Health system zeitgeist : how tweets can provide real-time insight into the health system

Members of the health care workforce and health care practitioner organizations are amongst those who make use of micro-blogging services such as Twitter, to share news and updates. In this paper we propose a system to gauge across the health system and in particular in relation to the practitioners whom make use of this media system, based upon URLs tweeted and shared, what are the current topics of interest and perspectives. In this way, the proposed system enables new abilities for gathering insights into the real-time, system-wide status of a health industry, for example, the most frequently occurring themes or the most frequently health-related URLs shared by the health systems workforce.