Medicine X, as a Patient Centric Conference, has Set the Bar Higher

Stanford University’s “Medicine X”. It was one of those healthcare conferences that I kept getting asked about again and again. “Will you be there?” “Will Symplur have a presence?” “You won’t miss Medicine X, will you?” At Symplur, over the past three years we’ve tracked more than 1,800 healthcare conferences from around the globe, and we’ve captured their entire Twitter conversations in our database of health related tweets at the Healthcare Hashtag Project. Sometimes we’re hired to help facilitate the social media experience at these events, and/or to do a deep-dive into the analytics of those conversations. Other times we’re just naturally curious. So we watch, listen, and like all good data geeks … we write algorithms to slice and dice all the wondrous bits of what’s being discussed on social media surrounding these events so that we’re able to uncover and tell the many stories that lie within. Going to Medicine X for the first time I believe it was last April when I stumbled upon a YouTube video of a Google Hangout providing insight into Medicine X via Q&A with patient attendees. It featured Christopher Snider (@iam_spartacus), in the dual role of moderator/ePatient, and a panel that included the organizer of Medicine X, Dr. Larry Chu (@larrychu), and several other ePatients who had attended the conference in 2012. I was riveted to the screen for all 61 minutes of video as I learned how patient centric the conference was. Flash forwa...
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