Marketing Magic? Virtua Health Integrates CRM Data and Predictive AI to Deliver Targeted Messaging

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 dream — to save lives while also proving your department’s worth. That’s precisely what Virtua Health’s marketing Read More

Strategic Storytelling: Unleashing the Power of Clever Content to Elevate Hospital Marketing Communications

One smaller academic hospital shares how it delivers content its target demographic craves. // By Wendy Margolin // What if you had to reach only one audience with your hospital content? Your communications would be more targeted and powerful. You’d know your audience better and deliver content they’re more likely to read. That’s exactly what Read More

Lehigh Valley Health Network Leverages Digital Tools to Enhance Organizational Culture

In today’s healthcare environment, enhancing organizational culture has never been more important or challenging. It requires dedicated focus and the need for marketers to adapt to more diverse employee, leader, and physician communication needs. How do you build and maintain a strong organizational culture in a rapidly growing health system? That’s the challenge Lehigh Valley Read More

Social Listening and Essential Response

How to use social media to your brand’s advantage. // By Meagan Saxton // Using social media as a tool for customer service is a cornerstone of digital marketing in the 21st century. But it isn’t as simple as firing off a series of posts on X in response to angry customers. In fact, responding Read More

How TikTok Can Be an Ideal Channel for Hospital Marketing

In December 2021, Callista Dammann and Jody Ganschinietz sat in their boss’s office watching a short homemade video on repeat. They were about to attempt what teens and young adults do daily by riding on the coattails of the latest viral TikTok video content. But the stakes were high for these two, serving as senior Read More

Developing a Thriving Organizational Culture in a Growing and Increasingly Diverse Health System

In today’s healthcare environment, enhancing organizational culture has never been more important or challenging. It requires dedicated focus and the need for marketers to adapt to more diverse employee, leader, and physician communication needs. // By Brian Griffin // How do you build and maintain a strong organizational culture in a rapidly growing health system? Read More

6 Ways to Use Generative AI Responsibly

It’s no exaggeration to say 2023 has been the Year of AI — and the use of AI technologies in healthcare marketing is no exception. You can probably rattle off a host of marketing benefits. There are seemingly unlimited new AI tools every day to accelerate strategic priorities and get more work done in less Read More

Not Just for Teens: Hospital Marketers and TikTok

Nationwide Children’s proves TikTok can be an ideal channel for hospital marketing. // By Wendy Margolin // In December 2021, Callista Dammann and Jody Ganschinietz sat in their boss’s office watching a short homemade video on repeat. They were about to attempt what teens and young adults do daily by riding on the coattails of Read More

Practical Applications of AI in Healthcare Marketing: Elevating Patient & Employee Engagement and ROI

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

Your Presenters:

• Jenny Collopy, VP, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, The Christ Hospital Health Network
• John Elder, Co-Founder and CEO, Supernatural
• Mike Barrett, Co-Founder and CSO, Supernatural
• Bianca Chaer, Strategist, Supernatural

You’ll learn:

• An overview of the general AI landscape: different types of AI, how they are used, and presenters’ point of view on the use of these tools.
• How to do more than just “Use ChatGPT”
• The current landscape of AI in healthcare marketing, specifically how more relevant content can help improve marketing outcomes.
• Where AI is making an impact for people in their day-to-day workflow, right now.
• How AI can help understand and address the needs of different populations effectively.
• How AI can customize content to live across multiple platforms for a variety of different audiences.
• How AI can help optimize healthcare marketing campaigns — specifically:
  • How AI can help you understand the competitive environment
  • How you can use AI to make content
  • How you can use AI to evaluate that content
  • How you can use AI for channel strategy and media planning

And much much more!

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Navigating the Privacy Landscape in 2023 and Beyond

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 several leading technology media outlets published the results of a joint study by The Markup and STAT News. The study Read More

6 Things to Know About Responsible Generative AI In Healthcare Marketing

It’s no exaggeration to say 2023 has been the Year of AI — and the use of AI technologies in healthcare marketing is no exception. // By Elaine Christie // You can probably rattle off a host of marketing benefits. There are seemingly unlimited new AI tools every day to accelerate strategic priorities and get Read More

Focus on Privacy/Tracking: Strategies to Navigate the Risks and Maintain Compliance

In this exclusive report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, you’ll get a comprehensive look at the current privacy/tracking landscape in healthcare marketing. Through expert insights and in-depth
interviews, we’ll provide you with practical tips and strategies to help you navigate the complexities of privacy and tracking in your healthcare marketing efforts.

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Privacy Enhancing Technologies: A Potential Solution to Privacy Concerns?

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

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

Exploring Privacy Enhancing Technologies as a Potential Solution to Privacy in AdTech

Advertisers are highly motivated to find ways to take full advantage of digital marketing — without triggering a privacy breach. The AdTech ecosystem is just as motivated to find solutions, with billions of dollars in ad revenue at stake. // By Jane Weber Brubaker // Healthcare marketers have been scrambling to find ways to reclaim Read More

Should Influencer Marketing Be Part of Your Marketing Mix?

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

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

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

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

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

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

// 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

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

// 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

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