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Social Media: The Evolution of e-Health Services

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The chapter analyses e-health services provided by different Social Media (collaborative projects, blogs, content communities, social networking sites, virtual games and virtual social worlds and video-chat) and introduces a Hybrid Cloud E-health Services architecture (HCLES) able to provide open, interoperable, scalable, and extensible services for all the e-health activities. It integrates the potentialities of Skype for a direct communication and synchronous data transmission among people with the cloud perspective of Social Media services.

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    Tiziana Guzzo, Alessia D’Andrea, Fernando Ferri & Patrizia Grifoni

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Glossary

Blog

Is an Internet discussion site that consist of discussion posts.

Cloud-Computing

Is a term used to describe different types of computing concepts that involve various computers connected through Internet.

E-health

Indicates healthcare practice supported by electronic communication and processes.

Healthcare

Is the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, injury, and other mental and physical impairments in human beings.

Social Media

Refers to the means of interactions in which people share, create and exchange information in virtual communities.

Social Networking

Is group of people that discuss and share ideas and/or specific interests on the Internet.

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Guzzo, T., D’Andrea, A., Ferri, F., Grifoni, P. (2014). Social Media: The Evolution of e-Health Services. In: Gündüz-Öğüdücü, Ş., Etaner-Uyar, A. (eds) Social Networks: Analysis and Case Studies. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1797-2_10

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