You will immediately receive a confirmation email about the submission. We will send this email to the Symplur Account you were logged in with during submission.

Once submitted, the hashtag will be pending approval. We receive over 100 hashtag submissions each week, and each is manually vetted for appropriateness for inclusion in the Healthcare Hashtag Project.

Approval times vary depending on the number of submissions we are working our way through, but on average it’s about 7 days.

If the hashtag is approved you will receive an email notification, and a tweet will be automatically sent out from our Twitter account @healthhashtags announcing the new hashtag and, unless you opt-out, mentioning the Twitter account you authenticated with during submission.

We will start tracking the tweets coming in on this new hashtag immediately, and we will also receive tweets from the prior 30 days.

Hashtags submitted to the Healthcare Hashtag Project are not automatically or immediately published.

Each goes through a manual review to determine if it is appropriate for this project or not. On average only about 25% of those hashtags submitted are published.

It's not being used at all, or its use is extremely limited.

It's not being widely enough adopted for use by multiple parties (we focus on original tweets rather than simple retweets).

It's a hashtag that already has another conversation attached to it (healthcare or not), thereby making the tweet-stream too messy and off-topic.

It's being used in what largely amounts to one-way commercial messages.

You can learn more about our process in this article.

It's easy to update a published hashtag. We outline the steps in this article.