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Contents are proprietary and confidential. 1 Radiologists & Social Media – a “Scan” Greg Matthews September 2013
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Radiologists & Social Media – a “Scan”
Greg Matthews September 2013
They’re here…
Evolving Healthcare Communications Environment
35% of patients are considered “Online
Diagnosers”1
1 Health Online 2013. Pew Internet and American Life Project. January 15, 2013 2 Understanding the Factors That Influence the Adoption and Meaningful Use of Social Media by Physicians to Share Medical Information. Journal of Medical Internet Research, Vol 14 No 5. September 24, 2012
46% of physicians contribute medical
information through social media weekly2
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SOURCE: Pew Internet: Social Networking (2013)
All Age Groups Are Using Social Media
72%
89%
78%
60%
43%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Feb-05 Aug-06 May-08 Apr-09 May-10 Aug-11 Feb-12 Aug-12 Dec-12 May-13
Social Networking Site Use by Age Group, 2005-2013 % of internet users in each age group who use social networking sites
All internet users 18-29 30-49 50-64 65+
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Personal or Professional? Yes.
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Personal or Professional? Yes.
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Personal or Professional? Yes.
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Personal or Professional? Yes.
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Personal or Professional? Yes.
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Personal or Professional? Yes.
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Personal or Professional? Yes.
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The “Big Four” - 1 billion users (600M mobile users) - Average user spends 20 mins/visit - More than 97 languages - >75% of users outside USA - Similar social networks:
w Orkut (India/Brazil – 52M users) w Bebo (United Kingdom) w Google+ (United States)
- 800M unique visits/mo - 2nd most popular search engine - 4 billion+ videos viewed/day - YouTube is localized in 53 countries
across 61 languages - 700 tweets/min contain YouTube links - Similar video sharing networks
w Vimeo (United States) w Dailymotion (France – 110M uniques/mo) w Viddy (United States)
- +200 million active users/mo - 60% access via mobile - 36% tweet at least once/day - 750 tweets/second - +50% active users follow companies,
brands or products - Similar microblog platform:
w Weibo (China – 400M users)
- 200M+ members in more than 200 countries
- 60% of members live outside the U.S. - Generates more B2B leads than Facebook - Similar professional networking sites
w Biznik (United States) w XING (Germany – 11.7M users) w Ryze Networking (United States)
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• Quick and easy connections with customers/peers
• Fastest way to move information on the web
• MDigitalLife is tracking over 10,000 US physicians using twitter
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Micro-blogging (Twitter)
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Blog: Thought Leadership
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Blog: Thought Leadership
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Physicians and Twitter
Doctors’ #1 online communication vehicle
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Physician Profiles
contain a URL in their
bio
80 %
identify themselves
clearly as such in their
twitter bio
78 %
32 %
link to a personal blog or website
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How are MDs using their accounts?
6.90% 1.90%
31.90%
37.70%
Bio URL Distribution
Business Medical Resource Personal Blog/Website Practice
of all Plastic Surgery URLs are links to their
practice
93 %
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MDs Most likely to be followed by peers*
53%
40% 34%
27%
25%
Personal Blog/Website
Business/ Organization
All_Doctors
No Bio URL
practice
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*Percentages measure MDs followed by at least 20 others in the data set
How connected are online physicians?
of all MDs are followed
by at least 20 MDs 34 %
Pediatrics
Emergency Medicine
Family Medicine
Specialties who are followed by
other MDs
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Radiologists on Twitter
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Radiologists in California
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Radiologists Gender Distribution
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76% 24% 86% 14%
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Tweet Volume: Gender
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1.3x Day 16% 1x Day
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How Many People Follow Radiologists?
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11%
17%
15%
20%
13% 14%
6% 4%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
<10 10 to 20 21 to 50 51 to 150 151 to 300 301 to 700 701 to 2000 >2000
57% have>50 followers
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Tweets per day over Past Year
20% Tweet >once/day
47%
7%
15% 12%
4% 4% 0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
<.25 .26 to .5 .5 to 1 1.1 to 3 3.1 to 7 >7
20% Tweet >once/day
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Tweets per day over Past Year
20% Tweet >once/day
47%
7%
15% 12%
4% 4% 0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
<.25 .26 to .5 .5 to 1 1.1 to 3 3.1 to 7 >7
20% Tweet >once/day
& have 8x more
followers
What do radiologists link to? • nytimes.com • auntminnie.com • 1-800-oncologist.com • instagram.com • youtube.com • medgadget.com • forbes.com • wsj.com • healthcareitnews.com • blogspot.com
• huffingtonpost.com • kevinmd.com • tumblr.com • facebook.com • acr.org • ajnr.org • nih.gov • wordpress.com • cnn.com • washingtonpost.com
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The blogs radiologists link to • subatomicdoc.tumblr.com • radsdocdancer.blogspot.com • cbseram.wordpress.com • hcldr.wordpress.com • logodays.wordpress.com • acrselect.wordpress.com • geekdoctor.blogspot.com • radiologysigns.tumblr.com • runningahospital.blogspot.com • drirwinbest.wordpress.com
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Top Hashtags used by Radiologists
leadership medtech
lcsm
research
success
HCLDR
primarycare
EHR
ACE13
digitalhealth
prsafety
hospital
pcsm
ACRbulletim
imaging3
brain
allergies
abcDrBChat
cancer
TEDMED
lungcancer
bigdata SIIM13
Socialmedia FF
quote
BestinKlas
RSNA12
MGH
grief
egypt
AUR13 HIMSS13
breastcancer
doctors
radres
IBC2012
F4S
PQI
d4pc btsm
physicians innovation
HITsm
decisionsupport endcancer
ASNR13
value
Obamacare
bcsm
health
radiologists
imaging
quality
RSNA2012
JACR
mammography
debate2012
Boston
POOL13
ARM13
breastcancer
HCSM
meded
asthma
mHealth
hpm
Healthcare
AMCLC2013
radiology
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hcldr microsoft ACA
genomics
tea
HealthIT
JACR
