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Gunther Eysenbach
Eysenbach in 2009
Born (1967-03-22) 22 March 1967 (age 57)
Berlin, Germany
Known forEHealth, Consumer health informatics
Scientific career
FieldsHealthcare
InstitutionsCentre for Global eHealth Innovation

Gunther Eysenbach is a researcher on healthcare, especially health policy, eHealth, and consumer health informatics.

Career

Eysenbach was born on 22 March 1967[citation needed] in Berlin, Germany. While a medical student, he served on the executive board as elected communication director, later as vice-president of the European Medical Students' Association.[1] He received an M.D. from the University of Freiburg and a Master of Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health. From 1999 to 2002 he founded and headed a research unit on cybermedicine and ehealth at the University of Heidelberg[citation needed] and organized and chaired the World Congress on Internet in Medicine.[2] In March 2002, he emigrated to Canada[citation needed] and since then has been senior scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation[3] at the University Health Network[citation needed] (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), and associate professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.[citation needed]

Eysenbach works in the field of consumer health informatics. He has written several books and articles, and organizes conferences. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Internet Research. From 2000-2008, he served as working group chair for the WG Consumer Health Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association.[4]

Other contributions include:

  • Initiator, organizer, and chair of the annual Medicine 2.0 Congress[5]
  • Eysenbach has conducted a study on the association between search engine queries and influenza incidence,[6] which was replicated by other research groups 2–3 years later.[7][8] He coined the terms "infoveillance" and "infodemiology" for these kinds of approaches.[9][10]
  • Eysenbach is initiator of WebCite, an archiving service for scholarly authors and editors citing webpages.[11]

Books written or edited

  • Consumer Health Informatics. New York: Springer. 2005. ISBN 978-0-387-23991-0. OCLC 60413694. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  • Eysenbach, G. (ed.) (1998). Medicine and Medical Education in Europe - The Eurodoctor. Stuttgart-New York: Thieme. ISBN 978-3-13-115221-3. OCLC 41647056. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  • Eysenbach G, Lamers W (eds.) (1999). Praxis und Computer (in German). Düsseldorf: Springer-Verlag/med-inform Verlagsges. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  • Eysenbach, G (1994). Computer-Manual für Mediziner und Biowissenschaftler (in German). Munich-Baltimore: Urban & Schwarzenberg. ISBN 978-3-541-11841-0. OCLC 30558735.

See also

  • WebCite – an on-demand Web archiving service founded by Eysenbach

References

  1. ^ Web site of the European Medical Students' Association. See EMSA & IFMSA at the Wayback Machine (archived May 3, 2006)
  2. ^ "World Conference in Heidelberg on Medicine and the Internet" (Press release). University of Heidelberg. 1999-08-27. Retrieved 2008-04-21.
  3. ^ "Centre for global e-health innovation launched in Toronto by Andy Shaw". Canhealth.com. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
  4. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20100706040724/http://imia.org/working_groups/WG_Profile.lasso?-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-MaxRecords=1&-SkipRecords=1&-Database=organizations&-KeyField=Org_ID&-SortField=workgroup_sig&-SortOrder=ascending&type=wgsig. Archived from the original on July 6, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2016. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "medicine20congress.com". medicine20congress.com. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
  6. ^ Gunther Eysenbach (2006). "Infodemiology: tracking flu-related searches on the web for syndromic surveillance". AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings: 244–248. PMC 1839505. PMID 17238340.
  7. ^ Philip M. Polgreen; Yiling Chen; David M. Pennock; Forrest D. Nelson (December 2008). "Using internet searches for influenza surveillance". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 47 (11): 1443–1448. doi:10.1086/593098. PMID 18954267.
  8. ^ Jeremy Ginsberg; Matthew H. Mohebbi; Rajan S. Patel; Lynnette Brammer; Mark S. Smolinski; Larry Brilliant (February 2009). "Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data". Nature. 457 (7232): 1012–1014. doi:10.1038/nature07634. PMID 19020500.
  9. ^ Gunther Eysenbach (May 2011). "Infodemiology and infoveillance tracking online health information and cyberbehavior for public health". American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 40 (5 Suppl 2): S154 – S158. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2011.02.006. PMID 21521589.
  10. ^ Gunther Eysenbach (2009). "Infodemiology and infoveillance: framework for an emerging set of public health informatics methods to analyze search, communication and publication behavior on the Internet". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 11 (1): e11. doi:10.2196/jmir.1157. PMC 2762766. PMID 19329408.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  11. ^ Eysenbach, G; Trudel, M. "Going, Going, Still There: Using the WebCite Service to Permanently Archive Cited Web Pages - J Med Internet Res 2005;7(5):e60". Jmir.org.
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