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Emory Healthcare and University Hospitals Arm Call Center Agents with Call Intelligence to Better Serve Patients

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Despite digital marketers’ best efforts to drive patients online to book appointments, most of us still choose to pick up the phone and speak to a human being. Can AI help to make the call a better experience for both sides?

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Beyond Digital: How Three Health Systems Turned Transformation into a Way of Life

// By Susan Dubuque // This year’s Mark Gothberg eHealthcare Organizational Commitment Award winners — Hackensack Meridian Health, Intermountain Health, and UCLA Health —  redefine what it means to lead in a digital-first world. Get a closer look at how each of these award-winning organizations brings its mission to life through forward-thinking digital strategies.

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Navigating Privacy, Performance, and Budget Pressures in Today’s Healthcare Marketing Landscape

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Healthcare marketers today operate in a complex environment. While privacy regulations continue to evolve, tech platforms are rapidly changing, and lawsuits remain an ongoing threat. Can privacy management tools enable marketers to ramp up performance? Read on to learn about strategic capabilities that organizations need to stay competitive.

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Transforming Patient Acquisition with AI-Powered Conversation Intelligence

Presented November 18, 2025

Discover how Emory Healthcare and University Hospitals connect the dots between digital touchpoints and phone conversations, creating seamless experiences that drive patient acquisition and retention.

Your Presenters:

  • Allyzon Zahorcak, Director, Performance Marketing, Emory Healthcare
  • Noah Brooks, Manager of Analytics & Strategy, University Hospitals
  • Lyndey Brock, Director of Account Management Health, Healthcare Vertical, Invoca

Moderated by:

  • Jane Weber Brubaker, Executive Editor, Plain-English Health Care

You’ll Learn:

  • How to track call conversions back to the exact ad or keyword that drove them.
  • How you can automate bidding strategies and optimize for high-value patient calls.
  • How to improve your website by understanding which interactions led to calls.
  • How to use digital intent data to route callers to the most qualified agent or care location, improving first-call resolution.

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AI Overviews Rewrite the Patient Journey

// By Wendy Margolin // When ChatGPT was released to the public on a massive scale a mere three years ago, eager early adopters headed to an AI URL of their choice to test-drive a new tool while others steered clear. Learn how AI is changing healthcare search and how healthcare organizations should respond.

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AI Search Is Rewriting the Content Marketing Rules

// By Devin Healy // Building search strategies in response to the rise of AI-generated search results can feel like throwing darts at the computer screen. Tried-and-true playbooks marketers use for SEO and SEM are yielding entirely different results. Today, success means being cited and synthesized by AI models, a transformation that demands a strategic reboot.

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2025 eHealthcare Leadership Award Winners Announced    

// By Susan Dubuque // Winners of the 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards were announced on November 9th at an awards presentation held during the Healthcare Internet Conference. More than 270 organizations were recognized for their outstanding work. Winners of Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Distinction awards represent 18 industry classifications, from hospitals and health systems to pharmaceutical firms.

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Winning Digital Playbooks: How Three Health Systems Scored Big with Bold Campaign Strategies

// By Susan Dubuque // Digital marketing leaders from Ochsner Health, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and Vandalia Health Mon share strategies that earned them national recognition for Best Digital Campaign. Learn how these three teams transformed smart digital strategies into measurable business impact.

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Pamela Landis Joins Editorial Advisory Board of eHealthcare Strategy & Trends

I’m pleased to announce that Pamela Landis has joined the eHST Editorial Advisory Board. Pamela is senior vice president of digital engagement at Hackensack Meridian Health, a $9 billion health network in New Jersey. She leads a team responsible for making access to and management of healthcare easier for patients, consumers, providers, and team members.

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Digital Showcase: The Well by Northwell Brings Humanity Back to Health Content

// By Susan Dubuque // Northwell Health’s digital campaign tackles one of healthcare’s toughest challenges: rebuilding trust in a noisy and confusing environment. Discover how this award-winning campaign uses expert-driven content in consumer-friendly formats to connect with audiences and drive measurable business results.

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Focus On Digital Content: Telling Stories to Drive Patient Engagement — New Formats and Emerging Tools

In this new report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends examines real-world examples of engaging, authentic digital content that can help hospitals and health systems connect more effectively with their communities.

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From Reactive to Proactive: The Rise of Agentic AI in Healthcare

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Agentic AI is forecast to make 15 percent of work decisions by 2028. Healthcare organizations can prepare by aligning human intelligence, technology, and governance to accelerate innovation. Here, we look at the potential for agentic AI to solve healthcare’s biggest problems, and share a successful case study featuring NYC Health + Hospitals.

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Beyond the Website: How Healthcare Organizations Navigate AI Discovery, Composable Tech, and Changing Patient Behavior

// By Therese Lockemy, MBA // Healthcare digital leaders from Children’s Nebraska, Rochester Regional Health, UCI Health, and industry experts from Reason One and Schema App share practical strategies for navigating AI search, composable architecture, and the evolving patient journey. Discover how leading healthcare organizations are building flexible, future-ready digital experiences that meet patients wherever they are.

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Beyond the Banner Ad: Digital Campaigns that Work

Presented October 8, 2025

Panelists:

  • Matt King, solutions consultant, population intelligence, Definitive Healthcare
  • Amy Arnold, senior paid social media manager, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
  • Alexis Castano, digital marketing consultant, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
  • Eric Fullmer, digital marketing manager, Ochsner Health
  • Jenna Rabideau, marketing specialist, Senior, Vandalia Health Mon

Moderator:

  • Susan Dubuque, Contributing Editor, eHealthcare Strategy & Trends and Co-Chair, 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • Tips to make your programmatic buy more effective and efficient.
  • How to balance brand and performance marketing through digital channels.
  • Strategies for successful product line marketing.
  • How a leading healthcare organization orchestrated a campaign with tactical precision, leveraging advanced Demand Side Platform (DSP) technology.

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How Ochsner’s Connected MOM Program Closes Gaps in Maternal Health

// By Althea Fung // The United States has one of the highest maternal mortality rates among developed nations. Ochsner Health’s Connected MOM program rewrites the script on maternal mortality with remote monitoring and digital education. Read on to learn how this program helps flag problems before they become emergencies.

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Digital Showcase: Valley Children’s Brings Its Story to Life in a Digital-First Annual Report

// By Susan Dubuque // Valley Children’s Healthcare wanted its 2023 annual report to be more than a retrospective. The health system reimagined the experience as an immersive, digital-first storytelling platform. Discover how Valley Children’s created its digital report, the channels used for sharing it, the unique design features, and the impact it achieved.

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SEO in the Age of AI and Google Overviews: Winning Digital Visibility in Healthcare

Presented on September 24, 2025

Your Presenters:

  • Brandon Schakola, SEO Expert & Digital Marketing Lead, Healthcare Success
  • Maelina Frattaroli, Lead Copywriter and Content Strategist, Connecticut Children’s
  • Pamela Landis, Vice President, Digital Engagement, Hackensack Meridian Health

Moderated by:

  • Stewart Gandolf, CEO, Healthcare Success

You’ll Learn:

  • Why old-school keywords are obsolete — and what’s replacing them
  • How to secure visibility in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, and beyond
  • Why being a trusted authority, thought leader, and omnipresent brand is now non-negotiable
  • Realistic solutions for the “disappearing traffic” crisis and ongoing LLM visibility battles
  • Concrete steps to find and fill your content gaps, and measure today’s AI-driven success

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AI in Healthcare Marketing: Moving Beyond Iteration to Transformation

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // eHealthcare Strategy & Trends invites you to join us during AI in Healthcare Marketing Week, a new virtual summit for healthcare marketers and digital strategists, December 8-12, 2025. Join our stellar lineup of industry thought leaders and learn how AI transforms Content Strategies, Data-Driven Marketing, Workflow Optimization, Enterprise Design, and more.

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How AI Enhances Human Marketing Intelligence in Healthcare

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // AI’s ability to analyze large datasets at scale gives marketers “a world of possibilities” for thinking and planning strategically. In this Ask the Expert Q&A, Amanda Herriman discusses how AI is reshaping digital behavior, and why healthcare organizations need to adapt their content strategies for tools like Google’s AI Overviews.

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Winning the Talent Game: Digital Strategies for Recruitment & Retention

Presented on September 9, 2025

Panelists:

  • Shannon Curran, chief marketing officer, Unlock Health
  • Alex Fagundes, marketing business partner, Renown Health
  • Jenny Collopy, vice president, chief marketing and communications officer, The Christ Hospital Health Network

Moderator:

  • Susan Dubuque, Contributing Editor, eHealthcare Strategy & Trends and Co-Chair, 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

Here is what you can expect:

  • How leading health systems are using digital marketing to attract top talent across clinical and non-clinical roles.
  • How to incorporate employee voices into your recruitment and retention marketing.
  • Successful strategies to attract “hard to recruit” health care professionals.
  • Tactics for retaining employees.
  • Proven ways to reach younger healthcare workers.
  • Much more.

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The Future of Hospital Websites: Navigating AI, Search, UX, and the Shift to Composable Architecture

Presented September 3, 2025

Your Presenters:

  • Michael Kinkaid, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Reason One
  • Laura Housholder, Digital Marketing Manager, Children’s Nebraska
  • Martha van Berkel, co-founder and CEO, Schema App
  • Tyler Pierce, Director of Digital Engagement, Rochester Regional Health
  • Tara Nooteboom, Director of Consumer Digital Strategy, UCI Health

Moderated by:

  • Therese Lockemy, Founder and Principal Consultant, Inner Path Digital, L.L.C

Join us as our panelists explore how you can:

  • Develop a strategic approach to website transformation that aligns technology choices with organizational goals and patient needs
  • Make smart platform decisions by understanding the real differences between major platforms and when composable solutions make sense
  • Build flexible foundations using composable architecture to future-proof your investment and enable rapid adaptation
  • Implement AI thoughtfully with clear use cases that enhance rather than complicate the patient experience, from intelligent search to automated scheduling to personalized content delivery
  • Improve findability and discoverability through advanced SEO, schema markup, and optimizing for how patients now search using generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI overviews
  • Create governance models that balance innovation with security, compliance, and the need for strategic oversight

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Access, Experience, and Market Intelligence Drive Strategic Growth

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // In a recent webinar, three marketing leaders took the conversation about customer growth up a notch — from patient acquisition tactics and media spend to what should be the heart of effective strategies. Learn how they view the challenges and opportunities of growth, where to focus efforts, and how to grow smarter.

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Digital Showcase: Reaching Physicians — and Keeping Them Engaged

// By Susan Dubuque // When it comes to physician communications, relevance is everything. Trinity Health of New England has cracked the code, delivering timely, specialty-specific updates that physicians actually look forward to opening — and the numbers prove it. Read on to learn how THOfNE planned, executed, and measured this high-impact digital engagement strategy.

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Go All In on Digital Marketing Success at HCIC 2025

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // We asked people who have supported HCIC for many years what makes it such a valuable conference that they keep coming back year after year. Here, we share their comments and highlight sessions you won’t want to miss. Join healthcare marketing leaders and innovators, November 9-12 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.

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Focus On Hospital Websites: Get Proven Tactics to Boost Findability, Engagement, and Conversions

In this new report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, you’ll discover how leading hospitals and health systems around the country optimize their websites to attract patients, improve user experience, and strengthen their digital brand presence.

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