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Connecting the Dots in Healthcare Social Media Thomas M. Lee @tmlfox
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Connecting the Dotsin Healthcare Social Media
Thomas M. Lee
@tmlfox
The Healthcare Hashtag Project
The Healthcare Hashtag ProjectRate of tweets captured per day over time
30,000300,000
500,000
1,000,000
2,000,000
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Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Current
Daily Healthcare Tweets Captured
Healthcare on Twitter … global trends
• Health information technology
• Patients discussing their diseases
• Ebola crisis
• Government adoption
• Twitter Journal clubs
• Research
Healthcare on Twitter … Australia
131
Hashtags
Healthcare on Twitter … AustraliaOften mentioned users in tweets
Kim Dahl Henshaw@HenshawKim
Melissa Sweet@croakeyblog
Minh Le Cong@ketaminh
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Health Informatics Conference 2014Year over year growth
Health Informatics Conference 2014Year over year growth
2,216
5,207
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2,000
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Conference Tweets
Health Informatics Conference 2014Year over year growth
416
688
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Twitter Participants
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Health Informatics Conference 2014Year over year growth
3
10
0
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12
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Tweet Languages• English
• Indonesian
• Dutch
• French
• Turkish
• Spanish
• German
• Romanian
• Italian
• Tagalog
Health Informatics Conference 2014Stakeholder mix of top 100 tweeters
Individual Other Healthcare 39
Individual Other Non-healthcare 12
Doctor 10
HCP 10
Org. Other Healthcare 7
Researcher/Academic 5
Patient 4
Org. Other Non-healthcare 4
Org. Research/Academic 3
Caregiver/Advocate 2
Org. Advocate/Support 2
Org. Provider 1
Org. Government 1
Health Informatics Conference 2014Tweets per hour
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500 Laurie Bickhoff:
How nurses portray
themselves on social
media.
Dr. Danny Sands &
Dave deBronkhart:The power of ‘e’ in the
patient-physician
relationship
Dr. Berci Meskó:The digital future of
medicine.
Dr. Dean Sittig:Future directions for
patient safety through
health IT.
Health Informatics Conference 2014Notable tweets …
Health Informatics Conference 2014Notable tweets …
Health Informatics Conference 2014Notable tweets …
Health Informatics Conference 2014Notable tweets …
Health Informatics Conference 2014Notable tweets …
Health Informatics Conference 2014Notable tweets …
Health Informatics Conference 2014Notable tweets …
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• HISA is on the lookout for the most
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Everyone attending HIC, whether exhibitor,
sponsor or delegate …
Prizes for each …
Free ticket to HIC 2016
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