Linking Physicians to Medical Research Results via Knowledge Graph Embeddings and Twitter
This addresses the need for timely dissemination of medical research to healthcare professionals, potentially improving patient care, but it is incremental as it applies an existing method to a new domain.
The study tackled the problem of informing physicians about the latest medical research by linking them to breakthroughs shared on Twitter using Multi Distance Knowledge Graph Embeddings (MDE), enabling professionals with dedicated accounts to stay updated on new findings in their field.
Informing professionals about the latest research results in their field is a particularly important task in the field of health care, since any development in this field directly improves the health status of the patients. Meanwhile, social media is an infrastructure that allows public instant sharing of information, thus it has recently become popular in medical applications. In this study, we apply Multi Distance Knowledge Graph Embeddings (MDE) to link physicians and surgeons to the latest medical breakthroughs that are shared as the research results on Twitter. Our study shows that using this method physicians can be informed about the new findings in their field given that they have an account dedicated to their profession.