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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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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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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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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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Social Media Analytics for Healthcare

Data is great, and boy do we have lots of data from the millions of Twitter conversations we have in our healthcare social media analytics database. However, data isn’t very useful or say user-friendly until after you’ve curated and analyzed it. The Healthcare Hashtag Project is now taking some small first steps into the realm of analytics.  Take a look at …

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