How to Build Your Healthcare Consumer Experience Roadmap — for 2025 and Beyond

Your Presenters:

• Jennifer Carron Passon, CPXP, MSOM, Patient Experience Officer, BJC HealthCare
• Brian Carlson, VP of Patient Experience, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Justin Dearborn, Founder and CEO, Praia Health

Moderated by:

• Jared Johnson, Chief Marketing Officer at Praia Health and eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Editorial Advisory Board Member

You’ll learn:

• How to create or update your organization’s consumer experience strategy based on insights from forward-thinking institutions.
• Effective change management strategies to accelerate and gain buy-in for consumer experience initiatives
• How marketing leaders effectively collaborate with others who have consumer experience responsibilities without derailing other priorities and investments.
• How to evaluate new digital platforms and the possibilities that they open for connecting consumer experiences beyond the clinical encounter.

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Healthcare DXP: Empower Compelling Patient Experiences

Download this new free ebook today, and you’ll discover how the right digital experience platform (DXP) can help your healthcare organization take your digital consumer experience to the next level: 

• Make Your Services Stand Out and Easy to Reach: Be highly findable with action-oriented entry points through granular content modeling.
• Ensure Consistent and Engaging Content Across All Platforms: Benefit from omnichannel support to streamline your content creation and provide a consistent user experience across multiple channels.
• Leverage a Comprehensive View of Your Consumers: Develop a complete view of ongoing consumer engagement and interaction … and use it to provide an unparalleled digital consumer experience.

And much more!

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Looking Forward, Healthcare Needs To Focus More on Service

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Highlights from Futurescan 2022-2027

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