Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): Conferences (Week of January 14, 2013)

First posted at THL Blog: http://wp.me/p1v84h-11u

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Most weeks I plan this post by keeping my eyes open as I do my work on Twitter, noting things I might cherry-pick through later. Today, I thought I might show other folk how to find relevant tweets easily if you don’t “live there” the way I do.

I’m starting with:

Symplur Healthcare Hashtags Project: http://www.symplur.com/healthcare-hashtags/

Notice the third column shows hashtags for conferences. I thought since so many folk have become familiar with using Twitter hashtags at conferences, this is an easy entry into the idea of Twitter and Twitter hashtags. This highlights those that are “trending”, otherwise known as currently active and popular. If I click on the hashtags at the Symplur page, it takes me to a page with a description of the conference and access to tweets and statistics about them. I can scan the tweets for those hashtags without ever going to Twitter, or I can copy the hashtags over to Twitter or a Twitter application, and browse them that way. I can also download the archive of the tweets for a specific day and time period. Whatever works for you is fine. So, pulling from the trending conference hashtags for today, and other topical hashtags listed in the tweets from those, here are some tweets.

Healthcare’s Trillion-Dollar Disruption – @forbes onforb.es/XfiKGD @chasedave #healthIT #HIMSS13

— Michelle Mangino (@MichelleMangino) January 18, 2013

Invasion of the body trackers: take me to your leader [via @verge] buff.ly/11o0yBT #2013CES #quantifiedself

— Games For Health (@gamesforhealth) January 15, 2013

At #CES2013, Alexandra von Plato discusses the important intersection of health and technology: youtube.com/watch?v=d3Mp7x… #DigiHealthCES

— Digitas Health (@Digitas_Health) January 15, 2013

Talking To Basis About The First Intelligent Fitness Tracker pulse.me/s/h89jd via @popsci #mHealth #2013CES #Health

— Elin Silveous (@ElinSilveous) January 11, 2013

RT @grishinrobotics: #3dprinting companies @stratasys @afinia_3dprint @3dsystemscorp at #2013CES @cnet grishinrobotics.com/2179 @richbcnet

— Maine FabLab (@MaineFabLab) January 16, 2013

#Gaming Technology Meets Elder Care In Europe buff.ly/11cpDQe [via @ihealthbeat] cc: @healthcarewen @gfheu #aging #2013CES

— Games For Health (@gamesforhealth) January 11, 2013

The Fork That Buzzed #CES2013 | @danmunro in @forbes onforb.es/VaIW8i @hapilabs #DigitalHealth #mHealth #Health20 #DigiHealthCES

— Paul Sonnier (@Paul_Sonnier) January 14, 2013

How do we fix healthcare.. Hot off the #2013CES press @sharecare launches HealthMakers 250 bit.ly/HealthMakers250 #digihealthces

— DigitalHealthSummit (@dhsummit) January 14, 2013

Hands-On Look@AliveCor Heart Monitor (VIDEO)via @scottjung @medgadget ow.ly/gK68F #digitalhealth #CDoM #digihealthCES @drdave01

— kim whittemore (@kimwhit) January 11, 2013

Raanan Naftalovich, a vision expert, educates consumers about the latest in computer eyewear @ #2013CES #DigiHealthCES twitter.com/Eye_Strained/s…

— The Vision Council (@Eye_Strained) January 18, 2013

Tranexamic acid within 3hrs of injury – 1g slow bolus then 1g infusion/8hrs. Reduces mortality from 16%-14.5%.#wsmlondon2013

— Alistair Steel (@alistairsteel) January 18, 2013

ATLS fanatics note: RT @alistairsteel: Full body trauma CT = 5 yrs backgrd radiation. 1 extra cancer death/1333 pts scanned.#wsmlondon2013

— thomas1973 (@thomas1973) January 18, 2013

“Making the healthy choice, the easy choice- that’s health promotion in action” #sandbox2013

— mindyourmind (@mindyourmind_ca) January 17, 2013

Helmets are not eligible for the Canadian Sport and Fitness Tax Credit.This needs to change #sandbox2013 @thesandboxproje

— Play Safe Initiative (@_playsafe) January 17, 2013

Unique nature of healthcare holding back innovation, even with consumer demand bit.ly/W54oJI #iihc13 @rittweger @medcrunch iihc.eu

— IIHC (@IIHCsummit) January 15, 2013

@brianreid Brian, check out #JPM13 digital footprint. Massive [28,422,673] impressions! bit.ly/UDVOks

— Gregg Masters (@2healthguru) January 11, 2013

Stories helping patients @ #jpm13 to #2013ces – @drbonnie360 thx for the shoutout! drbonnie360.com/post/406189331… #storytelling #mHealth

— Asthmapolis (@asthmapolis) January 17, 2013

Reynders of AstraZeneca: Value of #bigdata lies in the human element (how we query it & what we’re looking for) ow.ly/gS9g6 #JPM13

— DNAnexus, Inc. (@dnanexus) January 17, 2013

Interesting what the top 10 Tweets from the JPMorgan Health Care Conference tell us bit.ly/VQ6q3o via @brianreid #JPM13

— Aaron Strout (@AaronStrout) January 15, 2013

The best thing to come out of #jpm13? The #jpmpickuplines hashtag! How the zingers are somewhat educational one-liners: mot.ly/13mSwIX

— Fool Biotech News (@FoolBiotech) January 11, 2013

I’ve been admiring your slow burn rate -leaving you with ample assets for the foreseeable future. #jpmpickuplines

— BiopharmHunter (@BiopharmHunter) January 11, 2013

#jpmpickuplines Can’t believe no-one came up with: “How would you like to open my Leucine zipper with your Zinc finger?”

— Sunil Maulik (@sunilm1) January 11, 2013

A truism from Motley Fool article on #JPM13 – If you don’t get many of the #jpmpickuplines you probably need education on biotech sector

— BiotechStockResearch (@BiotechStockRsr) January 12, 2013