Press & Publications
February 2016
Publicly Available Online Tool Facilitates Real-Time Monitoring of Vaccine Conversations and Sentiments
By Chi Y. Bahk, Melissa Cumming, Louisa Paushter, Lawrence C. Madoff, Angus Thomson, and John S. Brownstein
Health Affairs
January 21, 2016
Social Media Listening for Routine Post-Marketing Safety Surveillance
By Gregory E. Powell, Harry A. Seifart, Tjark Reblin, Phil J. Burstein, James Blowers, J. Alan Menius, Jeffery L. Painter, Michele Thomas, Carrie E. Pierce, Harold W. Rodriguez, John S. Brownstein, Clark C. Freifeld, Heidi G. Bell, Nabarun Dasgupta
Drug Safety
January 14, 2016
Anticipating the international spread of Zika virus from Brazil
By Isaac I. Bogoch, Oliver J. Brady, Moritz U.G. Kraemer, Matthew German, Marisa I. Creatore, Manisha A. Kulkarni, John S. Brownstein, Sumiko R. Mekaru, Simon I. Hay, Emily Groot, Alexander Watts, Kamran Khan
The Lancet
January 11, 2016
5 Awesome Problems Solved Through Data Science
By Young Bang, Booz Allen Data Science
January 7, 2016
Digital health, innovation and partnerships: A Q&A with Boston Children’s Chief Innovation Officer
By Vector, Boston Children’s Hospital
January 2016
SOCIAL MEDIA MINING FOR PUBLIC HEALTH MONITORING AND SURVEILLANCE
By Michael J. Paul, Abeed Sarker, John S. Brownstein, Azadeh Nikfarjam, Matthew Scotch, Karen L. Smith, Graciela Gonzalez
Pacific Symposium of Biocomputing 2016
December 21, 2015
Google helps researchers track down worst STD cases
By Mary Chris Jaklevic, Kaiser Health News
December 21, 2015
Consultancy Booz Allen plans Boston expansion into big data
By Jon Chesto, The Boston Globe
December 15, 2015
Diversion and Illicit Sale of Extended Release Tapentadol in the United States
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Pain Medicine
December 4, 2015
Healthland Uber Alles: Uber Brings Preventative Health Care Home
By Paul Spector, M.D., The Huffington Post
November 20, 2015
With slew of partnerships, Uber rolls up to healthcare space
By Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews
November 18, 2015
Why Aren’t You Getting a Flu Shot, and Could Uber Encourage You?
By Booz Allen Hamilton
November 17, 2015
On-demand health: UberHEALTH and the future of healthcare delivery
By John Brownstein, Uber Under the Hood
November 17, 2015
Haven’t got your flu shot? Uber is offering one-day, on-demand vaccinations to your doorstep
By Lena H. Sun, The Washington Post
November 10, 2015
Boston Children’s to Guide Rock Health-Funded Startups
By David Raths, Healthcare Informatics
November 4, 2015
More Patients Willing To Let Doctors Access Social Media
By Erik Sass, Social Media & Marketing Daily
October 30, 2015
Vomiting Up Brunch? Your Angry Tweet May Save Others From Food Poisoning
October 13, 2015
Patient tweets may reveal insights into health outcomes, hospital experiences
By Ilene MacDonald, FierceHealthcare
October 12, 2015
Improving healthcare through social media tracking
By Ben Davis, Econsultancy
October 11, 2015
GSK finds 21M mentions of its drugs in trawl of social media
By Nick Paul Taylor, FierceBiotechIT
October 5, 2015
GSK, Merck use social media to learn how patients use drugs outside the lab
By Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews
September 10, 2015
Goshgarian, Russell: Finding Essure’s problems the hard way
By Russell and Guest Columnists, The MetroWest Daily News
September 10, 2015
HealthMap Informational Video
August 31, 2015
BostInno Approved: The Startup Events You Need to Know About This Week
By Galen Moore, BostInno
August 26, 2015
Google closes Flu Trends, will send data to researchers at Boston Children’s, CDC
By Nidhi Subbaraman, The Boston Globe: beta Boston
August 5, 2015
Increasing Patient Engagement in Pharmacovigilance Through Online Community Outreach and Mobile Reporting Applications: An Analysis of Adverse Event Reporting for the Essure Device in the US
Chi Y. Bahk, Melanie Goshgarian, Krystal Donohue, Clark C. Freifeld, Christopher M. Menone, Carrie E. Pierce, Harold Rodriguez, John S. Brownstein, Robert Furberg, Nabarun Dasgupta
Pharmaceutical Medicine
August 2015
Drivers of Emerging Infectious Disease Events as Framework for Digital Detection
Sarah H. Olson, Corey M. Benedum, Sumiko R. Mekaru, Nicholas D. Preston, Jonna A.K. Mazet, Damien O. Joly, John S. Brownstein
CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases
August 2015
Searching the Web for Influenza Vaccines: HealthMap Vaccine Finder
Jane E. Huston, Sumiko R. Mekaru, Sheryl Kluberg, John S. Brownstein
American Journal of Public Health
July 24, 2015
FDA Leverages Patient-Reported Information to Monitor Drug Safety
Bonnie I. Scott and Bradley Merrill Thompson, The National Law Review
July 16, 2015
FDA, Google met to discuss use of search to find adverse drug reactions
By Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews
July 14, 2015
Using Twitter data to study the world’s health
By Elaine Reddy, The Twitter Data blog
July 10, 2015
Booz Allen returning to lucrative, commercial, international sectors
By Thomas Heath, The Washington Post
July 3, 2015
Want to spot an outbreak before your friends? Look at this map
By News Desk, PBS Newshour
June 26, 2015
Why Your Doctor Might Want To Track Your Tweets
By Rachel Zimmerman, wbur’s CommonHealth
June 15, 2015
Boston Children’s taps John Brownstein as Chief Innovation Officer
By Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews
June 8, 2015
Colorado researcher’s black-market drug site a window on opioid abuse
By Electa Draper, The Denver Post
May 6, 2015
How social media can be used to track disease outbreaks
By Stephanie Ocano, Healthcare Global
May 6, 2015
Harvard doctors argue the digital phenotype will change healthcare
By Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews
March 5, 2015
FDA releases apps for clinicians to track drug shortages
By Aditi Pai, MobiHealthNews
April 22, 2015
2015 Bio-IT World Best Practices Award Winners Announced
By Bio-IT World Staff
April 18, 2015
Researchers rely on website that tracks illegal Rx sales
By Curt Woodward, The Boston Globe
April 18, 2015
Researchers use black-market drug website to gauge public health
By Felice J. Freyer, The Boston Globe
April 6, 2015
Patients have key role in health data collection
By Lyle Moran, San Diego Source
April 2, 2015
Five ways a Boston Children’s Hospital spin-off is using social media for public health
By Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews
April 1, 2015
Give me the pills and nobody gets hurt
By Elizabeth Salaam, San Diego Reader
March 20, 2015
Comparing timeliness, content, and disease severity of formal and informal source outbreak reporting
Chi Y. Bahk, David A. Scales, Sumiko R. Mekaru, John S. Brownstein, Clark C. Freifeld
BMC Infectious Diseases
March 5, 2015
FDA releases app for clinicians to track drug shortages
By Aditi Pai, MobiHealthNews
March 3, 2015
Prescription Drug Abuse Linked to Indiana HIV Outbreak
By Anna Almendrala, The Huffington Post
January 22, 2015
Searching social networks to detect adverse reactions
By Elizabeth Sukkar, The Pharmaceutical Journal
December 4, 2014
Website Lets Buyers, Sellers Share Drug Prices Online
By Jim Armstrong, CBS Boston
November 21, 2014
Booz Allen Unveils Problem-Solving Products at 1776 Incubator Demo
By MarketWatch
October 29, 2014
Booz Allen buys Boston health analytics start-up Epidemico
By Amrita Jayakumar, The Washington Post
October 2, 2014
How Social Media Listening Can Improve Public Health
By Stephen Goldsmith, government technology
September 24, 2014
Ebola Outbreak: How The Internet Is Changing The Way Health Officials Predict Deadly Epidemics
September 8, 2014
MHRA and Novartis lead consortium to develop adverse drug reaction app
By Dan Stanton, in-Pharma
September 5, 2014
Press release: UK regulator leads innovative EU project on the use of smartphones and social media for drug safety information
August 11, 2014
Who Tweeted That 145 People Had Ebola in Atlanta? That and Eight Other Things to Know About the Outbreak Today
By Liz Klimas, The Blaze
August 11, 2014
An Algorithm Spotted the Ebola Outbreak Nine Days Before WHO Announced It
August 8, 2014
Local Researchers Monitor Infectious Disease Outbreaks Around the World
By Jim Armstrong, CBS Boston
July 9, 2014
Data into Dollars: MedWatcher is Crowdsourcing Reports of Medical Side Effects
June 10, 2014
openFDA launches open data platform for consumer protection
By Alex Howard, TechRepublic
May 21, 2014
Fighting infectious diseases with the power of social media
May 15, 2014
Searching Social Media for Drug Side Effects
April 29, 2014
Digital Drug Safety Surveillance: Monitoring Pharmaceutical Products in Twitter
April 11, 2014
Disease Outbreak Warnings Via Social Media Sought by U.S.
January 27, 2014
Adverse Events in social Media: FDA Expects Signal Detection “Revolution”
December 17, 2013
One way everyone can help with post-market surveillance of medical devices and drugs
By Deanna Pogorelc, MedCity News
September 10, 2013
The rise of the digital epidemiologist: Using big data to track outbreaks and disasters
August 16, 2013
Crowdsourcing black market prices for prescription opioids
Nabarun Dasgupta, Clark Freifeld, John S Brownstein, Christopher M Menone, Hilary L Surratt, Luke Poppish, Jody L Green, Eric J Lavonas, Richard C Dart
Journal of Medical Internet Research
May 13, 2013
Side effects of prescription drugs can be reported and studied on Web sites
May 12, 2013
Vaccines: New Surveillance Tool Detects Public Concerns
By Dr. Laurie Barclay, Medscape