Leveraging Social Data for Health Care Behavior Analytics

User-generated social health data can provide valuable insights into the health care behavior and practices of patients for clinicians, policy makers and other patients. Social InfoButtons is a tool for integrating and analyzing social health data, using a semantic data integration framework that is flexible and extensible with respect to a variety of health data sources. The integration overlay provides a framework that semantically links data enabling cross dataset exploration and analysis. The unified data model for both scientific and social sources allows multi-dimensional analysis and the ability to explore and compare the expert knowledge with the actual health care practices of patients.