Online communities frequently create significant economic and relational value for
community participants and beyond. It is widely accepted that the underlying source of such …

As social media attract increasing attention from executives and find varied applications in
different industries, research on the subject has been investigating the antecedents …

Obesity has been recognized as a global epidemic by WHO, followed by many empirical
evidences to prove its infectiousness. However, the inter-person spreading dynamics of …

Background Scientific and public interest in the use of the Internet for health-related
purposes has grown considerably. Concerns regarding its impact on patient–doctor …

Despite its benefits, information technology (IT) use is associated with serious negative
effects on individuals. For example, technostress and IT addiction can harm IT users' …

With the increasing dilemma of the rapid global demand for healthcare services (often in the
presence of limited resources), how to creatively allocate and use healthcare resources …

Fitness applications with social network services (SNS) have emerged for physical activity
management. However, there is little understanding of the effects of these applications on …

Mobile apps have great potential to deliver promising health-related interventions to engage
consumers and change their behaviors such as healthy eating. Currently, the interventions …

We investigate the effect of unobserved patient health status on patient readmission rates
and the impact of telehealth on patient health status. We develop a hidden Markov model to …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of social support on social capital
in mobile social networking sites. Design/methodology/approach Based on the 234 valid …