Erschienen in:
20.01.2017 | Editorial
The Premise and Promise of Big Data for Tracking Population Health: Big Deal or Big Disappointment?
verfasst von:
Emad Mansoor, Sadeer G. Al-Kindi
Erschienen in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Ausgabe 3/2017
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Excerpt
It is estimated that 60% of adults in the USA search for health information online, with the majority searching for a specific disease or treatment [
1]. The patterns of these searches can provide important temporal and spatial data that reflect health indicators at the individual and the population levels. As examples, Google searches for a multitude of keywords accurately predicted influenza outbreaks in real-time [
2]; searches for specific symptoms preceded searches for terms strongly suggestive of lung cancer [
3]. …