Twitter for Healthcare

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 […]