Pursuing insights about healthcare utilization via geocoded search queries

SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 993-996

  Yang, Shuang Hong ^a   White, Ryen W ^b   Horvitz, Eric ^b  

^a TWITTER INC   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Healthcare utilization; Mobile search; Query logs

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; HEALTHCARE UTILIZATION; INFORMATION RESOURCE; MEDICAL FACILITY; MOBILE SEARCH; POPULATION STUDIES; QUERY LOGS;

HEALTH CARE; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84883079891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2484028.2484147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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