The Healthcare Experience Patients Actually Want: A Roadmap to Digital Transformation

Brian Carlson

Patients today want more. They want digital experiences that are fast, easy, and personalized. If your healthcare organization doesn’t keep up, it’s time for a serious digital makeover. Here’s how to create a roadmap that boosts patient loyalty, reduces friction, and makes your organization feel like the user-friendly apps patients like using.

What It Takes to Succeed with Digital Front-Door Strategies

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// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Collaboration, consolidation, and centralization are key factors in creating a successful enterprise digital front-door strategy. Digital leaders from UW Medicine and AtlantiCare weigh in on how they win. Read on to learn more from our panel of experts about how they work through the challenges of digital transformation to achieve success.

Orlando Health Builds Connections and Achieves Results Through a Robust Digital Strategy

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// By Susan Dubuque // Effectively engaging with patients, physicians, employees, and community members means going beyond traditional communication methods. Orlando Health has embraced this challenge head-on, creating an expansive digital communication strategy that meets people where they are. Discover how this omnichannel strategy drives engagement, builds trust, and delivers measurable impact across all audiences.

25 Instagram Posts to Spark Social Media Creativity in 2025

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// By Melissa Sher // ​​Those who work in social media for a hospital or large healthcare institution may feel choice overload regularly. The task of choosing what to highlight and how to highlight it can feel overwhelming. Here, we highlight 25 Instagram posts from your colleagues at hospitals across the country that stand out.

UChicago Medicine Uses Geofencing and Geopathing to Engage Niche Audiences

Andrew Perry

In the fall of 2023, when HIPAA laws left a giant black hole in healthcare providers’ targeted marketing campaigns, UChicago Medicine marketers successfully targeted a niche audience, using digital programmatic out-of-home (pDOOH) advertising, geofencing, and geopathing. Learn how this tactic allows them to target visitors while also capturing audience information for retargeting.

Building Healthcare Experiences Patients Love

Jennifer Carron

// By Elaine Christie // Patients today want more. They want digital experiences that are fast, easy, and personalized. If your healthcare organization doesn’t keep up, it’s time for a serious digital makeover. Here’s how to create a roadmap that boosts patient loyalty, reduces friction, and makes your organization feel like the user-friendly apps patients like using.

Healthcare Marketing in the Privacy Era: Embracing the Consumer Mindset

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Join us for a free webinar on Wednesday January 15, 2025 at 2 p.m.

Your Presenters:

  • Stephanie Downing, Manager of Digital Communications, St. Elizabeth Healthcare
  • Ray Mina, Vice President, Marketing & Interim Vice President, Product Freshpaint

You’ll learn:

  • Why delivering an exceptional online experience is a competitive imperative.
  • Why privacy concerns have made consumerization so difficult in healthcare.
  • How you can overcome these challenges.
  • What it means to be privacy-first.
  • How to build a durable, privacy-first foundation.
  • How this foundation will help you improve ROI and enhance patient loyalty.

And much more!

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Beyond Tactics: How to Build a Digital Front Door Strategy for Your Enterprise

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Join us for a lively conversation with our panel of experts who will share their experiences working in or with major health systems and how they build effective enterprise-wide digital front door strategies informed by comprehensive consumer and market intelligence.

Your Presenters:

  • Margo Schneider, Assistant Vice President, Digital Strategy & Operations, UW Medicine
  • Zain Ismail, Senior Director, Digital Health & Transformation, Strategic Advisory Services, AVIA
  • Otto Angulo, Senior Director, Digital Consumer Engagement, AtlantiCare
  • Mike Julian, Principal Consultant, Population Intelligence & Activation Populi, a Definitive Healthcare Company

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Provider Data Management: Backbone of Effective Healthcare Marketing

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// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Without a solid provider data management foundation and strategy, your best marketing efforts may land with a thud. Here, we share highlights from a recent webinar, showing how Summit Health centralized its provider data into a single source of truth that enables patients and referring physicians to find the right providers.

Sprint to Success: Lessons from Targeting a Niche Audience at the Chicago Marathon

// By Wendy Margolin // In the fall of 2023, when HIPAA laws left a giant black hole in healthcare providers’ targeted marketing campaigns, UChicago Medicine marketers successfully targeted a niche audience, using digital programmatic out-of-home (pDOOH) advertising, geofencing, and geopathing. Learn how this tactic allows them to target visitors while also capturing audience information for retargeting.

Bringing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to Life in Today’s Healthcare Environment

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// By Susan Dubuque // The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted health disparities in the U.S., which disproportionately affected vulnerable and underserved communities. This article will present examples of DEI in action through three award-winning entries in the Best Digital Leadership in Health Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion category from the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards.

2024 eHealthcare Awards Honor Outstanding Digital Healthcare Initiatives

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This year marks the 25th anniversary of the eHealthcare Leadership Awards. The winners were announced on November 10 at an awards presentation held during the Healthcare Internet Conference (HCIC). The eHealthcare Leadership Awards recognize outstanding health websites and digital initiatives, highlighting the role of digital communications in achieving healthcare organizations’ business objectives.

2024 eHealthcare Leadership Award Winners Announced

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// By Susan Dubuque // This year marks the 25th anniversary of the eHealthcare Leadership Awards. The winners were announced on November 10 at an awards presentation held during the Healthcare Internet Conference (HCIC). The eHealthcare Leadership Awards recognize outstanding health websites and digital initiatives, highlighting the role of digital communications in achieving healthcare organizations’ business objectives.

A Marketer’s Guide to Security

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Download this whitepaper to get essential strategies you can adopt to safeguard patient data and maintain system integrity.

You’ll learn:

  • How to overcome the security challenges of outdated systems.
  • Why marketing systems are most vulnerable to security risks, and how they can be fortified.
  • How to use security protocols and regulation as agents of positive change.
  • Effective ways to advocate for security measures to internal and external stakeholders.
  • A checklist to take account of your tech stack and identify where to focus your efforts to enhance security and efficiency.
  • And much more!

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How to Build Your Healthcare Consumer Experience Roadmap — for 2025 and Beyond

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Your Presenters:

  • Jennifer Carron Passon, CPXP, MSOM, Patient Experience Officer, BJC HealthCare
  • Brian Carlson, VP of Patient Experience, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Justin Dearborn, Founder and CEO, Praia Health

Moderated by:

  • Jared Johnson, Chief Marketing Officer at Praia Health and eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Editorial Advisory Board Member

You’ll learn:

  • How to create or update your organization’s consumer experience strategy based on insights from forward-thinking institutions.
  • Effective change management strategies to accelerate and gain buy-in for consumer experience initiatives
  • How marketing leaders effectively collaborate with others who have consumer experience responsibilities without derailing other priorities and investments.
  • How to evaluate new digital platforms and the possibilities that they open for connecting consumer experiences beyond the clinical encounter.

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Do You Have to Compromise Between Regulatory Adherence and Analytical Power?

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Healthcare organizations face a significant challenge. Integration of advanced analytics with stringent HIPAA compliance requirements presents a complex landscape to navigate. As data-driven decision-making becomes the industry standard, demand for robust, HIPAA-compliant analytics solutions grows increasingly vital. Do you have to compromise between regulatory adherence and analytical power?

How Healthcare Marketers Can Balance Privacy Regulations and Personalization

// By Erin Killion // Stymied by privacy laws that hinder you from targeting and measuring your online marketing efforts? Maybe it’s an opportunity to consider new strategies. In this article, we explore some innovative approaches that will help you connect with consumers in meaningful ways while keeping consumer privacy in mind.

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