2019 Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey

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We are pleased to share the results of the 2019 Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey.

Download this report to get data to benchmark your organization — and also to discover insights that will help you plan for the future of your digital operations.

This is Geonetric’s ninth survey over 14 years, and the third in partnership with eHealthcare Strategy & Trends. We’re thrilled to have our largest number of participants ever, with 307 responses (267 providers and 40 vendors).

Our goal is to provide actionable insights and strategies you can use to advance your digital efforts. To achieve this, our survey takes a unique approach, highlighting how leaders execute digital marketing differently, comparing viewpoints of providers with those of their agencies, and looking at the intersections of questions for deeper insights.

Changes for 2019

Each year we iterate to ensure the data is useful and to explore new, emerging topics. This year we polled a group of multi-year survey takers and enlisted an advisory board to provide insider viewpoints on how to report data in meaningful ways.

Big Insights Await

This year’s survey produced many interesting — and some unexpected — findings, that you’ll learn when you download the survey results ebook. Among them, you’ll discover:

• How actual staff investment by healthcare organizations differs from what was previously reported/believed
• The most critical differentiators for leading organizations, and what rose to the top of marketers’ rankings for the first time
• How organizations have succeeded and in what ways they still struggle to leverage customer relationship management (CRM) systems
• And much, much more.

Realize Your Vision

We hear over and over again how this research helps justify budget requests, secure resources, and make digital the centerpiece of healthcare marketing. We hope it does the same for you.

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How To Create the Experiences Your Customers Expect and Want

In our new Ask the Expert column by Jared Johnson, Matt Gove, chief consumer officer at Piedmont Healthcare and eHealthcare Strategy and Trends editorial advisory board member, shares his perspectives on how healthcare marketing teams can create the experiences consumers expect. Here’s an excerpt: eHST: In general, where should healthcare marketers be focused today, and Read More

Newly Formed Prisma Health Aims for Better Patient Access with Revamped Provider Directory Tools

// By Melanie Graham // These days, a health system’s digital front door is more important than ever. Your website and online provider directory can be the difference between an appointment at your clinic, and one at your competitor’s. So, when it came time for South Carolina’s Palmetto Health and Greenville Health System to merge Read More

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Succeeding with Customer Experience Management

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What Goes Into a Well-Designed Healthcare Site?

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Personalization Leads To Richer Donor Experiences

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Building the Children’s Hospital of the Future

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Technology Plays Key Role in Patient-Centered Room of the Future

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SEO and Digitization Trends for Hospitals and Health Systems

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At Memorial Sloan Kettering Giving, Personalized Experiences Put Donors First

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eHealthcare Leadership Awards: It’s Not Just for the Big Guys

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The State of Healthcare Digital Marketing

Survey Results Are In! Everything You Need to Know to Make the Best Decisions This Year!

An eHealthcare Strategy & Trends webinar on demand for healthcare marketers and digital strategists

Your Presenter:
Ben Dillon, Chief Strategy Officer, Geonetric

The 9th edition of Geonetric’s Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey is an indispensable resource. It will give you an inside view based on data from over 300 organizations — more than 260 hospitals and health systems and more than 40 agency partners who responded to the 2019 edition of the survey, the largest ever.

This year, Geonetric incorporated feedback from multi-year survey takers who confirmed that this data is a “must have” planning tool for all healthcare digital marketers.

This webinar will be a SNEAK PEEK at the survey report — be sure to attend and you’ll be among the first to see this year’s results!

You’ll Learn:

• Whether your organization is a leader, average, or lagging compared to the industry overall
• How much leaders are spending on digital marketing, and the percentage digital marketing is of the overall marketing budget
• The top goals healthcare marketing teams are working towards
• How your peers and competitors are using digital technology, from CRM to personalization
• How leading healthcare organizations structure their teams, determine budgets, manage business listings, allocate resources, and much more.

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Paradigm Shift: Can Rethinking How Technology Is Used Change How Healthcare Is Delivered?

// By Althea Fung // Technology is drastically changing how we live. This is particularly evident in healthcare, where technology like wearable devices such as Apple Watch give users updates on their health in real time. That same technology is opening up new avenues for healthcare organizations to connect with chronically ill patients. The Society Read More

The Key to Providing a Good Chatbot Experience

Chatbots — a computer program or artificial intelligence (AI) that has text or voice conversations — are redefining customer service, especially in healthcare. A 2017 Juniper Research study found that healthcare providers that use chatbots can expect average time savings of just over four minutes per inquiry, with average cost savings in the range of Read More

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Survey Highlights Healthcare Digital Marketing’s Growth, Challenges

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How Do Healthcare Organizations Go Beyond Minimum Requirements to Make Digital Experiences Welcoming to People of All Abilities?

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How to Make Your Chatbot More Human-Like

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Best Practices for Managing SEO Internally

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