The healthcare industry is facing challenges with mounting costs. To effectively control costs, providers are beginning to focus on preventative care. By averting the onset or progression of high cost diseases such as cancer, providers hope to reduce the lifetime cost of providing high quality healthcare to their customers.
Understanding the customers and patients form strong social networks, providers are increasingly looking to provide online communities for disease management. These communities provide information, support and a forum for patients, caregivers and providers. These online social networks can become more effective with the use of social network analysis. Providing a personalized experience based on the stage and connectivity of the individual will greatly increase the chances of success in disease management.
Sonamine solutions
If you manage an online disease management forum or community, you will already have the information you need to start personalizing the experience. You can use Sonamine Graph Scoring Engine to explore this network to identify the connectivity status of each participant. You can then construct a network score, such as eigenvalue centrality or a cluster score, for each member that you use to tailor their experience online.
Once the connectivity scoring is codified, use the Sonamine Graph Analysis Server to generate these member scores on a regular basis. Alternatively you may utilize the Sonamine Scoring Service to calculate these scores on an as-needed basis. These scores can then be added to each member's profile in the online community.
