2016/06/01 by Harald Holone · 3 citations
Health Professions · Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Bubble #Computer science #Computer vision #Data science #Filter (signal processing) #Health Literacy and Information Accessibility #Internet privacy #Mechanics #Medicine #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Physics #Psychology #Social Media in Health Education
paper · doi:10.3325/cmj.2016.57.298
openalex publication_date 2016/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Search engines and social networks are increasingly used for health related inquiry by the public. The information found through search engines, or presented by social network services are typically tailored to the individual through the use of complex algorithms taking into consideration comprehensive information about the individual performing the search, often without the knowledge of the searcher. In this paper, I discuss how the technology poses challenges both for patients and clinicians, and present some ideas to mitigate these problems.