Open AccessRare Cancers and Social Media: Analysis of Twitter Metrics in the First 2 Years of a Rare-Disease Community for Myeloproliferative Neoplasms on Social Media—#MPNSM
Author(s) -
Naveen Pemmaraju,
Audun Utengen,
Vikas Gupta,
JeanJacques Kiladjian,
Ruben A. Mesa,
Michael A. Thompson
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
current hematologic malignancy reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.299
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1558-822X
pISSN - 1558-8211
DOI - 10.1007/s11899-017-0421-y
Subject(s) - social media , social media analytics , internet privacy , field (mathematics) , health care , categorization , order (exchange) , analytics , public relations , medicine , computer science , world wide web , data science , political science , business , law , mathematics , finance , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics
The use of social media has now become a standard means of communication for many individuals worldwide. The use of one specific form of social media, Twitter, has increased among healthcare providers, both as a means of information gathering and as a conduit for original content creation. Recently, major efforts by users have been put forward to help streamline the unprecedented amount of information that can be found on Twitter. These efforts have led to the creation of diseasespecific hashtag (#) medical communities and have greatly enhanced the ability to understand and better categorize the available data on Twitter. Specifically, for those involved in rare cancer fields, adhering to organically designed and consistently used hashtags has led to the rapid, reliable dissemination of information and the ability to efficiently discuss and debate topics of interest in the field. For the field of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), the creation of #MPNSM (myeloproliferative neoplasms on social media) in 2015 has facilitated interactions among healthcare stakeholders from all over the world in the MPN field.