support medical professionals’ education by rendering relevant videos easily accessible by students. According to Bennett (2011,bennett.org/hsnl/), hospital social media lists more than 500 U.S. hospitals having a channel on YouTube and these same institutions have published over 50,000 videos, many of which are for medical education. In many cases, videos are much better tools for education than traditional textbooks. A comprehensive revie... Full Paper PublicationsJournal of Medical Internet ResearchReview of Extracting Information From the Social Web for Health Personalization Features of Mobile Diabetes Applications: Review of the Literature and Analysis of Current Applications Compared Against Evidence-Based Guidelines HealthTrust: A Social Network Approach for Retrieving Online Health Videos Medicine 2.0ePatients on YouTube: Analysis of Four Experiences From the Patients' Perspective Published WithThis user's work may be related toUsers who have said they are friend/colleague of Luis Fernandez LuqueUsers who said they have met Luis Fernandez Luque |
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