Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

The 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards Are Now Open

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// By Susan Dubuque // The 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards Call for Entries is officially open! Now in their 26th year, the eHealthcare Leadership Awards celebrate excellence in healthcare digital marketing, recognizing standout websites, apps, videos, campaigns, and digital initiatives that drive marketing and business success across the industry. The deadline for entries is June 27, 2025.

Beyond CRM 101: Aligning People, Data, and Strategy for Smarter Engagement

Wednesday | June 4, 2025 | 2 p.m. Eastern

Your Presenters:

  • Laura Lee Jones, Founder & CEO of LionShare
  • Judith Ward, Strategic Health Care Marketing Executive
  • Denise Davis, Vice President, Marketing Technology & Operations, Emory Healthcare
  • Chris Pace, Marketing Executive

Moderated by:

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

Join us as our panelists explore how you can:

  • Identify the right CRM use cases, from patient acquisition and retention to reactivation, referral growth, and engagement journey orchestration.
  • Break down silos across marketing, IT, and data teams to enable smarter engagement and measurement.
  • Ensure CRM strategy reflects marketing goals by partnering effectively with IT, bridging gaps between technical infrastructure and engagement needs.
  • Measure what matters by connecting CRM data across channels and understanding true marketing ROI.
  • Build a source of truth for data-driven decisions, including more accurate targeting and audience suppression.
  • Strengthen data governance to support segmentation, suppression, and system-wide confidence in CRM insights.

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Raising the Bar: How Award-Winning Health Systems Enhance Digital Patient Experience

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// By Susan Dubuque // Patient experience is no longer judged based on bedside manner or in-office interactions alone. Increasingly, it’s defined by the digital journey. This insight came during a recent member roundtable featuring eHealthcare Leadership Awards winners. Here, industry experts from Hackensack Meridian Health and UNC Health share secrets on meeting today’s consumer expectations.

How The Christ Hospital Health Network Turned Webinars Into a Winning CRM Strategy

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In June 2022, The Christ Hospital Health Network launched a new brand promise to deliver “Everything it Takes” to benefit the patient. Nine months later, the digital marketing team executed against that platform with a strategically designed CRM campaign. Learn how this award-winning campaign has become a content marketing showstopper.

A CRM Story: Penn Highlands Healthcare

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Download this new white paper and learn:

  • How Can a Mid-Size Hospital System Achieve Measurable Growth and Deeper Patient Engagement? Explore the strategies and real-world outcomes that drove impactful results.
  • What Are the Key Steps to Prove ROI and Secure Support for Marketing Investments? Learn how to build a compelling case for CRM-driven campaigns.
  • Which Scalable, Data-Driven Tactics Can Position Your Marketing for Long-Term Success? Discover future-ready methods to stay competitive in the dynamic healthcare landscape.
  • How Can You Test and Optimize CRM Campaigns to Adapt to Evolving Market Needs? Gain insights into creating flexible campaigns that deliver results in shifting environments.

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Beyond Tactics: How to Build a Digital Front Door Strategy for Your Enterprise

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Join us for a lively conversation with our panel of experts who will share their experiences working in or with major health systems and how they build effective enterprise-wide digital front door strategies informed by comprehensive consumer and market intelligence.

Your Presenters:

  • Margo Schneider, Assistant Vice President, Digital Strategy & Operations, UW Medicine
  • Zain Ismail, Senior Director, Digital Health & Transformation, Strategic Advisory Services, AVIA
  • Otto Angulo, Senior Director, Digital Consumer Engagement, AtlantiCare
  • Mike Julian, Principal Consultant, Population Intelligence & Activation Populi, a Definitive Healthcare Company

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CRM: How to Optimize Your Tech Stack to Attract and Retain Patients

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Your Presenters:

  • Mike Sonnentag, Senior Service Line Marketing Strategist, Virtua Health
  • Seth Kaplan, Director, Marketing and Customer Engagement, HonorHealth
  • Ross Therrien, Enterprise Account Executive (Healthcare), LeadSquared

Moderated by:

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

You’ll learn:

  • Why an EHR system alone may not be enough
  • How Virtua Health uses the CRM to uncover opportunities for service line growth
  • How HonorHealth’s CRM team reaches out to internal clients as strategic partners
  • How integrated systems enable data sharing and improve care coordination
  • How you can use CRM solutions to manage patient and prospect relationships across multiple touchpoints.

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How to Target Your Patient Audience in the Age of Zero-Clicks

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// By Wendy Margolin // First Google drove organic results lower down on the SERP, favoring paid ads instead. Now Google’s AI Overviews has taken the top spot. Content marketers are raising their game to compete for traffic. Discover how predictive analytics, health journey content series, and immersive content are driving results for three major health systems.

CRM: How to Optimize Your Tech Stack to Attract and Retain Patients

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Join us for a free webinar on Wednesday October 9 at 2 p.m. ET to learn how your organization can drive growth, deliver comprehensive, patient-centered care, and stay competitive in today’s rapidly changing healthcare environment.

You’ll learn:

  • Why an EHR system alone may not be enough
  • How Virtua Health uses the CRM to uncover opportunities for service line growth
  • How HonorHealth’s CRM team reaches out to internal clients as strategic partners
  • How integrated systems enable data sharing and improve care coordination
  • How you can use CRM solutions to manage patient and prospect relationships across multiple touchpoints.

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A Tale of Two CRMs: How Sharp HealthCare Achieved Success with a Dual Approach to Patient Engagement

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CRM lacks a universal definition in healthcare, encompassing everything from patient acquisition to care gap resolution. The fragmented vendor landscape offers solutions ranging from niche tools to comprehensive platforms, challenging organizations to pinpoint their specific needs. Explore how Sharp HealthCare navigated this complexity, crafting a unique two-pronged strategy for optimal results.

How Can Your Digital Marketing Team Stay Ahead of Industry Transformations?

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Marketing technology is evolving at warp speed, creating new tools and solutions that require greater resources, expertise, and talent. But how do leaders ensure their digital marketing teams evolve, grow, and adapt to keep up with these new technologies and transformations? Discover expert insights on managing digital teams to ensure long-term success.

How Many CRMs Do You Need?

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// By Jane Weber Brubaker // CRM lacks a universal definition in healthcare, encompassing everything from patient acquisition to care gap resolution. The fragmented vendor landscape offers solutions ranging from niche tools to comprehensive platforms, challenging organizations to pinpoint their specific needs. Explore how Sharp HealthCare navigated this complexity, crafting a unique two-pronged strategy for optimal results.

Building and Leading Digital Marketing Teams for Long-Term Success

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// By Daniel Fell // Marketing technology is evolving at warp speed, creating new tools and solutions that require greater resources, expertise, and talent. But how do leaders ensure their digital marketing teams evolve, grow, and adapt to keep up with these new technologies and transformations? Discover expert insights on managing digital teams to ensure long-term success.

Healthcare Marketing Shifts Focus to Consumer Experience and ROI, Survey Shows

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The Digital Healthcare Marketing Trends Survey, now in its 12th Edition, is an industry litmus test that reveals the challenges and opportunities for growth and transformation in provider organizations of all sizes. Discover major themes from the research — positive trends as well as ongoing challenges — and what’s on the road ahead.

Road to Recovery: Latest Survey Shows Slow Return to Pre-Pandemic Marketing Efforts 

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// By Ben Dillon // The Digital Healthcare Marketing Trends Survey, now in its 12th Edition, is an industry litmus test that reveals the challenges and opportunities for growth and transformation in provider organizations of all sizes. Discover major themes from the research — positive trends as well as ongoing challenges — and what’s on the road ahead.

Reimagining CRM for Health Systems with an Enterprise-Wide Approach

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Watch our webinar and hear from a top industry expert who will share how CRM has evolved and discuss best practices that can help your organization take full advantage of state-of-the-art CRM capabilities.

You’ll learn:

  • What the current state of CRM is in healthcare, and why it often falls short.
  • How to structure CRM for enterprise-wide success.
  • Best practices for implementation, governance, and strategy.
  • How to set priorities that align with the strategic plan when launching campaigns.
  • How a CRM can scale communications using real-time data and rules-based automated campaigns.
  • What to consider when choosing a CRM solution.
    And much much more!

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A Best in Breed Data Platform + Healthcare CRM: A “Match Made in Heaven”

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// By Jane Weber Brubaker // If the promise of CRM in healthcare has been largely unfulfilled, data silos are partially to blame. Innovaccer’s acquisition of digital marketing and CRM platform Cured earlier this year could solve data challenges and accelerate growth for health systems. One benefit of mixing and mingling at industry events is Read More

Where Does CRM Stand in Addressing Today’s Healthcare Challenges?

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The high cost and amount of churn in the healthcare CRM market have had many marketing leaders wondering if the huge investment they made was worth it. And those who still shop for the right solution wonder where to turn. But the need for flexible solutions that meet organizational needs has never been greater, as Read More

Geisinger and Henry Ford Health Leverage Epic Cheers to Fuel Marketing Efforts

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Epic is the dominant player in electronic health records, with U.S. hospital market share of 35.9 percent, according to May 2023 research from KLAS, reported by Becker’s. This figure represents 47.6 percent of beds — nearly double that of Epic’s closest competitor, Oracle Cerner (25.8 percent), which gained hospitals but lost beds year over year. Read More

Epic Cheers Update

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Two major U.S. health systems share why they like Epic’s CRM. // By Jane Weber Brubaker // Epic is the dominant player in electronic health records, with U.S. hospital market share of 35.9 percent, according to May 2023 research from KLAS, reported by Becker’s. This figure represents 47.6 percent of beds — nearly double that Read More

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