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

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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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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Mobile Apps for Healthcare Providers: Your Patients Need More Than Just a Portal.

An investment in mobile is essential to compete in today’s healthcare marketplace. But should you build or buy?

Meeting customers where they are — on devices they use, in ways that are familiar and seamless — continues to separate leaders from laggards in the healthcare provider space.

Mobile-first strategies, particularly mobile apps, have become a critical part of these efforts.

The mobile app conversation is not a simple one, even if the choices themselves are relatively straightforward: build your own proprietary mobile app or use an existing EHR-provided app, such as Epic’s MyChart.

Download this new white paper today to get insights on how to lead your organization to the right decision.

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

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

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

What Is the State of CRM Today, and How Does It Measure Up to Healthcare Industry Needs?

Ask the Expert, with Bob Cummings, Senior Vice President, Healthcare at LeadSquared // By Jane Weber Brubaker // 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 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

5 Areas of Digital Operations You Shouldn’t Compromise on When Finances Are Tight

“When you’re asked to make budget cuts, some things should not be on the chopping block,” writes JoAnne Gritter in a new article. “Who will visit your website or download your app today? What about in the future? Who in your health system will be responsible for serving patients, clinicians, and other visitors after your Read More

Managing Your Online Presence When Money Is Tight: Where Not to Scrimp and Save

// By JoAnne Gritter // An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. When you’re asked to make budget cuts, some things should not be on the chopping block. Who will visit your website or download your app today? What about in the future? Who in your health system will be responsible for Read More

Optimized Healthcare Marketing: A Fully Integrated and Transparent Funnel

“I’ve been a healthcare marketer for what seems like a very long time (20 years), with a big chunk of that at Scripps Health in San Diego,” writes Marc Needham, chief growth officer for Combinaut. “Over that very long period, I’ve seen lots of seemingly impossible problems vanish and other problems that seemed easily remedied Read More

Bright Lights, Big Data: Building a Platform for Optimized Healthcare Marketing

// By Marc Needham // A fully integrated and transparent funnel allows you to focus your efforts where they’re going to really make a difference.  When my kids first meet other kids their age, they perform a funny little ritual. There’s typically some introductory small talk and then they start to drill for common interests, Read More

Survey: Patients Need Continued Engagement with Providers Outside of the Doctor’s Office

// By Althea Fung // A recent survey found that half of the respondents get most of their COVID-19 information from media reports. About a third of respondents believe that no one has provided clear information consistently about COVID-19. Patient engagement is a critical piece of patient care. Studies have linked patient engagement with improved Read More

Why Accurate Customer Data Is So Crucial – and Complex

“The data needed to run a modern healthcare marketing program is becoming vaster and more complex every day, and marketers will require ever more sophisticated tools to manage this data more efficiently and effectively in the future,” says Daniel Fell. Fell is a senior strategist with Optum and a member of the eHealthcare Strategy & Read More

How Customer Data Platforms Can Power More Consumer-Driven Opportunities in Healthcare

// By Daniel Fell // The data needed to run a modern healthcare marketing program is becoming vaster and more complex every day, and marketers will require ever more sophisticated tools to manage this data more efficiently and effectively in the future. According to a recent State of Marketing report from Salesforce, the median number Read More

When Stewardship Is a Core Value, Cost Management Is Critical

AMITA Health is one of the largest health systems in Illinois and provides care to nearly 6.6 million residents of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. The system consists of 15 acute care hospitals, four specialty hospitals, 20 urgent care centers, and outpatient care centers for primary care and many specialties. “At AMITA, one of our Read More

Chicago-Area Health System Puts Spotlight on Identifying and Managing High Costs

// By Jim Samuel // Hospitals and health systems across the country are constantly looking for ways to identify and manage unnecessary spending — for themselves and for patients. Controlling costs is particularly important when one of your system’s core values is stewardship. That’s why Chicago-based AMITA Health turned to an app that gives providers Read More

Making Virtual Visits Scalable and Sustainable

Even as healthcare organizations build out their marketing stacks to better reach, engage, and serve patients and prospective patients, health technology companies are building stacks of their own, for some of the same reasons — to help their clients improve patient access and convenience. NextGen Healthcare was named by KLAS in 2021 as the top Read More

COVID Accelerates Digital-First Strategy at Two Systems

Bon Secours Mercy Health, a 50-hospital health system spanning seven states and Ireland, was in the midst of redefining the patient journey experience when COVID hit. “We’re one of the five largest Catholic healthcare systems in the U.S. — we have thousands of points of care and 60,000 associates. So, as you can imagine, making Read More

Texting: A Surprisingly Simple Strategy for Coordinating Vaccine Appointments

With the rush to get Americans vaccinated, organizations struggled to find the best way to contact patients to coordinate vaccine appointments, especially when demand exceeded supply. Adnan Iqbal, CEO of Luma Health, a San Francisco-based patient engagement platform, found many clients wanted to use the platform to get patients signed up at the appropriate time. Read More

Want to Drive Patient Satisfaction and Capture More Market Share for Your Physicians? Make It Easy for Patients to Self-Schedule Virtual Visits

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Even as healthcare organizations build out their marketing stacks to better reach, engage, and serve patients and prospective patients, health technology companies are building stacks of their own, for some of the same reasons — to help their clients improve patient access and convenience. NextGen Healthcare was named by Read More

How Two Health Systems Leverage CRM and EHR Functionality to Create the Digital Patient Experience Consumers Expect 

// By Althea Fung // Bon Secours Mercy Health, a 50-hospital health system spanning seven states and Ireland, was in the midst of redefining the patient journey experience when COVID hit. “We’re one of the five largest Catholic healthcare systems in the U.S. — we have thousands of points of care and 60,000 associates. So, Read More

Text Messaging Beats Out Email, Apps for Coordinating Vaccine and Other Appointments

// By Althea Fung // Within the first three months of 2021, Chicago’s Cook County Health scheduled one million COVID-19 vaccination appointments, using text messaging at scale.  With the rush to get Americans vaccinated, organizations struggled to find the best way to contact patients to coordinate vaccine appointments, especially when demand exceeded supply. Adnan Iqbal, Read More

Healthcare Data Is Growing, With a Profound Impact

“According to IDC, data in healthcare is expected to grow at a rate of 36 percent per year through 2025, outranking industries such as manufacturing, media, and financial services,” says Salchin Kalra, vice president of customer success at Infostretch. He says this is no accident. Read on for an excerpt from his new article: Data Read More

Data Is Redefining the Patient Experience and Driving Revenue in Healthcare

// By Sachin Kalra // According to IDC, data in healthcare is expected to grow at a rate of 36 percent per year through 2025, outranking industries such as manufacturing, media, and financial services. This is no accident. Data has long been a driver of change in the healthcare industry, and its impact has been Read More

Learn How One System Is Fighting COVID Via Digital Transformation

COVID-19 has disrupted American healthcare — killing more than half a million people, including more than 2,900 healthcare workers; challenging bed and equipment capacity; and canceling elective health services. But it also has sped up digital transformation of healthcare and brought to the forefront innovative approaches to how patients receive care. Providence, a Seattle-based 51-hospital Read More