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Overview A Twitter chat took place on the 15th of November 2018 at 20:30 SAST | 13:30 EST | 18:30 BST | 20:30 CAT to discuss achieving the Antimicrobial Resistance Strategic Goals for Africa. The chat session was moderated on behalf of the South African Antibiotic Stewardship Programme (SAASP) by the Twitter handle @hcsmSA and participants […]

Twitter metrics from a Public Health Conference in South Africa – #PHASA2018 The Public Health Association of South Africa’s Annual Conference (#PHASA2018) took place between 10-12 September 2018 in the Free State, South Africa. The theme for this year’s event was Health for All in commemoration of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) 70th-Anniversary and the signing […]

Why does your tweet matter to healthcare? Everything on the web accumulates data even on social media platforms like Twitter. Twitter is categorised as an online microblogging system within the web 2.0 ecosystem that enables users to send and read short 280-character posts called “tweets” as demonstrated in the Conversation Prism which is a visual map […]

Why should South African health care about standard hashtags? If you know about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) you will have heard the term analytics before. According to Wikipedia, analytics are the discovery, interpretation and communication of meaningful patterns in data. Especially valuable in areas rich with recorded information, analytics relies on the simultaneous application of […]

How to hashtag healthcare geographically on social media As far as social media in the South African healthcare industry goes, more users are emerging by the day. The issue we still face locally is the effective use of hashtags. hcsmSA is an acronym for Health Care Communications and Social Media South Africa and is one […]