Extracting and Analysing Social Networks of Physicians

Authors:
Saujoe Liaw;Wilson Wong;Wei Liu;David Glance
Affiliations:
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Venue:
WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we developed a prototype system to extract social data from online sources, build social structures of physicians using multiple, heterogeneous 2-mode networks, and apply social network analysis methods to analyse the networks. A two-part case study is carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach, which reveal interesting conjectures concerning the issue of language barrier in the healthcare service in Western Australia.