Digital Marketing, Communications and Strategy for Healthcare Leaders

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Trendwatch: New Research Examines the Latest Digital Customer Experience Trends in Marketing

June 7, 2023

Salesforce chart image from their "State of Marketing" 8th edition report

In an era of heightened patient expectations and evolving consumer behaviors, the digital customer experience has emerged as a critical component in healthcare marketing, playing a pivotal role in delivering personalized care, enhancing patient satisfaction, and driving organizational growth. Slowly but surely, leaders of healthcare organizations are recognizing the strategic value that marketing brings to Read More

Digital Customer Experience: Where Are We on the Progress Bar?

May 29, 2023

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Two research reports examine the state of marketing and digital customer experience across industries. Slowly but surely, leaders of healthcare organizations are recognizing the strategic value that marketing brings to the table. Technology adoption and increasing competence in its use to meet consumers at the point of their need Read More

Leveraging Data Analytics to Prove the Value of Your Healthcare Marketing

December 21, 2022

Why travel by horse and buggy when you can drive a Tesla? That’s the metaphor used by three presenters at a recent conference to explain how MedStar Health went from the dark ages of measurement to a souped-up analytics platform that enables insightful, actionable, and easy-to-understand reporting. Ben Waxman, president of Tessellati, LLC, jokes that Read More

MedStar Health Supercharges Its Data and Analytics Capabilities

December 19, 2022

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Do your marketing dollars drive results for your organization? Without the right analytics tools, it’s hard to know — or prove. Why travel by horse and buggy when you can drive a Tesla? That’s the metaphor three presenters at SHSMD Connections 2022 — the annual conference of the Society Read More

Optimized Healthcare Marketing: A Fully Integrated and Transparent Funnel

October 12, 2022

“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

October 10, 2022

// 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

Why Healthcare Marketing Needs a New Approach to Analytics

December 5, 2018

Carrie Liken, head of healthcare industry at Yext

“We are in the New Age of Discovery,” says Carrie Liken, head of industry for healthcare at Yext. “It’s all about how a patient is exposed to and finds your health system, your brand, and your providers. Patients are discovering healthcare differently today than they did even two years ago. And this requires new ways of Read More

Healthcare Marketing Analytics: The Age of Discovery and the Need for a New Approach to Analytics

November 6, 2018

// By Carrie Liken // We are in the New Age of Discovery. It’s all about how a patient is exposed to and finds your health system, your brand, and your providers. Patients are discovering healthcare differently today than they did even two years ago. And this requires new ways of approaching your marketing strategies Read More

Data-Driven Marketing, A Successful Bariatric Campaign, and More

August 1, 2018

David Duvall, senior vice president and chief marketing and communications officer, Novant Health

There’s so much to keep up with in our world of healthcare marketing, and in our new feature, Snippets, we want to give you brief highlights from some of the things that catch our attention in the digital realm, snippets of webinars, podcasts, and other content that just might help you solve your latest challenge. Read More

Snippets: Novant Health’s Marketing Chief Weighs In; New Case Study from Legacy Health

June 28, 2018

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // There’s so much to keep up with in our world of healthcare marketing, and in this new feature, Snippets, we want to give you brief highlights from some of the things that catch our attention in the digital realm, snippets of webinars, podcasts, and other content that just might Read More