Social support research proliferated across multiple disciplines for more than a half century.
This growth, as well as disciplinary differences, resulted in mixed views, conceptualizations …

While traditional organizations create value within the boundaries of their firm or supply
chain, digital platforms leverage and orchestrate a platform-mediated ecosystem to create …

Chronic diseases (such as diabetes, asthma, heart disease, lung disease, cancer,
depression, stroke, hypertension, and Alzheimer's) are responsible for seven out of ten …

In the online health community, the doctor-patient interaction is one of the most important
functional modules. A large volume of unstructured text data has been generated in the …

Community members become part of the value chain, and their value co-creation behaviors
have progressively elicited extensive attention from scholars and practitioners. However, the …

Health care consumers and patients are increasingly using online health communities
(OHCs) to exchange social support and enhance their well-being. The success of OHCs in …

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has reiterated the importance of using ICTs not only for
ensuring continuity of employee work and but also for facilitating innovation. However …

Online platforms enable physicians to share health and medical information with the public;
however, little research has been conducted to explore why physicians share free health …

This research examines physician-driven online health communities (OHC), a social media
application in healthcare that engages both patients and physicians. Drawing on the" patient …

Abstract In situations when Information Systems (IS) do not work as intended, using IS might
hinder their users and let them perceive technostress; this then comes along with reduced …