Objective Understanding what motivates patients to seek or avoid information beyond the
medical consultation is essential for effective information provision that will be relevant to …

Purpose Prior research on the use of the internet among cancer survivors indicates a digital
divide. The online landscape and patterns of information consumption, however, have …

Public health thrives on high-quality evidence, yet acquiring meaningful data on a
population remains a central challenge of public health research and practice. Social …

Introduction: People's online activities can yield clues about their emerging health
conditions. We performed an intensive study to explore the feasibility of using anonymized …

During the recent years, a lot of debate is taken place about the evolution of Smart
Healthcare systems. Particularly, how these systems can help people improve human …

We investigate the impact of delay announcements on the coordination within hospital
networks using a combination of empirical observations and numerical experiments. We …

Objective The current study aims to explore the trend of Internet health information seeking
(IHIS) in cancer survivors and the relationship between four dimensions of digital divide (eg …

Millions of users share their experiences on social media sites, such as Twitter, which in turn
generate valuable data for public health monitoring, digital epidemiology, and other …

Search engines help people answer consequential questions. Biases in retrieved and
indexed content (eg, skew toward erroneous outcomes that represent deviations from …

Abstract Background: The Internet is a key provider of health information, but little is known
about its associations with cancer-preventive behaviors. This study investigated the …