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#DayOfDiabetes … a day in the life shared in real time
My name is Christopher Snider (@iam_spartacus). I’ve been living with type 1 diabetes since October 2002, and writing about my life with diabetes at http://tobesugarfree.com for the past five years. Last year I challenged myself to document every thought and action related to diabetes over a 24-hour period. I used the hashtag #dayofdiabetes to keep track of everything I shared in a Storify post after the day was finished. I used the positive reception to encourage other members of the diabetes community to share their own Day of Diabetes; as no two days of living with diabetes are alike and everyone’s life with diabete...
Source: Fox ePractice - April 16, 2014 Category: Health Managers Authors: Christopher Snider Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Newsletter #dayofdiabetes ePatient Source Type: blogs

#DayOfDiabetes … a day in the life shared in real time
My name is Christopher Snider (@iam_spartacus). I’ve been living with type 1 diabetes since October 2002, and writing about my life with diabetes at http://tobesugarfree.com for the past five years. Last year I challenged myself to document every thought and action related to diabetes over a 24-hour period. I used the hashtag #dayofdiabetes to keep track of everything I shared in a Storify post after the day was finished. I used the positive reception to encourage other members of the diabetes community to share their own Day of Diabetes; as no two days of living with diabetes are alike and everyone’s life with dia...
Source: Fox ePractice - April 16, 2014 Category: Health Managers Authors: Chris Snider Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Newsletter #dayofdiabetes ePatient Source Type: blogs

Healthcare Hashtags … the ones that don’t get published
Healthcare conversations on Twitter are often formed around hashtags. These hashtags enable connections between individuals, foster the effective sharing of ideas, and help entire online communities to form and flourish. Ultimately, we hope that these hashtags are submitted here at Symplur to The Healthcare Hashtag Project where they can become archived, discoverable, and analyzed. During that submission process you’ll be prompted to provide several bits of information about your hashtag depending on what type it is (regular, tweet chat, conference, or disease). Once done, you’ll press the “Submit” ...
Source: Fox ePractice - March 27, 2014 Category: Health Managers Authors: Thomas M. Lee, B.S., NHA Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Newsletter Hashtags The Healthcare Hashtag Project Source Type: blogs

Social Conversations from Doctors 2.0 & You in Paris
One of the joys of having large data sets about the past is the opportunity to learn from observing patterns. And from observing patterns you may be able to give some predictions about the future. Join the discovery process by looking at the infographic in this post while comparing it to the infographic from last year. We recently wrote about the impact of European healthcare conferences by looking at what took place during the 30 days after a conference. We believed that by looking at the post-conference conversations we could learn something about the strength of a conference and what stories and topics that made an impa...
Source: Fox ePractice - March 4, 2014 Category: Health Managers Authors: Audun Utengen, MBA Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Newsletter #doctors20 healthcare social media analytics infographics Patient Included Source Type: blogs

Healthcare Social Media is still growing exponentially – Just look at #HIMSS14
Have we reached peak growth of healthcare social media? The numbers we are seeing doesn’t seem to indicate so. More and more stakeholders in healthcare wether they are patients, providers or other third parties are still flocking to the social web in greater and greater numbers. Just look at what the healthcare conference #HIMSS14 accomplished this week. The graph below shows the top 15 healthcare conferences by single day tweet volume. We’ve never quite seen anything like the tweet volume we witnessed from #HIMSS14 this Monday. 21,393 tweets in a single day is indeed a new record for all healthcare conferences. But w...
Source: Fox ePractice - February 27, 2014 Category: Health Managers Authors: Audun Utengen, MBA Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media #HIMSS14 healthcare conferences healthcare social media analytics Source Type: blogs

The Impact of European Healthcare Conferences
2013 was a remarkable year for healthcare conferences. We like to call 2013 the year healthcare conferences became social. More than 1,080 healthcare conferences were registered and tracked with us last year. That’s more than twice the number from 2012. In other words, it was no longer just the cutting edge health tech conferences that engaged socially – a large number of clinical and other mainstream healthcare conferences joined in. With all the data that we continually collect from these conferences, we’re having lots of fun looking at what’s taking place and especially at what some of the best performers are do...
Source: Fox ePractice - February 12, 2014 Category: Health Managers Authors: Audun Utengen, MBA Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Newsletter #doctors20 #e4p #health2eu #TEDxNijmegen Doctors 2.0 & You epatients eyeforpharma Health 2.0 Europe healthcare conference healthcare conference analytics patients included Source Type: blogs

What Happens After a Healthcare Conference?
What happens when a healthcare conference is over? Not all healthcare conferences are created equal. Some conferences leave a lasting impact with stories that will stay with you as a fellow human being and insights that will empower you professionally. Other conferences can be just fine, but without anything particularly eventful. Many months later you can clearly remember the impactful moments from the great conferences, while rarely remembering the program of the uneventful. What determines this outcome? Do some conferences just have to be more boring than others, or can the outcome be greatly enhanced by how we...
Source: Fox ePractice - November 25, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Audun Utengen, MBA Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Newsletter #HIMSS13 #MedX epatients health2con healthcare conference healthcare conference analytics patients included TEDMED Source Type: blogs

Hashtags in Cancer Care: Embedding Meaning in Digital Health
Many of my patients have no interest in going online, because they can’t trust the cancer information they find through Google, or learn where to find it.  What if a structured system of hashtags helped make it easier? Tagging has been around a long time as a method of organizing content.  Twitter had given it more immediacy for real-time events – whether it’s a tweet chat, a natural disaster or a sports event.  Now many emerge spontaneously, and in a recent survey more than half use hashtags regularly, with a third using them to conduct searches online. When these tags emerge spontaneously, they are part of a fol...
Source: Fox ePractice - November 5, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Matthew S. Katz, MD Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Newsletter American Society of Clinical Oncology Cancer Care Hashtags cancer ontology Cancer Tag Ontology MD Anderson Cancer Center Source Type: blogs

Introducing the #HCSMcourse Twitter Hashtag!
My mission is to bring digital knowledge to medical students therefore preparing them for the world full of digital technologies that is coming. This is why I launched the world’s first university course focusing on social media and mobile health for medical students in 2008. Here are a few ways how I try to teach them: There is a real credit course at Semmelweis Medical School where I have courses in English and in Hungarian. I try to teach them digital literacy through spectacular and engaging presentations. They can answer questions about the topics covered in the lectures on Facebook to gather bonus points for th...
Source: Fox ePractice - October 29, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Dr. Bertalan Meskó Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Newsletter digital medical literacy healthcare social media course medical education Source Type: blogs

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 c...
Source: Fox ePractice - October 14, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Thomas M. Lee, B.S., NHA Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Newsletter Conferences ePatient epatients healthcare conference healthcare conferences Source Type: blogs

The True Audience of Healthcare Conferences – It’s not what you think
If you’ve been to a healthcare conference lately, you probably had a moment where you sat down in the main stage room and looked around in order to size up the audience. You may have silently concluded  “at least 200” or “I can’t believe they managed to fit 1,000 in here”. Either way, you were wrong. The audience for healthcare conferences has evolved…like crazy. We need to make a distinction between physical attendees (those in the room) and the whole audience. For some leading conferences, the true audience is many times larger than the number of physical attendees. Social media, and especially Twitter...
Source: Fox ePractice - October 8, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Audun Utengen, MBA Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Newsletter healthcare conferences healthcare social media analytics network centrality network graph social audience Source Type: blogs

Graphing Mayo Clinic’s Transform Symposium
Mayo Clinic’s Transform Symposium (#TXFM) had another successful year. There were several ways one could be part of last week’s event: by physically attending, following the free live stream, or catching the flow of information on Twitter. I love looking at ways to visualize the data from these transformative healthcare conversations as they take place on Twitter. Here’s one way to get a glimpse of the relationships from these shared conversations. To see the graph below, use a modern browser.  (Safari, Chrome, Firefox) Use your mouse to hover over the graph and see more names with the fish-eye zoom Hov...
Source: Fox ePractice - September 21, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Audun Utengen, MBA Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media healthcare social media analytics Mayo Clinic network centrality analysis network graph social network analysis Transform Source Type: blogs

HCSM Review #35: How social is changing healthcare content, participatory medicine, insurance indexes and patient support groups
We’re delighted to host the 35th edition of the Health Care Social Media Review. HCSM Review is a biweekly peer-reviewed blog carnival for published posts about social media use in healthcare. The three previous reviews were hosted by ZocDoc, SocialQI and Mayo Clinic. There simply could be no healthcare social media without content. Nothing to share or discuss on Twitter, nothing to like on Facebook and nothing to look at on Instagram. In this HCSM Review we take a close look at the topics of content curation, how tweet chats are changing healthcare, how social engagement is used to index health insurance prov...
Source: Fox ePractice - August 28, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Audun Utengen, MBA Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media HCSM blog carnival HCSMReview health care social media Source Type: blogs

Analyzing Twitter Conversations from Healthcare Conferences
So far this year, over 400 healthcare conferences have registered their hashtag with Symplur. It’s an amazing number! We’ve commented on the growth of Twitter use in healthcare conferences in the past, and we plan to publish some more healthcare social media analytics in the time to come. Conference organizers register their hashtags with us for several reasons, awareness in the healthcare social media community and access to some basic analytics and Twitter transcripts. Analytics are a lot of fun and we’ve observed much increased interest in what one can learn from these datasets that each conference lea...
Source: Fox ePractice - April 30, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Audun Utengen, MBA Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media #doctors20 Basil Strategies conference analytics Denise Silber Doctors 2.0 & You healthcare conference healthcare social media analytics Source Type: blogs

#RareDisease … Searching for Rare Disease Support on the Social Web
When it comes to The Healthcare Hashtag Project, one of the most rewarding things for us at Symplur is to see people use and share the tools and information that they find during their visit.  To know that the project is found to be useful by a diverse community of healthcare workers, caregivers, and patients makes us feel like we’re helping to fill a void.  And perhaps nowhere is that void more evident than for those whose lives are touched by a rare disease. I say that about rare disease with some rather firm confidence … because I speak from personal experience.  Please allow me to explain …   Contract...
Source: Fox ePractice - January 15, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Thomas M. Lee, B.S., NHA Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Source Type: blogs