An answer recommendation framework for an online cancer community forum.

Health community forums are a kind of online platform to discuss various matters related to management of illness. People are increasingly searching for answers online, particularly when they are diagnosed with cancer like life-threatening diseases. People seek suggestions or advice through these platforms to make decisions during their treatments.

Novel Approach to Cluster Patient-Generated Data Into Actionable Topics: Case Study of a Web-Based Breast Cancer Forum.

Background: The increasing use of social media and mHealth apps has generated new opportunities for health care consumers to share information about their health and well-being. Information shared through social media contains not only medical information but also valuable information about how the survivors manage disease and recovery in the context of daily life.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of acquiring and modeling the topics of a major online breast cancer support forum.

What Do They Mean by "Health Informatics"? Health Informations Posts Compared to Program Standards.

There is a lack of alignment between and within the competencies and skills required by health informatics (HI) related jobs and those present in academic curriculum frameworks. This study uses computational topic modeling for gap analysis of career needs vs. curriculum objectives.

Know thy eHealth user: Development of biopsychosocial personas from a study of older adults with heart failure.

Background: Personas are a canonical user-centered design method increasingly used in health informatics research. Personas-empirically-derived user archetypes-can be used by eHealth designers to gain a robust understanding of their target end users such as patients.

Objective: To develop biopsychosocial personas of older patients with heart failure using quantitative analysis of survey data.