NDLI: Decision Making and Support in Healthcare Online Social Networks

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Sadovykh, Valeri Sundaram, David
Abstract	Recently Online Social Communities and Networks (OSN) have become widely popular as a source of data or reference for those seeking advice. It is apparent that properly governed and designed OSNs can play an important role in supporting different types of decision making (DM), as they provide their participants various forms of support, ranging from the instrumental to the emotional and informational. This study addresses the potential utilization of OSN as a support tool for the decision-making process. To better understand the relationship between decision making and support and OSN, this research will focus on Healthcare-orientated Online Social Networks (HOSN). We consider DM in HOSNs to verify the existence of DM phases and the sequence in which these phases are reached. We use Netnography as the main research methodology and Online Survey as the secondary method to explore and extend, as well as challenge, existing knowledge of OSN and DM.
Starting Page	1048
Ending Page	1052
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450338547
DOI	10.1145/2808797.2809363
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2015-08-25
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Decision making phases Decision making Decision making process Decision support Healthcare online social networks Netnography Online social networks
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Decision Making and Support in Healthcare Online Social Networks