The Abzooba Smart Health Informatics Platform (SHIP) TM - From Patient Experiences to Big Data to Insights
This work addresses the need for personalized health insights from social media data, but it is incremental as it builds on existing big data and natural language processing techniques without claiming major breakthroughs.
The paper tackles the problem of connecting patients to relevant health information by developing a platform that extracts concepts from health social media forums to match patients with similar experiences, aiming to provide new tools for outcomes research.
This paper describes a technology to connect patients to information in the experiences of other patients by using the power of structured big data. The approach, implemented in the Abzooba Smart Health Informatics Platform (SHIP),is to distill concepts of facts and expressions from conversations and discussions in health social media forums, and use those distilled concepts in connecting patients to experiences and insights that are highly relevant to them in particular. We envision our work, in progress, to provide new and effective tools to exploit the richness of content in social media in health for outcomes research.