title: Panel: Big Data & Social Media for Empowering Patients with Diabetes.
abstract: Millions of people living with diabetes are using mobile phones, Internet and social media to socialize with other patients, share experience or search information relevant for their self-management. This phenomena is leading towards a new paradigm of hyper-connected diabetes digital self-management. This is also leading towards an explosion on data, a large amount of data is collected on populations around the world. This panel will address the opportunities this data presents, discuss the latest research that uses it, and the limitations and other concerns.
authors.affiliation: Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar, IMIA Social Media Working Group, lluque@qf.org.qa.
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fernandez-Luque
authors.affiliation: Social Computing Group, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar, ymejova@qf.org.qa.
authors.forename: Yelena
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mejova
authors.affiliation: Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (IMIM), IMIM-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, mmayer@imim.es.
authors.forename: Miguel-Angel
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mayer
authors.affiliation: Be Healthy - Be Mobile, mHealth for Non-Communicable Diseases, Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases (PND), WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, hasvoldp@who.int.
authors.forename: Per Erlend
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Hasvold
authors.affiliation: Be Healthy - Be Mobile, mHealth for Non-Communicable Diseases, Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases (PND), WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, joshis@who.int.
authors.forename: Surabhi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Joshi
mesh_terms: D054626:Consumer Health Information / Q000458:organization & administration*; D066264:Datasets as Topic; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D004493:Education / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000379:methods*; D011780:Qatar; D061108:Social Media / Q000458:organization & administration*; D060756:Social Networking; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000458:organization & administration*