Looking Forward to Looking Back – How Do Patient Communities Approach New Year’s Goals?

The coming of a new year is an opportunity to set new goals, make new year’s resolutions, and approach new tasks with vigor and enthusiasm. I know for some, it might mean getting back on track with an exercise program or starting that book that has seen more procrastination than pages completed. But right now I’m most interested in how various patient communities collectively approach the new year. Are goals and resolutions actively discussed? If so, are these new year’s goals collaborative or individual? How do these discussions occur in various communities? Are there any trends that can be observed by looking at the collective patient community conversation on Twitter? How have these goals changed over the years? These are the questions I tried to answer – and thanks to the data provided by Signals, I have some fun data to share with you all. To account for possible holiday breaks and tweetchat frequencies, the date range for my analysis covered December 1, 2014 through January 20, 2015. If goals and resolutions were going to be mentioned at all in some organized fashion, this near-two-month window was going to show it. Let’s start with the basics: The hashtags I included in my search were: #bcsm, #btsm, #dsma, #hcldr, #hcsm, #hcsmca, #hpm, #lcsm, #medpsych. No, this is not the entire list of tweetchat communities – as of this post, Symplur is currently tracking 154 recurring tweetchats – but I felt this would give me enough to start a conversation. Through Si...
Source: Fox ePractice - Category: Health Managers Authors: Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Newsletter #bcsm #btsm #medpsych dsma hcldr hcsm hcsmca hpm lcsm new years goals new years resolutions tweetchat Source Type: blogs