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Healthcare Digital Transformation: 9 Key Elements for Success

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AMCs are places where the quest for knowledge intertwines seamlessly with the commitment to healing. At the heart of every Academic Medical Center (AMC) beats a rhythm of innovation and progress. Now, overlay a complex digital ecosystem, where innovation is the currency of progress. In this dynamic landscape there’s a formidable challenge looming on the Read More

Strategic Web Consolidation: How Michigan Medicine Streamlined Its Digital Presence

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In a time when digital presence is paramount, many healthcare organizations may face the challenge of maintaining a cohesive online identity. At Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, departments across the medical school, research facilities, and health centers developed independent websites to communicate externally. But without a centralized governance structure, Read More

Navigating the Minefield of Academic Medical Center Digital Transformations

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// By Allison Minutillo // Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) merge knowledge and healing with innovation. In a complex digital ecosystem, transformation is essential. This article explores key drivers, universal challenges, and success elements crucial for healthy digital shifts. Discover how your digital project can become a catalyst for transformation within your organization.

Digital Transformation of Michigan Medicine Through Strategic Web Consolidation

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// By Althea Fung // Faced with fragmented digital identities across departments, Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, unified its digital presence, overcoming the lack of centralized governance. Discover how Michigan Medicine streamlined 300 websites into four, unifying its brand identity and enhancing the user experience.

A Best in Breed Data Platform + Healthcare CRM: A “Match Made in Heaven”

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// By Jane Weber Brubaker // If the promise of CRM in healthcare has been largely unfulfilled, data silos are partially to blame. Innovaccer’s acquisition of digital marketing and CRM platform Cured earlier this year could solve data challenges and accelerate growth for health systems. One benefit of mixing and mingling at industry events is Read More

Overcoming Your Digital Challenges With Effective Change Management

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How is it possible that a health system operating in four U.S. states and three countries in Central and South America with 50,000 employees would be invisible to search engines — unless you searched on it by name? Take cardiology for example. CHRISTUS Health has a 100-bed heart hospital in Tyler, Texas. It is the Read More

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

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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?

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// 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

Personalization Can Help Drive Consumer Loyalty

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Over the past few years, various industries have realized that personal data on consumers can be leveraged to create curated experiences. In addition, research shows that when executed well, personalization helps businesses differentiate themselves and drives up consumer loyalty. Increasingly, consumers expect some level of personalization when interacting with companies. According to a recent survey Read More

Survey Shows Consumers Crave a Personalized Healthcare Experience

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// By Althea Fung // In ecommerce, personalization is used to build relationships with consumers and sell them more goods. In healthcare, the goal of personalization is to improve health outcomes. After weeks of receiving emails from Old Navy promoting joggers — fleece-lined joggers, comfy-cozy joggers, $12 joggers, I finally caved. When I clicked on Read More

What Are the Top Industry Priorities for 2022?

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Digital technologies are transforming how healthcare is delivered and ushering in new competitors to the market from nontraditional spaces like retail and payers. Large insurance companies are acquiring or developing physician practices in markets across the country. For example, OptumCare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare, employs or is affiliated with 50,000 doctors — the largest provider Read More

Who Gets a Seat at the Healthcare Table in 2022?

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// By Althea Fung // Digital technologies are transforming how healthcare is delivered and ushering in new competitors to the market from nontraditional spaces like retail and payers. Large insurance companies are acquiring or developing physician practices in markets across the country. For example, OptumCare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare, employs or is affiliated with 50,000 Read More

What Will it Take to Move Healthcare to Full Digital Enablement?

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“I really hope that in the next 10 years the term ‘digital health’ is retired because all healthcare will be digitally enabled,” says Margo Schneider, senior director of digital strategy at UW Medicine. Schneider, along with Tara Nooteboom, director of strategic and digital growth at Rush System for Health, and Prem Batchu-Green, customer experience designer Read More

Sustaining and Accelerating Digital Health Innovation in a Post-COVID World

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// By Jane Weber Brubaker // “I really hope that in the next 10 years the term ‘digital health’ is retired because all healthcare will be digitally enabled,” says Margo Schneider, senior director of digital strategy at UW Medicine. Schneider, with co-panelists Tara Nooteboom, director of strategic and digital growth at Rush System for Health, 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