Connecting the dots in healthcare social media

Pharma Engagements with Patients and Doctors at ASCO

Audun UtengenJune 1, 2017

The stakeholder group in healthcare that has been the most reluctant to adopt and to engage on social media is arguably pharma. Cultural and regulatory concerns have long delayed their … Continued

New Tool: Healthcare Hashtag Finder

Audun UtengenMarch 16, 2017

Have you ever needed a super simple and fast way to find the right health hashtag for an article you want to share? We just built the solution. And it’s … Continued

A Day at the White House – Taking Patient Partnerships Further

Audun UtengenOctober 5, 2016

A couple of months ago Symplur was invited to the White House for a workshop dedicated to engaging participants as partners in research. Since that awesome day we’ve been working with … Continued

Social Media Pharma Company of the Year

Audun UtengenMay 11, 2016

Measuring influence – how we used the Healthcare Social Graph® Score to determine PM Society’s Digital Awards winner The PM Society’s 2016 Digital Awards took place last month in London, and we … Continued

Introducing the Cardiology Hashtag Ontology

R. Jay Widmer, MD/PhDApril 1, 2016

The aim of the Cardiology Hashtag Ontology is to coalesce and codify common themes used in the cardiovascular social media community. With such a burgeoning social media presence in cardiovascular diseases, … Continued

Twitter: The Future of Clinical Trial Recruitment

Mark StoryMarch 21, 2016

The views expressed in this post are mine and mine alone and do not necessarily reflect those of any of my current or past employers. I recently wrote about how … Continued

Introducing the Pathology Hashtag Ontology

Jerad M. Gardner, MDMarch 11, 2016

The past two years have seen an explosion in the amount of pathology content being tweeted and in the number of pathologists active on Twitter. Pathology is perhaps even more … Continued

Tweeting for the Greater Good – How #SPSM Makes a Difference

Christopher SniderMarch 11, 2016

A study recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine stated that Charlie Sheen’s HIV-positive disclosure “corresponded with the greatest number of HIV-related Google searches ever recorded in the United States.” For … Continued

Hashtags to Access Health Information

Matthew S. Katz, MDJune 15, 2015

Update: The research has now been published in JAMA Oncology Katz MS, Utengen A, Anderson PF, et al. Disease-Specific Hashtags for Online Communication About Cancer Care. JAMA Oncol. Published online … Continued

Measuring the Impact of Live-Tweeting a Chronic Disease

Christopher SniderJune 5, 2015

Last year I conducted an advocacy effort within the diabetes community live-tweeting a day of diabetes thoughts and actions. I chronicled the results of that effort here on Symplur. Efforts … Continued

The Intersection of Cancer Research and Twitter: a Groundbreaking Opportunity

Peter GarrettMarch 27, 2015

At the National Cancer Institute (NCI), we see first hand every day how people in the cancer community have relied upon social media to gather and share information—as well as … Continued

Applying the Power of Twitter to Medical Journal Clubs

Paul Sufka, MDMarch 9, 2015

“At some point we must go beyond the introduction and into application [of social media].” — Dr. Bryan Vartabedian, 33charts.com Recently, a number of specialties have started forming journal clubs on Twitter, and … Continued

An Interview with #hcsm Creator and Moderator, Dana Lewis

Christopher SniderMarch 1, 2015

After researching the data for last month’s blog post about the influence and impact of #hcsm on the broader healthcare social media landscape, it only seemed fair to share my … Continued

Stanford Medicine X and Symplur announce social media analytics research challenge

Christopher SniderFebruary 19, 2015

Stanford Medicine X and Symplur are pleased to announce a joint initiative designed to spark scholarly research activity in healthcare social media. The Stanford Medicine X | Symplur Signals Research … Continued

Did #MeaslesTruth Create a New Form of Twitter Communication?

Mark Harmel, MPHFebruary 12, 2015

A new form of social media was created last week – a 10 minute “TwitterStorm” broke out over the topic of childhood immunizations one month after the Disneyland exposure and … Continued

Patient inclusiveness now also at the White House – #PrecisionMedicine

Audun UtengenFebruary 4, 2015

Last Friday we received a hashtag submission from @NIH for #PrecisionMedicine and about 30 minutes later the tweet activity just exploded. We realized we had to take a closer look … Continued

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

Christopher SniderJanuary 27, 2015

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 … Continued

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