Evaluation of Facebook and Twitter Monitoring to Detect Safety Signals for Medical Products: An Analysis of Recent FDA Safety Alerts.

Carrie E PierceKhaled BouriCarol PamerScott ProestelHarold W RodriguezHoa Van LeClark C FreifeldJohn S BrownsteinMark WalderhaugI Ralph EdwardsNabarun Dasgupta

Published in: Drug safety (2017)

An efficient semi-automated approach to social media monitoring may provide earlier insights into certain adverse events. More work is needed to elaborate additional uses for social media data in pharmacovigilance and to determine how they can be applied by regulatory agencies.

Keyphrases

social media
health information
healthcare
machine learning
deep learning
big data
adverse drug
emergency department