Goldman, Lisa. "Researcher Says Twitter Holds the Potential to Alter Public Health Policy." Personal Democracy Media, September 19, 2012.
From the report: "Mark Dredze, an assistant research professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University, wrote a research paper called How Social Media Will Change Public Health, in which he discusses how he has used an algorithm to mine tweets for information about self medication, exercise, dental pain and smoking to augment and create new public health capabilities. " Read more
See also
Dredze, Mark. "How Social Media Will Change Public Health," IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume 27, Number 4, p. 81-84, July-August, 2012.
