Patient-Centered Approach

Bringing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to Life in Today’s Healthcare Environment

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// By Susan Dubuque // The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted health disparities in the U.S., which disproportionately affected vulnerable and underserved communities. This article will present examples of DEI in action through three award-winning entries in the Best Digital Leadership in Health Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion category from the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards.

Inside Stanford Children’s Innovative Digital Strategy to Enhance Patient Experience

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Stanford Medicine Children’s Health award-winning Web Services digital team takes its patient-first philosophy to heart, developing cutting-edge tools and digital solutions for access, convenience, communication, education, and even a little fun along the way. Learn how Stanford Medicine Children’s Health deploys innovative digital technology to enhance patient experience.

Connected Care: Elevating Patient Experience with Innovative Digital Solutions

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// By Susan Dubuque // Stanford Medicine Children’s Health award-winning Web Services digital team takes its patient-first philosophy to heart, developing cutting-edge tools and digital solutions for access, convenience, communication, education, and even a little fun along the way. Learn how Stanford Medicine Children’s Health deploys innovative digital technology to enhance patient experience.

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

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Your Presenters:

  • Mike Sonnentag, Senior Service Line Marketing Strategist, Virtua Health
  • Seth Kaplan, Director, Marketing and Customer Engagement, HonorHealth
  • Ross Therrien, Enterprise Account Executive (Healthcare), LeadSquared

Moderated by:

  • Jane Weber Brubaker, Executive Editor, Plain-English Health Care

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.

Watch Now »

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

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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.

Register Now »

Mobile vs. Desktop: Designing Healthcare Websites for the Modern User

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In the ever-evolving landscape of wireless technology, mobile devices have emerged as a dominant force, transforming the way we access information and services. As mobile healthcare takes center stage in the wireless era, healthcare marketers are modernizing their strategies to cater to the growing demand for mobile experiences and meet evolving consumer expectations. Today, according Read More

Platinum Award-Winning Mobile Websites Offer Enhanced User Experience

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// By Arthur Hill // For Inspira Health and University of Iowa Health Care, mobile design is not an afterthought. Today, according to CTIA, a trade organization for the wireless communications industry, Americans own 499 million wireless devices capable of transmitting and receiving broadband signals 117 percent faster than just 13 years ago. In 2021, Read More

Well-Earned CRM “Magic” at Ochsner Health System

Is it possible for health systems to have their own version of “set it and forget it”? Can they really set up campaigns in their CRMs and let them run automatically based on pre-set rules? Maybe not right out of the gate, but with diligence, healthcare marketers can learn to crawl, then walk, then run Read More

Living the Dream of CRM at Ochsner Health System

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Is it possible for health systems to have their own version of “set it and forget it”? Can they really set up campaigns in their CRMs and let them run automatically based on pre-set rules? Maybe not right out of the gate, but with diligence, healthcare marketers can learn Read More

How Jefferson Health Is Successfully Leveraging Telehealth

Frank Sites, vice president of Connected Care operations at Jefferson Health

In an address to the Alliance for Connected Care Telehealth Policy Forum in 2018, CMS administrator Seema Verma said, “Telehealth is changing the very face of healthcare.” She’s right. Studies have found that telehealth programs have reduced 30-day hospital readmission rates for heart failure patients, sped up the time to treatment for patients experiencing a Read More

How To Merge 24 Sites Across Two Separate Health Systems

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Anyone who has worked in healthcare communications and digital marketing understands that a website relaunch project can be a daunting task. But one that involves merging 24 existing websites across two separate health systems sounds downright intimidating. In early 2017, that’s exactly what the RWJBarnabas Health web team was facing. They were on the hook Read More

What Consumers Really Want From the Healthcare Experience

Each month, NRC Health surveys American consumers about their healthcare experiences and preferences. And every month, the data seems to point to the same conclusion: Consumers want healthcare organizations to stop acting like healthcare organizations. The NRC survey polls more than 500,000 Americans and 100-plus healthcare CEOs. It also includes more than 300 face-to-face interviews Read More

Site Redesign Focuses on Accessibility for All

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When you consider accessibility at a hospital or clinic, the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network in Boston, Massachusetts, is an excellent example. The buildings where patients receive treatment are easily accessed by people of all abilities, and the staff works hard to accommodate everyone who steps through Spaulding’s doors. But accessibility is about more than just the Read More

Building the Children’s Hospital of the Future

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How do you build the children’s hospital of the future? Start by asking family members, patients, clinicians, and other healthcare providers what they want. That is exactly what MUSC Health did when designing MUSC’s new Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital set to open in October 2019. More than 20 different committees comprising hospital staff, physicians, nurses, Read More

Technology Plays Key Role in Patient-Centered Room of the Future

// By Sheryl S. Jackson // How do you build the children’s hospital of the future? Start by asking family members, patients, clinicians, and other healthcare providers what they want. That is exactly what MUSC Health did when designing MUSC’s new Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital set to open in October 2019. More than 20 different Read More

StartUp Health Takes Aim at “Moonshots”

Steven Krein, CEO and co-founder of StartUp Health

Every year, thousands of investors and healthcare industry leaders descend on San Francisco for the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. It’s a huge, four-day event that brings together start-ups, large corporations, providers, and pharmaceutical companies. But down the street, while the J.P. Morgan conference is just getting started, another community of healthcare innovators gathers to Read More

Teaming Up with Entrepreneurs to Tackle Healthcare’s Biggest Challenges

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// By Melanie Graham // Every year, thousands of investors and healthcare industry leaders descend on San Francisco for the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. It’s a huge, four-day event that brings together start-ups, large corporations, providers, and pharmaceutical companies. But down the street, while the J.P. Morgan conference is just getting started, another community Read More

New Tool Provides a More Holistic View of Patients

Michael Bennick, MD, medical director for patient experience at Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale New Haven Health

Few things in life are as personal as our health, yet when we seek care, it can often feel impersonal. How well does a physician really know us? How comfortable are we in openly discussing the real reason for our visit — the one we didn’t share when we made the appointment online or spoke Read More