Leveraging cues from person-generated health data for peer matching in online communities

Conclusion Peer-matching systems in online health communities offer a promising approach for leveraging PGHD to connect patients. Our findings point to interpersonal communication cues embedded in PGHD that could prove critical for building mentoring relationships among the growing membership of online health communities.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - February 5, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Hartzler, A. L., Taylor, M. N., Park, A., Griffiths, T., Backonja, U., McDonald, D. W., Wahbeh, S., Brown, C., Pratt, W. Tags: Research and Applications Source Type: research