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Privacy Enhancing Technologies: A Potential Solution to Privacy Concerns?

Anthony Katsur

Healthcare marketers have been scrambling to find ways to reclaim the data analytics they’ve grown accustomed to while also staying in compliance with HIPAA and its latest dictates, published in a bulletin from HHS last December. On the other side of the fence, the AdTech world has been working just as feverishly to retain its Read More

A Year in Privacy: Concerns, Challenges, and Remediations

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What marketers need to know now to navigate the changing landscape and what lies ahead. // By Daniel Fell // The issue of pixel tracking tied to third-party website analytics tools was the big story of 2022 and 2023. It’s been about a year and a half — June 2022 to be exact — since Read More

Should Influencer Marketing Be Part of Your Marketing Mix?

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When you think of influencer marketing, do celebrities like LeBron James and Taylor Swift and their millions of followers come to mind? Ochsner Health is thinking small, successfully leveraging “micro-influencers” — those with 1,000 followers or more — to get the word out in Louisiana about choosing healthy habits. Ochsner chose to tap into the Read More

The Power of Personalized Patient Retention Marketing

Bridget Reuter

How Virtua Health tracked marketing efforts to revenue dollars and patient outcomes. // By Wendy Margolin // Imagine tracking the direct patient journey from receiving a piece of marketing content to undergoing life-saving surgery. You could measure the direct correlation of your hospital marketing communication team’s effort to improve patient outcomes. It’s every healthcare marketer’s Read More

An Unfiltered Conversation About AI — With AI Itself

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Editor’s Note: We’ve done a lot of Q&A’s over the years, but never with AI. Until now. The following interview takes place with a conversational chatbot called Pi, recently released by the company Inflection AI, started by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman in 2022. Inflection AI is working on a variety of machine learning and generative Read More

How to Influence People to Choose Healthy Habits

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Influencer marketing is inexpensive and drives engagement — should it be part of your marketing mix? Ochsner Health says yes. // By Jane Weber Brubaker //        When you think of influencer marketing, do celebrities like LeBron James and Taylor Swift and their millions of followers come to mind? Ochsner Health is thinking Read More

Everything You Wanted to Know About AI and Healthcare Marketing

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A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends webinar for healthcare marketers and strategists

Your Presenters:

  • Rachelle Montano, Vice President of Clinical Strategy, Loyal
  • Matt Cohen, Director of AI, Loyal

You’ll learn:

  • About different types of AI technologies and their real use cases.
  • How to evaluate AI-based solutions for your organization and get past the hype.
  • Concrete ways that AI technologies are enhancing marketing today.
  • Where the biggest risks lurk for healthcare marketers and when you need to proceed with caution.
  • How to safely test the waters before diving in … so you can avoid the dangers posed by being left behind.
  • What the future holds.

And much more!

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2023 eHealthcare Awards Honor Outstanding Digital Healthcare Communications

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Winners of the 24th Annual eHealthcare Leadership Awards were announced on November 5, at a special 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. This leading awards program draws approximately 1,000 entries annually. It exclusively recognizes Read More

2023 eHealthcare Leadership Award Winners Announced

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// By Matt Humphrey and Susan Dubuque // Winners of the 24th Annual eHealthcare Leadership Awards were announced on November 5, at a special 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. This leading awards program draws approximately Read More

4 Tips for Maintaining HIPAA Compliance and Managing Online Tracking Risks

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Digital marketing got a lot riskier when HHS rolled out its “Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates” bulletin last December. What steps should you take to manage the risks? Change often feels like the only constant in the world of healthcare marketing. And oh, what a year of change! Read More

My Interview with AI — About AI

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// By Daniel Fell // Editor’s Note: We’ve done a lot of Q&A’s over the years, but never with AI. Until now. The following interview takes place with a conversational chatbot called Pi, recently released by the company Inflection AI, started by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman in 2022. Inflection AI is working on a variety machine Read More

Overcoming Your Digital Challenges With Effective Change Management

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How is it possible that a health system operating in four U.S. states and three countries in Central and South America with 50,000 employees would be invisible to search engines — unless you searched on it by name? Take cardiology for example. CHRISTUS Health has a 100-bed heart hospital in Tyler, Texas. It is the Read More

Traffic Risks: Next Steps for Tracking Pixels and HIPAA Compliance

Christie-Elaine

Digital marketing got a lot riskier when HHS rolled out its “Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates” bulletin last December. What steps should you take to manage the risks? // By Elaine Christie // Change often feels like the only constant in the world of healthcare marketing. And oh, Read More

HIPAA Compliance FAQs: Your Guide to Healthcare Data Protection

Josh Kinney,

Have questions about how to manage tracking technologies in light of HHS/OCR guidance? So do your peers. Here are some answers from two technology leaders. “When HHS and OCR opened up a huge can of worms last December, they created some chaos in the universe of healthcare marketers who work for entities covered by HIPAA,” Read More

A Recipe for Success: Leveraging Market Research Insights to Support Patients

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On a journey to “future proof” its marketing, Fresenius Kidney Care started in the most unlikely of places: recipes. As with any chronic illness, diet dramatically affects a patient’s success. But a kidney disease-friendly diet has more restrictions and requirements than most. One in seven U.S. adults have kidney disease, and one in three don’t Read More

Finding The Perfect Match: Building a Provider Finder That Delivers Results

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Download this new free case study to learn how Scripps Health took its provider search from good to great.

You’ll learn:

  • Why Scripps Health felt that a custom solution would help them put patients’ needs first
  • The key elements of a great provider search experience
  • How to integrate marketing and referral campaigns into the care search experience
  • How data from scheduled appointments can influence strategic decisionmaking — and why this makes the ability to share this data crucially important
  • And much more!

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How Your Health System Website Can Be Your Best Digital Salesperson

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Against a backdrop of rapidly emerging digital marketing tools, the venerable website deserves as much attention as ever. Your website should be your best salesperson. It’s often the first point of contact with your company’s products and services for the majority of potential customers. Anything from a Google search to a radio ad or a Read More

Margo Schneider and Sarah Sommer Join Editorial Advisory Board of eHST

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The eHST Editorial Advisory Board is made up of leaders in the healthcare marketing field committed to shaping the future of the industry. They offer ongoing feedback on our editorial coverage, write occasional articles, and point us to developments and people eHST members like you should know about. I’m very pleased to announce that Margo Schneider and Sarah Sommer Read More

HIPAA-Pocalypse Now: Understanding the New HHS Guidance, the Implications for Healthcare Digital Marketers, and How to Respond

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A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends webinar for healthcare marketers and strategists

Panelist:

  • Ben Dillon, Co-Owner and Chief Executive Officer, Geonetric

Watch this webinar and you’ll learn:

  • What the HHS guidance is, and how it relates to PHI and HIPAA
  • Why every healthcare organization should be thinking about how they use marketing trackers and other ad technologies.
  • Implications for healthcare that go beyond tracking pixels.
  • How to engage in a risk assessment process.
  • How to develop a process for achieving and maintaining compliance in the future.

And much more!

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