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

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.

Focus on CRM: Success Stories from Leading Healthcare Organizations

In this new report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, you’ll get an inside look at the current CRM landscape in healthcare and discover how hospitals and health systems around the country use it to streamline data and drive growth.

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How Many CRMs Do You Need?

// 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.

Strategies to Implement Effective Provider Data Management to Improve Patient Experience

Provider data management plays a critical role in enhancing the patient experience, but it takes the right strategy and technologies to execute successfully. Health systems can struggle to see all the benefits of managing provider data when they are juggling revenue growth, controlling costs, recruiting and retaining talent, evolving digital tools, and other priorities. Four Read More

Provider Data Management: An Essential Key to Better Patient Experience

// By Jared Johnson // Provider data management is critical in enhancing the patient experience, but it takes the right strategy and technologies to execute successfully. Discover best practices for implementing effective provider data management strategies and learn how these insights empower patients with accurate information and improved access to care.

Privacy-First Healthcare Marketing: What it Means and Who Should Be Involved

What does it really mean to embrace a privacy-first communications approach? That’s just one of the many questions we wanted to answer during a recent webinar, Privacy-First: How to Ensure Your Healthcare Marketing Aligns with HIPAA. This webinar was presented on February 1, 2024 by eHealthcare Strategy & Trends. The panel discussion explored safer ways Read More

Privacy-First Marketing: HIPAA Guidance for Your Healthcare Communications

// By Elaine Christie // What does it really mean to embrace a privacy-first communications approach? That’s just one of the many questions we wanted to answer during a recent webinar. This article offers tips for creating a safer-by-default tech stack that still offers clear visibility into the customer journey without compromising patient trust.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Drives Success for Today’s Healthcare Digital Teams?

As digital teams take on more and more strategic responsibilities, leaders step forward to complement staff they have in place by recruiting additional talent and collaborating closely with strategy, information systems, and clinical operations to help achieve success and establish more rigorous leadership development. Three panelists presented on the digital teams of the future at Read More

The Digital Team of the Future

// By Dalal Haldeman, Ph.D. // Leaders from Hackensack Meridian Health, UW Medicine, and RUSH compare notes on what it takes to push digital transformation forward in their organizations. As digital teams take on more and more strategic responsibilities, leaders step forward to complement staff they have in place by recruiting additional talent and collaborating Read More

Data Management Is Key to Successful Digital Patient Initiatives

// By Ron Shinkman // Competent data management can be even more crucial than any specific consumer-oriented patient initiative. When tasked with creating digital services to help patients find the right office or medical department at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Lisa Williams smacked right into a brick-and-mortar reality: Many buildings dotting Read More

CRM Success in Healthcare: Integration and Automation

The rapid, COVID-driven pace of innovation that some saw as the pandemic’s silver lining is slowing down. As we pick up where we left off, we see that some of the challenges that were dogging provider organizations before the onset of the pandemic are still there. CRM is one example. Many healthcare organizations that have Read More

What It Takes to Achieve CRM Success

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida knew it needed to consolidate its data and technology platforms to make them usable for marketing and to better serve consumers, patients, and internal stakeholders. The rapid, COVID-driven pace of innovation that some saw as the pandemic’s silver lining is slowing down. As we Read More

Why Health Systems Might Be Relying Too Much on CRM Data

Healthcare organizations use customer relationship management (CRM) platforms to manage patient information, appointments, and communications. If your organization uses a CRM system to engage patients, you may think the data in your system is clean, accurate, and reliable. But a recent study suggests that health systems may be putting too much trust into the accuracy Read More

Do Hospitals and Health Systems Put Too Much Trust in Their CRM Data?

// By Jim Samuel // Healthcare organizations use customer relationship management (CRM) platforms to manage patient information, appointments, and communications. Are they putting too much trust in the accuracy of the data in their systems? One study of CRM data quality says the answer may be yes. If your health system uses a customer relationship Read More

The Impact of Online Privacy and Security on Health System Brands — and How You Can Lead

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Which would you prefer to be known as — a health system that makes things easy for consumers and can be trusted to safeguard their data? Or one that adds friction in the name of security, and puts personally identifiable information at risk?  There are so many ways data, Read More

Healthcare Content Strategy: Substance and Structure

Every successful healthcare content strategy needs two main ingredients: substance and structure. But how do you merge these two together to create a seamless web experience for your customers? In 2017, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center announced its intent to merge with Beth Israel Deaconess, creating what would be the largest hospital merger in Massachusetts Read More

Peanut Butter + Chocolate: A Recipe for a Successful Content Strategy

// By Althea Fung // Content substance and content structure go together like peanut butter and chocolate — and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In 2017, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center announced its intent to merge with Beth Israel Deaconess, creating what would be the largest hospital merger in Massachusetts Read More

The End of the Third-Party Data Era Is Coming Soon

If you use third-party data for your marketing, it’s time for you to start getting ready to do something different. That’s because new privacy laws around the world, as well as new measures from Apple and Google, will soon make using third-party data a thing of the past. Coming changes will give consumers more control Read More

Third-Party Cookie Deprecation: What You Should Do to Get Ready

// By Jim Samuel // Third-party cookies may have received a reprieve, but that only gives you more time to prepare for their eventual demise. Whether it’s because of Apple’s security updates to its email app, Google’s end to support for cookies, or the new privacy laws in many states and countries, organizations that rely Read More