In particular, a new report shows that Twitter provided an early account of the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti. According to the study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Internet news and social media were faster transmitters of information in tracking the cholera epidemic in Haiti than health officials. The tweets provided information that health officials wouldn’t report until two weeks later.
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Twitter is raw, real-time data. I’m surprised that companies, marketing firms, and even health researchers aren’t...
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こういうのを医療安全管理に利用する手はあるな。
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Example of Internet making Industrial Age Institutions irrelevant.
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