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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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- Blog
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Is an Internet discussion site that consist of discussion posts.
- Cloud-Computing
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Is a term used to describe different types of computing concepts that involve various computers connected through Internet.
- E-health
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Indicates healthcare practice supported by electronic communication and processes.
- Healthcare
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Is the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, injury, and other mental and physical impairments in human beings.
- Social Media
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Refers to the means of interactions in which people share, create and exchange information in virtual communities.
- Social Networking
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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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