Description
The present study uses the data from the largest online health community in China, www.haodf.com, to examine what are the salient topics that Chinese health consumers discussed with their doctors online. The preliminary research found that there are 146,915 posts by patients and 123,059 posts by doctors from Aug. 2006 to Apr. 2014 on this open online forum. In total, there are 10,685 doctors have participated online forum discussion during this time period. The text mining results on topic modeling are still pending. But we already found the promising and unique quality of this data. We are also looking forward to more inspiring research questions to motivate us for this research.
Recommended Citation
Hao, Haijing and Zhang, Kunpeng, "Text Mining Patient-Doctor Online Forum Data from the Largest Online Health Community in China" (2015). AMCIS 2015 Proceedings. 20.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2015/HealthIS/GeneralPresentations/20
Text Mining Patient-Doctor Online Forum Data from the Largest Online Health Community in China
The present study uses the data from the largest online health community in China, www.haodf.com, to examine what are the salient topics that Chinese health consumers discussed with their doctors online. The preliminary research found that there are 146,915 posts by patients and 123,059 posts by doctors from Aug. 2006 to Apr. 2014 on this open online forum. In total, there are 10,685 doctors have participated online forum discussion during this time period. The text mining results on topic modeling are still pending. But we already found the promising and unique quality of this data. We are also looking forward to more inspiring research questions to motivate us for this research.