Patient data as medical facts: Social media practices as a foundation for medical knowledge creation

Information Systems Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 817-833

  Kallinikos, Jannis ^a   Tempini, Niccolò ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computation; Medical knowledge; Medical practice; Networking; Patient participation; Social data; Social media

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; METALS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NETWORKING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL DATUM; SOCIAL MEDIA;

MEDICAL EDUCATION;

EID: 84923312450     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2014.0544     Document Type: Article

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