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

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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Focus on Digital Content: How 16 Leading Healthcare Organizations Engage Audiences Using the Latest Tools, Technologies, and Tactics

In this new report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, you’ll discover how leading hospitals and health systems have earned recognition and achieved business results through digital content that engages patients, improves health outcomes, and establishes their healthcare providers as trusted experts and thought leaders.

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How Leading Healthcare Organizations Improve Access and Engagement Through Digital Solutions

The term “digital front door” (DFD) first emerged in the mid-2010s and has become a central concept in the healthcare landscape. During the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards, the judges presented 15 awards in the Best Digital Front Door category. Discover how award-winning organizations enhance patient access, engagement, and experience.

Welcoming Patients Through the Digital Front Door

// By Susan Dubuque // The term “digital front door” (DFD) first emerged in the mid-2010s and has become a central concept in the healthcare landscape. During the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards, the judges presented 15 awards in the Best Digital Front Door category. Discover how award-winning organizations enhance patient access, engagement, and experience.

Focus on Healthcare Websites: Designing Digital Experiences to Meet the Needs of Today’s Consumers and Drive Organizational Strategies

In this new report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, you’ll get an inside look at healthcare website transformations from leading hospitals and health systems around the country.

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

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.

Building and Leading Digital Marketing Teams for Long-Term Success

// 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.

“The Proof Is in the Numbers”: How Hackensack Meridian Health Turned a $90 Million Digital Investment into $1.9 Billion in Revenue

Hackensack Meridian Health continues to lead the way with a framework for digital engagement that enhances the consumer experience and access to care. The health system was awarded the Organizational Commitment Award at the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards. Discover how HMH applies digital technology to deliver patient-centered care.

Elevate Your Impact: See Why Hackensack Meridian Health Received Top Honors at the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

// By Susan Dubuque // Hackensack Meridian Health continues to lead the way with a framework for digital engagement that enhances the consumer experience and access to care. The health system was awarded the Organizational Commitment Award at the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards. Discover how HMH applies digital technology to deliver patient-centered care.

The Remix — The Evolution of the Digital Front Door

This new free guide will help you answer:

• What is the history of the Digital Front Door and what factors have influenced its status today?
• With so much industry and technology disruption, where will the Digital Front Door go next?
• What are the main areas of investment to consider in evolving your Digital Front Door? And how do you measure up?
• What expertise do you need to cultivate a smart and effective Digital Front Door?
• And much more!

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Advocate Aurora Health Transforms Healthcare Delivery by Leveraging Consumer-Centric Digital Technology

Advocate Aurora Health’s commitment to the consumer experience at every step in the digital journey has positioned this organization among the best consumer-first healthcare systems in the country. Advocate Aurora Health (now called Advocate Health Care in Illinois and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin) was one of four health-related organizations to receive the Mark Gothberg Read More

What Does It Take to Be a Winner? Learn Why Advocate Aurora Health Took Home Top Honors at the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

// By Susan Dubuque // Advocate Aurora Health’s commitment to the consumer experience at every step in the digital journey has positioned this organization among the best consumer-first healthcare systems in the country. Advocate Aurora Health (now called Advocate Health Care in Illinois and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin) was one of four health-related organizations Read More

HCIC 2022: Ready for a Comeback in Miami

// By Melanie Graham // After a virtual conference in 2020 and a scaled-back event in 2021, HCIC is ready for a return to normal this year in Miami. With new session formats, an exciting slate of topics, and a beautiful setting, this is a conference that healthcare professionals won’t want to miss. After two Read More

Collaboration: The New Gold Standard for Successful Healthcare Organizations

The pandemic had a silver lining. It took a wrecking ball to the walls that have separated internal departments within health systems. Organizations battling COVID-19 had to break down the silos, join forces, and learn to collaborate in new ways. These newly acquired skills are valuable in a post-pandemic world as well.

Health systems that forge internal alliances unleash their collective strengths and leverage competitive strengths to lead their organizations and the industry in innovation and transformation.

This report is a collection of our best articles on the value of collaboration, with interviews from healthcare leaders who have successfully built coalitions, worked across departmental lines, and brought teams together to accomplish what their organizations needed most.

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Using Digital Tools To Enhance the Patient Journey

The coronavirus, growing consumerism, and increased competition are contributing to decreased patient loyalty and a heightened need for healthcare organizations to improve the patient experience through digital transformation. “The latest market research shows there’s been a sharp drop in loyalty over the past few years, especially during the pandemic,” says Ben Dillon, chief strategy officer Read More

Northwell Health’s Technology Initiatives Proved Invaluable During COVID

When the pandemic hit New York City, Northwell Health became a proving ground for new technology solutions to help mitigate the extreme challenges. Having an agile in-house team capable of creating sophisticated new solutions is “a tremendous muscle for the organization,” says Emily Kagan Trenchard. Northwell Health’s homegrown native app, winner of a platinum award Read More

Improving the Patient Experience Through Digital Transformation

// By Brian Griffin // Two health systems, one in Florida and one in South Dakota, are at the forefront of using technology to meet the rapidly changing expectations of healthcare consumers. The coronavirus, growing consumerism, and increased competition are contributing to decreased patient loyalty and a heightened need for healthcare organizations to improve the Read More

Northwell Health Takes Digital Patient Experience to New Heights

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // When the pandemic hit New York City, Northwell Health became a proving ground for new technology solutions to help mitigate the extreme challenges. Having an agile in-house team capable of creating sophisticated new solutions is “a tremendous muscle for the organization,” says Emily Kagan Trenchard. Northwell Health’s homegrown native Read More

Overcoming Pandemic-Related Team Communications Challenges

“Hospital and health system marketers and digital teams can stand tall at the end of 2021 and look back at a year in which they triumphed over some of their greatest challenges yet,” writes Jared Johnson of the Healthcare Rap podcast; he is also a member of the eHST Editorial Advisory Board.  Here’s an excerpt Read More

Coming Together for Patients: 2021 Year in Review

// By Jared Johnson // Hospital and health system marketers and digital teams can stand tall at the end of 2021 and look back at a year in which they triumphed over some of their greatest challenges yet. When considering everything that the industry went through and learned in 2021, it was a year that Read More

Geisinger’s Strategy? Focus on Quality Communication Rather Than What Google Is Doing

When you still remember what someone said in a webinar a year ago, you know it’s someone you’d like to hear more from. Sarah Sommer, vice president of digital engagement at Geisinger, was a panelist in our October 2020 webinar, “How to Build the Case for Increasing Your Digital Marketing Budget in 2021.” It was Read More

Geisinger’s Vice President of Digital Engagement Riffs on the Digital Front Door and the Road to Digital Maturity

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // When you still remember what someone said in a webinar a year ago, you know it’s someone you’d like to hear more from. Sarah Sommer, vice president of digital engagement at Geisinger, was a panelist in our October 2020 webinar, “How to Build the Case for Increasing Your Digital Read More

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