Abstract
The pervasiveness of social media networks combined with new health monitoring devices and an increasing understanding of the importance of social influence on chronic disease has created a new situation where health can be integrated into and change our self-identity, our social relationships and our relationship with our communities both local and global, on-line and in-person to a much greater extent than in the recent past. This chapter examines some of these aspects and interactions between health technology and social media and imagines prospective scenarios for how this might impact our culture, society, politics and economics by considering both the potential benefits and the dangers inherent.
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“The Seven Things You Are Not Supposed to talk About,” This American Life, November 8, 2013. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/511/the-seven-things-youre-not-supposed-to-talk-about.
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Novo Ed, Mobile Health Without Borders, By Eric Leroux and Homero Rivas, Stanford University, Spring 2014.
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Anne Wojciki in Conversation with Joyce Ho, 2012 MedicineX Conference, Stanford, CA. http://medicinex.stanford.edu/videotalks/.
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Andrew Keen of TechCrunch interviewing author Tim Ferriss (2010): http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/13/keen-on-tim-ferriss-how-to-turn-your-body-into-a-startup-tctv/.
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Software like Carelink from Medtronic allows passive monitoring and tracking of diabetes patients’ insulin pumps and glucose monitoring system and connects with healthcare providers. http://www.medtronicdiabetes.com/treatment-and-products/carelink-personal-diabetes-software.
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“In 1975, the pharmaceuticals industry spent the equivalent of $100 million in today’s dollars for research and development of the average drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. By 1987, that figure had tripled, to $300 million. By 2005, this figure had more than quadrupled, to $1.3 billion.” http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/fda_05.htm.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb2hUEXQ8yc. Mobile Health Stanford.
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Ibid.
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“The app really taps into the insight about skiing and story-telling at the end of the day and brings into the twenty-first century with technology and sharing.” personal email from Kirsten Lynch, CMO of Vail Resorts about their application Epic Mix.
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Lauren Silverman (2012, December). “Social Media Help Diabetes Patients (And Drugmakers) Connect.” http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/12/03/166241115/social-media-helps-diabetes-patients-and-drugmakers-connect.
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Case, Gretchen. “The Magic of X-ray Vision.” Virtual Mentor 9.11 (2007): 773–775.
Mann T. The Magic Mountain. Lowe-Porter HT, trans-ed. New York, NY: Vintage Books; 1969:241. and second quote p. 338.
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There have been instances where this competition has gotten out of hand. One cyclist died trying to regain his Strava King of the Mountain title and the family sued Strava. The suit was dismissed. Another cyclist sped through a red light and killed a pedestrian while using Strava.
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The GER Mood Sweater does this but based on the same type of sensor technology as lie detectors: http://sensoree.com/artifacts/ger-mood-sweater/.
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Recent research into the inaccuracy of Google Flu predictions brings up interesting questions about big data analysis as well as the constantly changing Google algorithms and auto-suggest http://rt.com/news/google-flu-trends-science-105/ Alexis Madrigal notes how this must be taken in perspective considering how Google Flu Trends in conjunction with CDC data can improve prediction: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/in-defense-of-google-flu-trends/359688/.
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@Beijingair twitter feed with over 36,500 followers on 3-29-2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/science/earth/beijing-air-pollution-off-the-charts.html?_r=0.
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Vital Wave Consulting. The opportunity of mobile technology for healthcare in the developing world. Washington (DC) and Berkshire(UK): UN Foundation–Vodafone Foundation Partnership; 2009.
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NovoEd course, Mobile Health Without Borders, By Eric Leroux and Homero Rivas, Stanford University, video Fireside Chat on mHealth with Eric Bing, The George W. Bush Institute, SMU.
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NovoEd course, Mobile Health Without Borders, By Eric Leroux and Homero Rivas, Stanford University, video Global mHealth by Dr. Paul Farmer.
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“The Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE is a $10 million global competition to stimulate innovation and integration of precision diagnostic technologies, helping consumers make their own reliable health diagnoses anywhere, anytime,” http://www.qualcommtricorderxprize.org/competition-details/overview; MIT’s H@cking Medicine innovation incubator, http://hackingmedicine.mit.edu/; InnovateNYP—New York Presbyterian Hospital’s hackathon, http://innovatenyp.challengepost. com/; Brigham and Women’s Hospital Hackathon, http://disruptingmedicine.org/hackathon/.
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For a short discussion of the current situation please see this blog post by Dell’s Chief Medical Officer Andrew Litt: http://blogs.computerworld.com/healthcare-it/23701/when-mobile-app-medical-device-future-healthcare-may-depend-answer.
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Daly, K.M. (2015). Health as a Social Media. In: Einav, G. (eds) The New World of Transitioned Media. The Economics of Information, Communication, and Entertainment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09009-2_4
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