LEADER 03897nam 2200661 450 001 9910465976803321 005 20210622192002.0 010 $a0-262-33480-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000614301 035 $a(EBL)4448145 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001627822 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16370155 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001627822 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14798658 035 $a(PQKB)10374760 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001530675 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4448145 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat07580016 035 $a(IDAMS)0b000064856ff05a 035 $a(IEEE)7580016 035 $a(OCoLC)945037540$z(OCoLC)1055363271$z(OCoLC)1066687596$z(OCoLC)1081279545 035 $a(OCoLC-P)945037540 035 $a(MaCbMITP)10393 035 $a(PPN)220194092 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4448145 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11172518 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL903802 035 $a(OCoLC)945037540 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000614301 100 $a20170118d2016 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCrowdsourced health $ehow what you do on the Internet will improve medicine /$fElad Yom-Tov 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cThe MIT Press,$d[2015] 210 2$a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :$cIEEE Xplore,$d[2016] 215 $a1 online resource (155 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-262-03450-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aOur data, ourselves -- Answering the unaskable -- Anorexia : a disease online -- Questions of public health -- What patients want to know about their disease, and how information from the internet can help them. 330 $aMost of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients? Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew survey reports more than 80 percent of American Internet users have logged on to ask questions like these. But what if the digital traces left by our searches could show doctors and medical researchers something new and interesting? What if the data generated by our searches could reveal information about health that would be difficult to gather in other ways? In this book, Elad Yom-Tov argues that Internet data could change the way medical research is done, supplementing traditional tools to provide insights not otherwise available. He describes how studies of Internet searches have, among other things, already helped researchers track to side effects of prescription drugs, to understand the information needs of cancer patients and their families, and to recognize some of the causes of anorexia. Yom-Tov shows that the information collected can benefit humanity without sacrificing individual privacy. He explains why people go to the Internet with health questions; for one thing, it seems to be a safe place to ask anonymously about such matters as obesity, sex, and pregnancy. He describes in detrimental effects of "pro-anorexia" online content; tells how computer scientists can scour search engine data to improve public health by, for example, identifying risk factors for disease and centers of contagion; and tells how analyses of how people deal with upsetting diagnoses help doctors to treat patients and patients to understand their conditions. 606 $aInternet in medicine 606 $aInternet research 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aInternet in medicine. 615 0$aInternet research. 676 $a610.285 700 $aYom-Tov$b Elad$0752410 801 0$bCaBNVSL 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465976803321 996 $aCrowdsourced health$91914786 997 $aUNINA