Integrating smart health in the us health care system: Infodemiology study of asthma monitoring in the google era

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Mavragani, Amaryllis ^c   Sampri, Alexia ^c   Sypsa, Karla ^a   Tsagarakis, Konstantinos P ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asthma; Big data; Forecasting; Google trends; Health care; Health informatics; Internet behavior; Nowcasting; Online behavior; Smart health

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047247936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.8726     Document Type: Article

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