Add healthcare and medical hashtags to your social media posts to target discrete niches of consumers and doctors. They’re also helpful for finding other people and influencers that share your interests.
Medical and Healthcare Hashtags
Mental Health Hashtags
#abuse — substance abuse
#add — attention deficit disorder
#adhd — attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder
#asd or #autism — autism spectrum disorders
#aspie — Asperger’s Syndrome
#bipolar — bipolar disorders
#bodyimage
#borderline — borderline personality disorder
#bpd — borderline personality disorder
#bullying — anti-bullying
#chronicpain — chronic pain issues
#cutting — self-injury
#depression — clinical depression
#did — dissociative identity disorder
#eatingdisorder
#endstigma — end mental health stigma campaign
#epatient — e-patient info
#hugsnotdrugs — drug abuse prevention
#madpride
#mentalillness
#ocd
#ppd — post-partum depression
#psychology
#selfinjury (also #cutting) — self-injury
#spoonie — "But You Don’t Look Sick"
#stress — stress
#stayalive — surviving and coping
#suicide — suicide (caution: also used in contexts not for suicide prevention; high volume)
#suicideprevention — suicide prevention info
#tbi — traumatic brain injury
#twloha — suicide prevention, To Write Love On Her Arms
#unsuicide — suicide prevention resources
#vaw — violence against women
Healthcare Hashtags
#4patients
#butyoudontlooksick
#Digitalhealth
#eHealth
#HCR (Health Care Reform)
#health
#Healthcare
#Healthit
#Hitsm (Health Care IT Social Media)
#mHealth
#QualityChat — Patient safety, quality improvement
#hcsmin — Healthcare Communications)
#hospital
#mhealth — mobile health
#emr — Electronic Medical Record
#ehr — Electronic Health Record
#hcsm — healthcare social media
#ACO — Accountable Care Organization
#ahima — American Health Information Management Association) Anything dealing with medical records, medical coding, transcription, etc.)
#HIMSS — Health Information & Management Systems Society
#mdehr — Doctors and EHR
#medicalbilling
#nurses
#HCLDR—Healthcare leaders
Technology Hashtags
#digitalhealth
#ehr — Electronic Health Record
#emr — Electronic Medical Record
#HCIT — Healthcare IT
#HCSM — Healthcare social media
#hcsmin — Healthcare Communications
#healthtech
#HIMSS — Health Information & Management Systems Society
#HITsm — Health IT social media
#mhealth — mobile health
Medical Specialty Hashtags
#doctor
#ophthalmology
#optometry
#pain
#pathology
#Pediatrics
#physician
#physiology
#ppd — post-partum depression
#PrimaryCare
#psychiatry
#psychology
Hashtags for Associations
#AmericanMedicalAssociation
#AAFP — American Academy of Family Physicians
#AHAnewsnow — American Hospital Association
#MGMA — Medical Group Management Association
#HIMSS — Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
#ACO — Accountable Care Organization)
#ahima — American Health Information Management Association
Healthcare Reform Hashtags
#ACA — Affordable Care Act
#hcr — Healthcare Reform)
#health20 — Next-generation healthcare
#healthcareforall
#Healthcosts
#HealthReform
#HIX — Health insurance exchange
#occupyhealthcare
Healthcare Hashtags
#4patients
#butyoudontlooksick
#Digitalhealth
#eHealth
#HCR — Health Care Reform
#health
#Healthcare
#Healthit
#Hitsm — Health Care IT Social Media
#mHealth
#QualityChat — Patient safety, quality improvement
#hcsmin — Healthcare Communications)
#hospital
#doctors20 — How doctors use Web 2.0
#mhealth — mobile health
#emr — Electronic Medical Record
#ehr — Electronic Health Record
#hcsm — healthcare social media
#ACO — Accountable Care Organization
#ahima — American Health Information Management Association) Anything dealing with medical records, medical coding, transcription, etc.)
#HIMSS — Health Information & Management Systems Society
#medicalbilling
#nurses
#HCLDR—Healthcare leaders
Disease Hashtags
#arthritis
#autoimmune
#autoimmunedisease
#braincancer
#cancer
#chronicallyill
#chronicfatigue
#chronicfatiguesyndrome
#chronicillness
#chronicpain
#Colitis
#depression
#dysautonomia
#eds
#ehlersdanlos
#ehlersdanlossyndrome
#endometriosis
#fatigue
#fibro
#fibrofighter
#fibromyalgia
#gastroparesis
#hypermobility
#invisibledisease
#invisibleillness
#lupus
#lymedisease
#neuroblastoma
#pain
#ra
#rheumatoidarthritis