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Recap: Top 17 Tweets from HIMSS15

April 22, 2015
By
phil

broke social media records with 90,740 total tweets - the most for a conference ever. With more than 50 million impressions, 2,200 tweets per hour by the middle of and 80 tweets per minute by the middle of day two (see below - source: SCRAAWL), #HIMSS15 was blowing up on social media.As a recap, here are the top 17 tweets from HIMSS15's 40,000+ health IT pros.

HIMSS Tweeting Frequency

1. #HIMSS15 started on Twitter with 1 cup of coffee and was already breaking records

Good morning ! Day 1 and we are ALREADY breaking records with 40, 182 HIT pros taking Chicago! — HIMSS (@HIMSS)

2. More than 40,000 HIT enthusiasts attended #HIMSS15...

If 40,000 people go to at a cost of $2,000 per person - are we adding $80,000,000 in value to health care system?— Sherry Reynolds (@Cascadia)

3. and drank more than 32,000 cups of coffee

attendees drink 32,000+ cups of coffee in 5 days! Don't come between pros & ! — HIMSS (@HIMSS)

4. Day 1 started with a BANG with the most retweet tweet about keynote Alex W. Gourlay - President of Walgreen

WELCOMING President, Alex W. Gourlay to the stage! Sharing a vision for human wellness. — HIMSS (@HIMSS)

5. In his keynote, Alex Gourlay shared his vision for human wellness

VIDEO: President of Walgreens Alex Gourlay opens with a video of their plans in — ²ÝÝ®ÉçÇø (@²ÝÝ®ÉçÇø)

6. He also had some time support #RedNoseDay to call out childhood poverty

Board Chair & President, Alex Gourlay call out childhood poverty at . — HIMSS (@HIMSS)

7. By midday Day 1, #HIMSS15 started to take over Twitter

Awesome view of Twitter Storm that hit Chicago yesterday. Thanks . Expect tornadoes today! — Rasu Shrestha MD MBA (@RasuShrestha)

8. Also on Day 1, the Exhibition Hall opened...

After a lot of hard work, the Exhibition Hall is NOW OPEN! — HIMSS (@HIMSS)

9. which Regina Holliday had comments on

If I had a booth at HIMSS I would make it the form of a maze to replicate the experience most patients face navigating healthcare — Regina Holliday (@ReginaHolliday)

10. At #HIMSS15, security was a hot topic

Average cost of data breach is $5.4M. Near misses cost about $400K a pop. Are you considering these hidden costs? — Healthcare IT News (@HITNewsTweet)

11. "Population Health" was also a buzzword

"Population health" wins this year's buzzword award. Have yet to hear it defined the same way twice.— Kevin Kumler (@KevinKumler)

12. "Big Data Analytics" was termed the next phase of Health IT adoption

.: "Big data analytics is the next phase of health IT adoption." (via )

— AMA (@AmerMedicalAssn)

13. NPWF started #NoMUwithoutMe movement

Tell one patient isn't meaningful enough. Then change your profile to show support. — National Partnership (@NPWF)

14. We learned that "Patient Engagement" was among top priorities for providers

HIMSS15: Patient engagement among top priorities for providers — Healthcare IT Expert (@HCITExpert)

15. and "analytics", "cloud" and "mobile" among the top priorities for CIOs

Top 10 CIO tech priorities 2015 —Gartner

1 Analytics
2 Data Center
3 Cloud
4 ERP
5 Mobile
6 Marketing


— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar)

16. We learned physicians cite greatest concerns with value-based payment models...

cite greatest concerns with value-based payment models.

— Deloitte Health Care (@DeloitteHealth)

17. and that 74% of physicians indicated that IT was critical in helping their organization achieve successful care coordination.

11 key findings from the HIMSS Leadership Survey: via

— HIMSS (@HIMSS)

Final Thoughts

#HIMSS15 was the biggest conference yet. There was lots of energy and good discussion about the future Health IT. And none of this more evident than the massive amounts of activity on twitter.Have any other tweets that you liked from #HIMSS15? Let us know. Also, if you enjoyed this post, please TWEET it using the social media buttons below. Thanks!

Recap: Top 17 Tweets from HIMSS15

Posted by:
phil
on
April 22, 2015

broke social media records with 90,740 total tweets - the most for a conference ever. With more than 50 million impressions, 2,200 tweets per hour by the middle of and 80 tweets per minute by the middle of day two (see below - source: SCRAAWL), #HIMSS15 was blowing up on social media.As a recap, here are the top 17 tweets from HIMSS15's 40,000+ health IT pros.

HIMSS Tweeting Frequency

1. #HIMSS15 started on Twitter with 1 cup of coffee and was already breaking records

Good morning ! Day 1 and we are ALREADY breaking records with 40, 182 HIT pros taking Chicago! — HIMSS (@HIMSS)

2. More than 40,000 HIT enthusiasts attended #HIMSS15...

If 40,000 people go to at a cost of $2,000 per person - are we adding $80,000,000 in value to health care system?— Sherry Reynolds (@Cascadia)

3. and drank more than 32,000 cups of coffee

attendees drink 32,000+ cups of coffee in 5 days! Don't come between pros & ! — HIMSS (@HIMSS)

4. Day 1 started with a BANG with the most retweet tweet about keynote Alex W. Gourlay - President of Walgreen

WELCOMING President, Alex W. Gourlay to the stage! Sharing a vision for human wellness. — HIMSS (@HIMSS)

5. In his keynote, Alex Gourlay shared his vision for human wellness

VIDEO: President of Walgreens Alex Gourlay opens with a video of their plans in — ²ÝÝ®ÉçÇø (@²ÝÝ®ÉçÇø)

6. He also had some time support #RedNoseDay to call out childhood poverty

Board Chair & President, Alex Gourlay call out childhood poverty at . — HIMSS (@HIMSS)

7. By midday Day 1, #HIMSS15 started to take over Twitter

Awesome view of Twitter Storm that hit Chicago yesterday. Thanks . Expect tornadoes today! — Rasu Shrestha MD MBA (@RasuShrestha)

8. Also on Day 1, the Exhibition Hall opened...

After a lot of hard work, the Exhibition Hall is NOW OPEN! — HIMSS (@HIMSS)

9. which Regina Holliday had comments on

If I had a booth at HIMSS I would make it the form of a maze to replicate the experience most patients face navigating healthcare — Regina Holliday (@ReginaHolliday)

10. At #HIMSS15, security was a hot topic

Average cost of data breach is $5.4M. Near misses cost about $400K a pop. Are you considering these hidden costs? — Healthcare IT News (@HITNewsTweet)

11. "Population Health" was also a buzzword

"Population health" wins this year's buzzword award. Have yet to hear it defined the same way twice.— Kevin Kumler (@KevinKumler)

12. "Big Data Analytics" was termed the next phase of Health IT adoption

.: "Big data analytics is the next phase of health IT adoption." (via )

— AMA (@AmerMedicalAssn)

13. NPWF started #NoMUwithoutMe movement

Tell one patient isn't meaningful enough. Then change your profile to show support. — National Partnership (@NPWF)

14. We learned that "Patient Engagement" was among top priorities for providers

HIMSS15: Patient engagement among top priorities for providers — Healthcare IT Expert (@HCITExpert)

15. and "analytics", "cloud" and "mobile" among the top priorities for CIOs

Top 10 CIO tech priorities 2015 —Gartner

1 Analytics
2 Data Center
3 Cloud
4 ERP
5 Mobile
6 Marketing


— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar)

16. We learned physicians cite greatest concerns with value-based payment models...

cite greatest concerns with value-based payment models.

— Deloitte Health Care (@DeloitteHealth)

17. and that 74% of physicians indicated that IT was critical in helping their organization achieve successful care coordination.

11 key findings from the HIMSS Leadership Survey: via

— HIMSS (@HIMSS)

Final Thoughts

#HIMSS15 was the biggest conference yet. There was lots of energy and good discussion about the future Health IT. And none of this more evident than the massive amounts of activity on twitter.Have any other tweets that you liked from #HIMSS15? Let us know. Also, if you enjoyed this post, please TWEET it using the social media buttons below. Thanks!

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