New Healthcare Analytics Features for Social Media
A popular feature on the Healthcare Hashtag Project is the customizable healthcare analytics page. You select a time period, we give you analytics with participation metrics, influencer metrics, and some beautiful graphs. We’ve mostly seen it being used for healthcare tweet chats and healthcare conferences. It’s just a simple way to quickly see what an impact an event had, and …
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Twitter for Healthcare … 50 Million tweets and counting
Health, whether our own or that of someone close to us, carries a high level of importance, interest, and ultimately common ground. And because of that we tend to talk about it. We seek knowledge and support. And with the rise of healthcare social media our ability connect with those who share our desire to converse and learn from one …
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Can We Measure The Quality of a Healthcare Conference Twitter Stream?
We’ve recently looked at a couple of record-breaking healthcare conferences (one here in the States and the other in Europe) as well as the value of social media for a healthcare conference specifically. The first two mentioned blogs looked at tweet volume, and the third used participant numbers as a metric. Tweet volume is a fun and very easy-to-use comparison metric, but unfortunately it …
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How valuable is a social media presence for a Healthcare Conference?
We’ve recently witnessed a couple of incredible healthcare conferences taking place, #himss12 and #TEDxMaastricht, both ground breaking in their impact of healthcare social media. Today marks the last day of another huge healthcare conference, #tedmed, which of course have inspired us to have a another look at our database to see if putting numbers into context can tell us a …
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TEDxMaastricht Sets European Record
It’s only been a little more than a month ago since we witnessed a healthcare social media milestone with the #himss12 conference. The growth of healthcare social media is nothing but breathtaking. @ePatientDave pointed out that #TEDxMaastricht created a volume of 6,414 tweets yesterday, April 2nd. With a closer look and by running some comparative analytics, that number turns out …
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HIMSS12 Sets World Record for Healthcare Conferences in Tweet Volume
Yesterday, February 21, 2012, happened to be a historic day in healthcare social media. The participants at the HIMSS12 conference (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Conference 2012) in Las Vegas tweeted the hashtag #himss12 a total of 6,438 times. I don’t know about you, but if you had your Twitter client up and running yesterday like I had, you simply …
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Blogging Ideas for Physicians: Your Commentary on Medical News
Blogging Ideas: Medical News Your commentary on medical news is a great source of blogging ideas and some of the most useful information you can share with patients. Your physician or hospital blog is the perfect vehicle to address what your patients may be seeing or reading about in the news. By providing your commentary on your healthcare blog, you provide …
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Disease Hashtags on Twitter … the Healthcare Hashtag Project: Phase 2
The number of healthcare conversations taking place on Twitter is truly staggering. And, as many of you are aware, we’ve made an attempt to organize these conversations via the Healthcare Hashtag Project. Our initial launch of this ever growing list of health related hashtags for Twitter was focused on the “business of healthcare”. But we announced early on that it …
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Speaking personally: where to give voice to healthcare interests on the social web
We are all aware of the importance of discoverability on the Internet. We understand that blog posts which cannot be found, regardless of their quality, will not be read. We therefore take pains to optimise our content for search engines by electing to use natural language search terms as post titles, and judiciously tagging posts and images with keywords. However, …
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Innovation Insight Through Healthcare Social Media
In this rapidly changing business environment, it has not been unusual to hear of healthcare executives smartly taking a step back from their big hairy audacious goals to revisit their innovation strategy. Chances are, they are looking for solutions beyond market presence, and cross pollinating industry segments to tap new knowledge – in other words looking for social inputs to …
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