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Healthcare Hashtags and Trends

Posted: September 12th, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Basics, In the News, Newsletter | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »
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Utilizing social media in Health IT has its challenges with complex terminology and acronyms.  Every time we tweet from @DoseSpot, the age old debate of whether to use #healthIT or #HIT comes up.  Recently launched, the Healthcare Hashtag Project curated by Symplur, a leading Healthcare Social Media Consultancy, created the project to help individuals and companies address these issues and to:

  • Find where healthcare conversations are taking place
  • Learn who to follow within a specialty or disease
  • Follow trends from conferences in real-time or in archive

The project measures everything from trending hashtags and topics to the most talked about disease states and who is leading the conversations.  We plan to utilize this tool in the following ways:

  1. Track trending hashtags when curating Tweets to increase readership
  2. Follow influential health IT voices in social media
  3. Get involved in conversations at medical meetings by utilizing official conference hashtags