Connecting the dots in healthcare social media

Introducing Gastroenterology Tag Ontology

Austin Chiang MD MPHSeptember 7, 2018

In 2016, the Gastroenterology Tag Ontology (GTO) was developed to better curate and co-localize academic discussion on Twitter, following the lead of our Urology, Radiology, and Hematology/Oncology colleagues at the … 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

Introducing the AI-powered dashboard for Interventional Cardiology conversations

Audun UtengenNovember 1, 2017

We believe (and our customers agree) that tools and services purpose-built for healthcare extract greater value than generic tools. We have been well rewarded for staying focused. Today, we are … Continued

Leveraging Hashtags in Academic Surgery

Heather Logghe, MDOctober 19, 2017

Are you an academic surgeon on Twitter? Are you leveraging hashtags effectively? Few people gave much thought to the hashtag or pound sign (#) until the advent of Twitter. If … 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

Introducing Hematology Tag Ontology

Michael A. Thompson, MD, PhDMay 8, 2017

The Hematology Tag Ontology (HTO, Table 3) is presented here to help organize social media content of interest to hematologists and with some overlap with the CTO and OTO as well as newly devised content.

Urology Tag Ontology – 2017 Update

Hendrik BorgmannMarch 23, 2017

The social media platform Twitter has had an invigorating impact on communication between urological healthcare professionals by enabling rapid and global information exchange.1, 2 Prime examples of Twitter use in … 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

Submit a proposal for the 2017 Stanford Medicine X | Symplur Everyone Included™ Research Challenge

Larry Chu, MD, MSJanuary 29, 2017

Symplur and Stanford Medicine X are welcoming proposals for our third annual research challenge until March 1 at 5 p.m. Can a virtual hashtag create a real community? Damian Roland, MD, … Continued

Medicine X | Symplur research winner shows value medical journal received when patients are engaged

Larry Chu, MD, MSJanuary 16, 2017

The internet has revolutionized every corner of the publishing world. Every corner, that is, except for medical journals, says Dr. Ruth Carlos, deputy editor of the Journal of the American … Continued

New resource for research in healthcare social media – #hcsmR

Audun UtengenJanuary 3, 2017

For all you researchers out there, we’ve just launched a new project in collaboration with Stanford Medicine X to further research in healthcare social media. What we have created is a public … Continued

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