Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Health and Healthcare with audio

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Sunday 11th March 2012

• How STDs Can Be Good for Your Health

  by Anmol Madan, David Hale, Deven McGraw, Emily Hackel and Mark Dredze

  We’ll let you in on a secret: Socially Transmitted Data (STDs) are good for your health.

  Updating Twitter, searching for information on Google, texting your friends, and carrying your mobile phone – these activities may hold the key to preventing your next cold or knowing when flu will be keeping the kids at home so you can get them Echinacea and call the sitter in time.

  In this panel, we’ll discuss how the data you leave in your wake, every day, holds within it vast opportunity to predict and even improve personal and public health; and we’ll delve into some of the latest research and tools that are helping uncover what’s possible. Do you want to know when the next bug will be wafting through town? Is your partner depressed but not aware what’s wrong? Your twitter feed, mobile location traces, search queries, subway travel patterns and even buying behavior may hold the answer.

  The common denominator: These non-traditional passive data offer tremendous scale that simply doesn't exist with any other physiological health sensor. They give us clues about our personal and collective health behavior, and help health care professionals and health organizations better serve the public.

  It is important to note, that while some are excited by these prospects, others cry “big brother”. So we’ll discuss privacy implications too.

  • Health
  • Healthcare
  • Social Media

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Classroom 204, AT&T Conference Center

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