Recommending doctors and health facilities in the HealthNet Social Network
Fedelucio Narducci, Cataldo Musto, Marco Polignano, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops, Giovanni Maria Semeraro · CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Bari Aldo Moro) · 2017
In this paper we present HealthNet (HN), a social network that helps patients to meet the best doctor for her health condition. The core component of HN is a recommender system that suggests to the user patients similar to her, and generates suggestions about doctors and hospitals that best match her patient profile. Currently an alpha version of HN is available only for Italian users, but in the next future we want to extend the platform to other languages. We organized three focus groups with patients, practitioners, and health organizations in order to obtain comments and suggestions. All were very enthusiastic by using the prototype version of HN1.