Exploring patients’ behavior through the collection and analysis of the messages they exchange on healthcare forums

This session is presented  by Mr Thierry Baroghel, CEO of the company . Focus Patient, and titled , “Exploring patients’ behavior through the collection and analysis of the messages they exchange on healthcare forums”. Focus Patient is a healthcare-focused consulting firm. They harvest patients’ comments by the millions from blogs, social media, and other forums. They perform an in-depth, AI-based analysis of their experiences, behaviors, and emotions. Thierry will show the challenges they faced in semantic analytics and how WordStat helped them overcome those challenges.
Summary:
  1. Focus Patient, who we are, what services we bring to our clients
  2. Overview of our production processes (web scraping, semantic analysis, storage and queries)
  3. Our challenges regarding semantic analysis and why we have chosen to go with Provalis Research (what we like, what could be improved)
  4. Illustration of both interactive and batch (SDK) usages on actual material used by Focus Patient
  5. Our next steps