The Untapped Data Analytics Power of Symplur - Pharmacy Podcast Episode 339

How has Twitter impacted your pharmacy business? Josh Lurie, Partner & Member of Board of Directors of Symplur joins the podcast to help our pharmacy industry discover the untapped power of Symplur Signals. Quoting an article from June 15, 2016 “Tech Republic” columnist Jason Hiner writes, “From the 1980s until the past several years, when people heard about breaking news via word-of-mouth they typically turned to network news such as Fox or CNN. Today, they turn to Twitter. A recent Pew Research study found that 62% of US adults now get news from social media, up from 49% in 2012.” I am one of these people who will access my Twitter account before any direct news source because it’s faster, more sincere, and provides a diverse perspective on the same topic or news story. There’s no other organization better positioned to demonstrate the power of Twitter in healthcare than Symplur. With their well-designed “Healthcare Hashtag” Project launching in 2011, Symplur has been researching thousands of hashtags (subject matter) specific to our healthcare industry, scientific research, patient trends, CDC reports, and industry conference interactions, to name a few. Symplur Signals promotes deep understanding of healthcare as seen by patients, doctors and other stakeholders with real-time access to insights from over a billion healthcare social media data points. The richness of data here is mind boggling and if you’re not seeing the value yet, be sure to check out Symplur for yourself. Take the specialty pharmacy industry for example. Genentech's Avastin is a cancer medication that interferes with the growth and spread of cancer cells in the body. The anti-cancer drug is used to treat a certain type of brain tumor, and certain types of cancers of the cervix, kidney, lung, colon, and rectum. If specialty pharmacies researched specific hashtag keywords using Twitter such as #CervicalCancerthey could quickly find articles, physicians, insurance providers, and most importantly patients participating in a worldwide conversation about Cervical Cancer. Not only could these patient-care providers reach out to these patients directly through Twitter but strategically could become a digital health industry subject matter expert within that specific subject-topic or hashtag. The Pharmacy Podcast Show will be publishing a series on leveraging the power of healthcare hashtags, which will include a fascinating interview with Symplur executives. Be sure to subscribe to the show and reach out to learn how your Pharmacy business can see a significant benefit using Twitter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices