First International Workshop on Web Science and Information Exchange in the Medical Web (MedEx 2010): conference report

Abstract

In April 2010, the First International Workshop on Web Science and Information Exchange in the Medical Web took place in Raleigh / North Carolina. This workshop was devoted to the technologies for dealing with social- and multi media data for medical information gathering and exchange. The workshop served as a forum for the confluence of new and multidisciplinary ideas that will help to drive research in the areas of medical web text and data mining.