Patient Engagement

Building Healthcare Experiences Patients Love

Jennifer Carron

// By Elaine Christie // Patients today want more. They want digital experiences that are fast, easy, and personalized. If your healthcare organization doesn’t keep up, it’s time for a serious digital makeover. Here’s how to create a roadmap that boosts patient loyalty, reduces friction, and makes your organization feel like the user-friendly apps patients like using.

How the Vanderbilt Health Consumer-Focused Website Boosts Engagement and Conversions

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// By Althea Fung // Websites play a crucial role in how consumers access information and make decisions. When designed properly, websites provide convenient, easy access to products, services, and information, and drive engagement and loyalty. Learn how Vanderbilt Health leveraged a comprehensive health library and headless CMS to boost engagement and conversions.

Ignite Excellence: Winning Strategies for Digital Patient Experience

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Panelists:

  • Ben Dillon, CEO, Geonetric
  • Matt McKinney, Director, Digital Engagement, Cone Health
  • Kishore Reddipeta, Director, Web Systems and Technologies, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health

Moderator:

  • Susan Dubuque, Contributing Editor, eHealthcare Strategy & Trends and Co-Chair, 2024 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • The breadth, scope, and depth of winning patient experience strategies and tools
  • How website and digital health steering committees guide planning
  • Best practices for implementing patient experience initiatives
  • How to prioritize investments for maximum impact
  • And much more!

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The Health System Digital Front Door: Enhancing Patient Access, Engagement, and Experience

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A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends member roundtable, featuring winners from the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

Your Panelists:

  • Jennifer Segalini, VP of Strategy at Phase2
  • Amanda Jones, Senior Director of Digital Engagement at Geisinger
  • Jennifer Mackendree, System Director of Marketing at Health First
  • Nardeep Singh, Marketing Technology Manager at Renown Health

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • The breadth, scope, and depth of DFD strategies and tools
  • Best practices for implementing a DFD
  • Practical tips for enhancing patient engagement and satisfaction
  • How a DFD can impact marketing outcomes
  • How to prioritize DFD investments for maximum impact
  • And much more!

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

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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

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// 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 Health System Digital Front Door: Enhancing Patient Access, Engagement, and Experience

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A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends member roundtable, featuring winners from the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

Wednesday | August 7, 2024 | 2 p.m. Eastern

Your Panelists:

  • Jennifer Segalini, VP of Strategy at Phase2
  • Amanda Jones, Senior Director of Digital Engagement at Geisinger
  • Jennifer Mackendree, System Director of Marketing at Health First
  • Nardeep Singh, Marketing Technology Manager at Renown Health

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • The breadth, scope, and depth of DFD strategies and tools
  • Best practices for implementing a DFD
  • Practical tips for enhancing patient engagement and satisfaction
  • How a DFD can impact marketing outcomes
  • How to prioritize DFD investments for maximum impact
  • And much more!

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

Jamey Sheil, Advocate Health

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

Set Your Healthcare Marketing Up for Success in 2024

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2023 was a tough year for healthcare marketers. Budgets were cut, priorities slid in a dozen different directions at once, and tools we’ve used for decades became poisoned chalices locked behind glass by our Security and Compliance teams. 2024 looks like it is going to be a year of recovery: healthier margins, more favorable patient Read More

Two Easy Things Healthcare Marketers Can Do to Start 2024 with a Bang

This is the perfect time to turbocharge your marketing efforts, demonstrate success, and give your patients the best possible digital experience. // By Marc Needham // 2023 was a tough year for healthcare marketers. Budgets were cut, priorities slid in a dozen different directions at once, and tools we’ve used for decades became poisoned chalices Read More

Marketing Magic? Virtua Health Integrates CRM Data and Predictive AI to Deliver Targeted Messaging

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Imagine tracking the direct patient journey from receiving a piece of marketing content to undergoing life-saving surgery. You could measure the direct correlation of your hospital marketing communication team’s effort to improve patient outcomes. It’s every healthcare marketer’s dream — to save lives while also proving your department’s worth. That’s precisely what Virtua Health’s marketing Read More

Practical Applications of AI in Healthcare Marketing: Elevating Patient & Employee Engagement and ROI

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A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends webinar for healthcare marketers and strategists

Your Presenters:

  • Jenny Collopy, VP, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, The Christ Hospital Health Network
  • John Elder, Co-Founder and CEO, Supernatural
  • Mike Barrett, Co-Founder and CSO, Supernatural
  • Bianca Chaer, Strategist, Supernatural

You’ll learn:

  • An overview of the general AI landscape: different types of AI, how they are used, and presenters’ point of view on the use of these tools.
  • How to do more than just “Use ChatGPT”
  • The current landscape of AI in healthcare marketing, specifically how more relevant content can help improve marketing outcomes.
  • Where AI is making an impact for people in their day-to-day workflow, right now.
  • How AI can help understand and address the needs of different populations effectively.
  • How AI can customize content to live across multiple platforms for a variety of different audiences.
  • How AI can help optimize healthcare marketing campaigns — specifically:
    • How AI can help you understand the competitive environment
    • How you can use AI to make content
    • How you can use AI to evaluate that content
    • How you can use AI for channel strategy and media planning

And much much more!

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The Power of Personalized Patient Retention Marketing

Bridget Reuter

How Virtua Health tracked marketing efforts to revenue dollars and patient outcomes. // By Wendy Margolin // Imagine tracking the direct patient journey from receiving a piece of marketing content to undergoing life-saving surgery. You could measure the direct correlation of your hospital marketing communication team’s effort to improve patient outcomes. It’s every healthcare marketer’s Read More

An Unfiltered Conversation About AI — With AI Itself

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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

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// 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

Avoiding Communication Biases When Marketing Hybrid Care

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// By Heidi Jannenga // Using the example of physical therapy, this author makes the case for eliminating unconscious age bias that assumes older patients are less interested in digital communications and telehealth. The truth is patients of all ages want and need a hybrid approach to care and communications that will help them achieve Read More

What Drives Success for Today’s Healthcare Digital Teams?

Margo Schneider

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

Pamela Landis

// 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

Call for Entries for the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards Now Open

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// By Susan Dubuque // We’re pleased to announce that the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards Call for Entries is officially open! It’s time to review all the great things you’ve accomplished and prepare to receive the recognition you deserve. Throughout the pandemic, digital tools and tactics saved the day — allowing organizations to maintain productivity by 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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eHealthcare Leadership Awards: A Microcosm of Our Field

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For more than two decades, the eHealthcare Leadership Awards have showcased creativity and innovation in digital communications that support healthcare organizations’ marketing and business goals, and enhance patient and consumer experiences. Here’s a message from the new co-chair of the awards, Susan Dubuque: I am honored to serve as co-chair for this year’s eHealthcare Leadership Read More