Data visualization of #HDPalooza – 11,141 Tweets
Health Datapalooza IV (#HDPalooza) just ended last night as the fourth annual national conference born from government efforts to liberate health data. Two conference days concluded with 11,141 tweets created! An amazing feat! In the same spirit of liberating health data, we have taken the data from Twitter and visualized it in the network centrality analysis shown above. The larger …
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Which was the most popular #hcsm tweet chat?
What you see above a scatter plot of all #hcsm tweet chats and their tweet volume that we’ve got in our database going back to 2010. These tweet chats have taken place every Sunday at 9PM EST. As you can see, #hcsm is still going strong so far in 2013 with an average of 800 tweets during the chats. …
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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 …
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#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 …
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The Flattening of Healthcare: Breaking Down Barriers in Healthcare Social Media
Twitter Visualized The Rise of Patient Communities on Twitter The Dynamics of a Twitter Patient Community – Network Centrality Analysis The Flattening of Healthcare: Breaking Down Barriers in Healthcare Social Media In the two previous posts in this series of Twitter visualizations, we’ve looked at the growth of patient communities and the dynamics and centrality of one of them. This …
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The Dynamics of a Twitter Patient Community – Network Centrality Analysis
Twitter Visualized The Rise of Patient Communities on Twitter The Dynamics of a Twitter Patient Community – Network Centrality Analysis The Flattening of Healthcare: Breaking Down Barriers in Healthcare Social Media In our previous post we looked at the growth of patient-centric conversations on Twitter visually identified in our healthcare dataset as green nodes. This time, we’re going to zoom …
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The Rise of Patient Communities on Twitter – Twitter Visualized
Twitter Visualized The Rise of Patient Communities on Twitter The Dynamics of a Twitter Patient Community – Network Centrality Analysis The Flattening of Healthcare: Breaking Down Barriers in Healthcare Social Media For over 2 years, Symplur has collected health conversations on Twitter. From a humble start, our infrastructure has grown and matured to scale with the tremendous growth of healthcare …
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Ideagoras 2012 … Healthcare in a New Social & Connected World
I’m too excited to wait, so I’ll just get right to the point. I’m both thrilled and honored to be speaking at the “Ideagoras 2012” conference in Madrid on the 22nd of November. I’ve been given an amazing opportunity to share my perspective on a topic that’s been a passion of mine, to be associated with such an impressive list …
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Being Quiet Doesn’t Create Change – Transform Healthcare!
Editor’s note: Mayo Clinic Transform Symposium is one of the major forces of disruptive innovation in the healthcare industry. Symplur is very excited to be part of the program. Data from The Healthcare Hashtag Project is going to power a presentation by Audun Utengen that will focus on the transformative change in health communication. By analyzing the millions of open healthcare conversations …
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Expert healthcare practitioners of the social web: Dr. Ronan Kavanagh
Dr. Ronan Kavanagh (@RonanTKavanagh) is one of the leading voices in the rheumatology conversation on the social web. Through his portfolio of social presences, Dr. Kavanagh maintains an admirable balance between approachable affability and informed professionalism, and I was delighted when he agreed to share some of his insights regarding healthcare professional use of social media with the Symplur community. …
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