Blog – connecting the dots in healthcare social media

COPD, “Our Biggest Challenge” — Grace Anne Dorney Koppel and Ted Koppel, Social Media, and Innovation

Liza BernsteinOctober 18, 2019

Initial insights from the Stanford Medicine X COPD Challenge reiterate the power of social media to galvanize communities around healthcare predicaments. Last month, Grace Anne Dorney Koppel and her husband—icon … Continued

Symplur joining Stanford Medicine X’s Educational Grand Challenge on COPD

Audun UtengenSeptember 20, 2019

Starting today, Symplur will collaborate with Stanford Medicine X, Grace Anne Dorney Koppel and Ted Koppel on the 2019 Medicine X | CHANGE Educational Grand Challenge on COPD. Symplur is providing an exclusive COPD … Continued

Doctors Up, Patient Advocates Down: Diverging ASCO Twitter Engagement

Liza Bernstein, Audun UtengenJune 20, 2019

Doctors up, patient advocates down: diverging Twitter engagement at ASCO from 2015 to 2019.

Begging to Work for Free — Patient Advocates Speak Up

Liza BernsteinJune 3, 2019

A tweetchat leads to an unprecedented, public discussion about the multi-faceted costs of patient advocacy and the concept of begging to work for free.

Radiation Oncology Tag Ontology: Collaborative Design Integrating Hashtags Across Cancer Care

Matthew S. Katz, MDMay 23, 2019

In the five years since the patient-centered Cancer Tag Ontology (CTO) came into being, conversations about cancer on Twitter continue to grow. The Oncology Tag Ontology (OTO) was posted on … Continued

New: Demo Symplur Signals Dashboard for Free

Audun UtengenJanuary 24, 2018

You’re now free to take a sneak peek at how Symplur Signals visualizes thousands of different healthcare conversations. Simply log in here with your free Symplur Account (or create a … Continued

Who should be included in health care conferences?

Julia JamesSeptember 27, 2017

Patients, when represented as event stakeholders, generate richer conversation and wider dissemination of information on the social web, a new Medicine X study shows. It was June 2016, and Audun … Continued

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

The Urology Tag Ontology Project

Alexander Kutikov, MD, FACSAugust 10, 2015

Urologists have been on the forefront of harnessing Social Media for professional use. Urological Organizations and Journals have used Social Media to lower barriers for information dissemination [1,2] [3] [4]. … 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

Promoting Data Literacy Skills Among Students and Scholars in the Health Sciences

Audun UtengenMay 23, 2015

In collaboration with the innovative healthcare social media analytics company Symplur, the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (SC CTSI) has launched a new workshop series to help students … 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

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