Research

Publications: relevant articles on sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), social media and medicine, and works by members of the MyHeartMap team
and the Penn Community.

The New England Journal of Medicine 365;4 nejm.org July 28, 2011
Integrating Social Media into Emergency-Preparedness Effort
Raina M. Merchant, M.D., Stacy Elmer, M.A., Nicole Lurie, M.D., M.S.P.H.

Resuscitation 80, 854–858 www.elsevier.com/locate/resuscitation April 14 2009
Community public access sites: Compliance with American Heart Association recommendations

Sarah E. Haskell, Michael Post, Peter Cram, Dianne L. Atkins

Circulation 2006;113;1260-1270
Community Lay Rescuer Automated External Defibrillation Programs

Tom Aufderheide, MD; Mary Fran Hazinski, RN, MSN; Graham Nichol, M.D., et al

Resuscitation.  2013 Feb;84(2):206-12
Decoding Twitter: Surveillance and Trends for Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Communication.
Bosley JC,  Zhao NW, Hill S , Shofer FS, Asch DA, Becker LB, Merchant RM


Resuscitation 2013 Jul;84(7):910-4
Where are lifesaving automated external defibrillators located and how hard is it to find them in a large urban city?
Leung AC, Asch DA, Lozada KN, Saynisch O, Asch JM, Becker N, Griffis HM, Shofer F, Hershey JC, Hill S, Branas CC, Nichol G, Becker LB, Merchant RM.


Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 2013 Mar 1;6(2):229-36
A Crowdsourcing Innovation Challenge To Locate and Map Automated External Defibrillators.
Merchant RM, Asch DA, Hershey JC, Griffis G, Hill S, Saynisch O, Leung A, Asch JM, Lozada K, Nadkarni L, Kilaru A, Branas CC, Starr L, Stone E ,Shofer F, Nichol G, Becker LB.


Emergency Medical Journal 2013 May 10. [Epub ahead of print]
Using a Mobile App and Mobile Workforce to validate data about emergency public health resources.
Chang AM, Leung, AC, Saynisch O, Griffis H, Hill S, Hershey J, Becker LB, Asch DA, Seidman A,  Merchant RM.


Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2013 Jul 11. [Epub ahead of print]
Crowdsourcing – harnessing the masses to advance health and medicine, a systematic review.
8Ranard BL, Ha YP, Meisel ZF, Asch DAA, Hill SS, Becker LB, Seymour AK, Merchant RM.


Use of Automated External Defibrillators in United States Federal Buildings: Implementation of the Federal Occupational Health Public Access Defibrillation Program. (accepted September 2013, JOEM, in press)
Kilaru AS, Leffer M, Perkner J, Sawyer K, Jolley CE, Nadkarni LD, Shofer FS, Merchant RM.


Big Data. September 2013, 1(3): 160-167. DOI: 10.1089/big.2013.0020
Lessons learned about public health from online crowd surveillance.
Hill S, Merchant RM, Ungar L.