The effect of motivations on knowledge sharing behavior has been extensively investigated
in various online communities. However, this topic is rarely examined in the context of online …

An online health-care community (OHC) is a novel channel through which doctors share
medical or health-care knowledge with patients. While the sustainable development of an …

Introduction The emergence of online health communities broadens and diversifies
channels for patient-doctor interaction. Given limited medical resources, online health …

With the rapid development of Web 2.0 technologies, an increasing number of physicians
are providing services through websites that enable patients to consult with them online …

Background: Social media provides a context for billions of users to connect, express
sentiments, and provide in-the-moment status updates. Because Twitter users tend to tweet …

Online health-care communities have become increasingly popular among patients,
enabling them to connect to a large population of patients who suffer from similar health …

The use of online healthcare communities to acquire health-related information and reduce
uncertainty over illnesses is currently hampered by the lack of understanding of how health …

With the rapidly growing popularity of the delivery of health services through the Internet, it is
timely to examine online health service (OHS) diffusion from the human decision process …

When innovation projects are crowdsourced, individuals are allowed to form teams and
collaborate to develop a successful solution. In this environment, teams will be competing …

Objectives The objective is to explore the short-term effects of social encouragement on
exercise behavior in China. Study design A longitudinal observational study. Methods We …