Abstract
Although new social media such as Twitter provide a “rich environment,” loaded with information, that information is “full of noise” making it “difficult to extract signals,” says John Brownstein of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. Once extracted, however, those signals provide a novel means for tracking infectious disease outbreaks in advance of formal notices while usually skirting any efforts to suppress that information, he says. Brownstein and Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London in London, United Kingdom, spoke during a plenary session, “The Use of Social Media and New Technologies in Healthcare,” convened during the 2012 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), held in San Francisco, Calif., last September.
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