Intelligently extracting knowledge from social media has recently attracted great interest from
the Biomedical and Health Informatics community to simultaneously improve healthcare …

With the rapid development of the Internet, more and more users utilize health communities
(known as forums) to find health-related information, share their medical stories and …

Recently, health social media have engaged more and more people to share their personal
feelings, opinions, and experience in the context of health informatics, which has drawn …

This paper describes topics pertaining to the session,“Social Media Mining for Public Health
Monitoring and Surveillance,” at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2016. In …

Background Health care social media used for health information exchange and emotional
communication involves different types of users, including patients, caregivers, and health …

This special section of" Trends & Controversies" focuses on social media analytics for smart
health. The introduction, called" Social Media Analytics for Smart Health," is provided by …

Positive patient experience is crucial for retaining patient loyalty and in understanding and
acting upon limitations of the treatment or service provided. Online platforms, such as …

This paper gives an insight on how to use big data analytics for developing effective health
recommendation engine by analyzing multi structured healthcare data. Evidence-based …

Background Mental illness is quickly becoming one of the most prevalent public health
problems worldwide. Social network platforms, where users can express their emotions …

Social media data have been increasingly used to study biomedical and health-related
phenomena. From cohort-level discussions of a condition to population-level analyses of …