Ben Dillon, MBA

Virtual Roundtable: Building Your Digital Front Door

The COVID-19 pandemic and the rapidly changing competitive environment are making the consumer and patient digital experience a higher priority for healthcare marketers than ever before. This webinar will provide important insights and tips you need to be ready to play a key role in improving your digital front door.

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

Panelists:

• Kendra Calhoun, Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing & Communications, Avera Health
• Ed Rafalski, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, BayCare Health System
• Ben Dillon, Chief Strategy Officer, Geonetric

Watch this webinar and you’ll learn:

• Benchmark where your organization is today
• Set a vision for future improvement based on digital experience roadmaps
• Get leadership and organizational buy-in for digital experience initiatives
• Overcome roadblocks and breakdown operational silos
• Determine pilot initiatives and build on early wins
• Establish and measure key indicators for success
• Put key takeaways to work at your organization

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Get Your Digital Strategy Optimized

“As we put the finishing touches on our annual Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey, I always look for themes that will define the industry in the coming year,” says Ben Dillon of Geonetric. “This year, one theme is surfacing again and again: digital strategy and the level of investment and focus placed on it by Read More

The Number-One Takeaway from the Latest Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey: Digital Strategy Is the Path Forward

// By Ben Dillon // As we put the finishing touches on our annual Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey, I always look for themes that will define the industry in the coming year. This year, one theme is surfacing again and again: digital strategy and the level of investment and focus placed on it by Read More

The State of Healthcare Digital Marketing in 2021

The survey results are in! See how the pandemic has shifted digital priorities and investments.

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

Your Presenter:
Ben Dillon, Chief Strategy Officer, Geonetric

Watch this webinar and you’ll learn:

• How the pandemic shifted priorities and investments
• Where organizations are investing when it comes to virtual care capabilities
• What leading organizations are doing differently than others in terms of goal setting, digital marketing tactics, and spending
• What are the hottest areas for staffing
• Where healthcare marketers feel most behind — and how that compares to the agency perspective

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What Are the Top Digital Priorities as We Move Out of the Pandemic?

We’re fortunate at eHealthcare Strategy & Trends to have a talented and dedicated group of advisors with diverse backgrounds and experience — senior executives from leading healthcare organizations, digital agencies, and consulting groups. So when we wanted to get a broad perspective on where things are likely to go as we move out of the Read More

As we come out of the pandemic, what are the top digital priorities for healthcare organizations as they get back to business?

Ask the Expert, with the eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Editorial Advisory Board // By Jane Weber Brubaker // We’re fortunate at eHealthcare Strategy & Trends to have a talented and dedicated group of advisors with diverse backgrounds and experience — senior executives from leading healthcare organizations, digital agencies, and consulting groups. So when we wanted Read More

How Has COVID-19 Affected Digital Healthcare Marketing?

“The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every industry in the U.S., but not all in the same way or to the same degree,” says Ben Dillon of Geonetric. “Healthcare’s experience has been unique, with the combination of shutdowns early in the crisis coupled with costly emergency response plans for many health systems. Teams pivoted to focus Read More

Digital Marketing Trends in 2020 — The Impact of COVID-19

// By Ben Dillon // The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every industry in the U.S., but not all in the same way or to the same degree. Healthcare’s experience has been unique, with the combination of shutdowns early in the crisis coupled with costly emergency response plans for many health systems. Teams pivoted to focus Read More

How to Build the Case for Increasing Your Digital Marketing Budget in 2021

eHealthcare Strategy & Trends presents a brand-new member webinar for healthcare marketers and digital strategists

Watch this lively panel discussion with top marketers from leading organizations who will share their insights on how to get the budget you and your organization need to succeed in 2021.

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The State of Digital Marketing in Healthcare in 2020

A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends webinar on demand for healthcare marketers and digital strategists. 

Your Presenters

• Ben Dillon, Chief Strategy Officer of Geonetric

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News from the Front: Healthcare Shifts into High Gear to Address the Coronavirus

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Well before cases of COVID-19 began to spike in the U.S., healthcare organizations were watching the response to the pandemic unfold worldwide and preparing for the worst-case scenario. Communications to myriad stakeholders have been and are being created, coordinated, and standardized across multiple channels. Accurate, up-to-date information is essential Read More

Patient Well-Being at the Center of Cone Health’s Website Relaunch

// By Melanie Graham // North Carolina’s Cone Health has roots in the denim industry. The system’s benefactors, Moses and Bertha Cone, started Cone Denim, and the surrounding community has maintained strong ties to its textile heritage. And while denim may be the literal fabric that started this Greensboro-area health system, Cone Health also knows Read More

2019: Change and Competition for Healthcare Marketers

“Toward the beginning of a new year, everyone gets excited about trends,” says Ben Dillon of Geonetric. “But trends don’t start or end in a single year. Sometimes they are more of a movement, something that has been building momentum over the past several years.” In our new article, Dillon takes a look back on Read More

Trends, Predictions, and the User Experience Movement

Learn the biggest takeaways from 2019, what to expect for 2020, and why user experience is at the heart of it all. // By Ben Dillon // Toward the beginning of a new year, everyone gets excited about trends. But trends don’t start or end in a single year. Sometimes they are more of a Read More

ROI Matters, Even If No One Is Asking

Insights from popular survey reveal the real state of ROI reporting in healthcare digital marketing and what savvy leaders can do about it. // By Ben Dillon // A senior marketing leader at a large health system once told me that her ultimate career goal was to get finance to treat her department as a Read More

Benchmarking Reveals Whether You’re a Leader or a Laggard

“Benchmarking your organization against your peers is something every health system wants to do,” says Ben Dillon, chief strategy officer at Geonetric and eHST Editorial Advisory Board member. “But in reality, how you compete is more nuanced than just comparing your organization to others by team or bed size. It’s neither easy to compare yourself to an average of Read More

Ask the Expert: What Differentiates a Healthcare Digital Marketing Leader?

Learn How Leading Healthcare Marketers Do Digital Differently and How to Propel Your Organization Forward // By Ben Dillon // Benchmarking your organization against your peers is something every health system wants to do. But in reality, how you compete is more nuanced than just comparing your organization to others by team or bed size. Read More

Jared Johnson, manager of marketing technology and analytics at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, joins eHST Editorial Advisory Board

The eHST Editorial Advisory Board is made up of leaders in the digital healthcare marketing field who are 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 Read More

Matt Gove, chief consumer officer at Piedmont Healthcare, joins eHST Editorial Advisory Board

The eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Editorial Advisory Board is made up of leaders in the digital healthcare marketing field who are 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 Read More

Ask the Expert: What Does It Take to Win at Digital Marketing in Healthcare?

[Hint: It isn’t size and budget that make a leader a leader.] // By Ben Dillon // For the past decade, Geonetric has performed its Digital Marketing in Healthcare survey to help healthcare marketers uncover industry trends, benchmark their own efforts, and better understand how to plan for upcoming digital initiatives. As part of the Read More

Loyalty and Rewards Programs in Healthcare Marketing: A Trend To Watch

A March 2016 editorial in JAMA authored by three University of Michigan physicians, “Health System Loyalty Programs: An Innovation in Customer Care and Service,” begins as follows: “Many people belong to loyalty programs for coffee shops, hotel chains, or airlines. Despite a highly consumer-oriented approach in some health systems, similar types of loyalty programs have Read More

What Are the Top 10 Things Healthcare Marketers Need to Know About Next-Generation SEO?

Ask the Expert, with Ben Dillon // By Jane Weber Brubaker // Remember when Google was where you went to figure out where to go next? Now Google is more interested in having you find what you need right on the search engine results page. Google’s answers may be taking up much more of the Read More

Emerging Trends in Loyalty and Rewards Programs in Healthcare

eHealthcare Pulse // By Jane Weber Brubaker // A March 2016 editorial in JAMA authored by three University of Michigan physicians, “Health System Loyalty Programs: An Innovation in Customer Care and Service,” begins as follows: “Many people belong to loyalty programs for coffee shops, hotel chains, or airlines. Despite a highly consumer-oriented approach in some Read More

Digital Agency Helps Create 2 Mobile-Friendly Hospital Websites; A CMS Platform Designed for Healthcare

Like many hospital websites, the Genesis Health site saw a significant increase in traffic from mobile devices last year and the digital team knew it was time to move to a responsive design. The new mobile-friendly website went live earlier this year. “You can view it on a smart phone, tablet and PC and it Read More

Ben Dillon, Chief Strategy Officer, Geonetric, Joins eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Editorial Advisory Board

The eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Editorial Advisory Board is made up of leaders in the digital healthcare marketing field who are committed to shaping the future of the industry. They offer ongoing feedback on our editorial coverage, write occasional articles, and help point us to the developments and the people our readers should know about. Read More