Designing an Effective Social Media Platform for Health Care with Synchronous Video Communication

Young Park, Mohan Tanniru, Jiban Khuntia

2014

Abstract

Online social networks are evolving as platforms for health communication among the public, patients, and health professionals. Existing health social network based portals do not provide synchronous -video-based communication features; and are restricted to only text and picture based content sharing. Arguably, healthcare focused online social networks need video based communication for active knowledge sharing between providers and patients, peer-patients, or sharing disease related information through visual media. This study provides a technological framework and design architecture to develop a customizable online healthcare social media network that can incorporate synchronous video communication capability. The design principles and layers that support different types of functionality are described. An evaluation in the context of Rheumatology and back pain patients is underway and will not be discussed in this paper due to page constraints.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Park Y., Tanniru M. and Khuntia J. (2014). Designing an Effective Social Media Platform for Health Care with Synchronous Video Communication . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-010-9, pages 434-441. DOI: 10.5220/0004905204340441

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf14,
author={Young Park and Mohan Tanniru and Jiban Khuntia},
title={Designing an Effective Social Media Platform for Health Care with Synchronous Video Communication},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={434-441},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004905204340441},
isbn={978-989-758-010-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2014)
TI - Designing an Effective Social Media Platform for Health Care with Synchronous Video Communication
SN - 978-989-758-010-9
AU - Park Y.
AU - Tanniru M.
AU - Khuntia J.
PY - 2014
SP - 434
EP - 441
DO - 10.5220/0004905204340441