Social Listening

Social Listening and Essential Response

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How to use social media to your brand’s advantage. // By Meagan Saxton // Using social media as a tool for customer service is a cornerstone of digital marketing in the 21st century. But it isn’t as simple as firing off a series of posts on X in response to angry customers. In fact, responding Read More

6 Ways to Use Generative AI Responsibly

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It’s no exaggeration to say 2023 has been the Year of AI — and the use of AI technologies in healthcare marketing is no exception. You can probably rattle off a host of marketing benefits. There are seemingly unlimited new AI tools every day to accelerate strategic priorities and get more work done in less Read More

Digital Ethnography Sheds New Light on Online Patient Behavior

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How well do you really understand your target audience? Whether that’s patients, prospective employees, donors, or any other stakeholders you want to reach and influence, it’s easy to make incorrect assumptions about why they behave the way they do. In the digital realm, social listening tools help organizations hear what people say online, and analyze Read More

What Is Digital Ethnography, and Why Should You Use It?

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Ask the Expert, with Dean Browell, Chief Behavioral Officer at Feedback  “We want to know if there’s a gap between what they’re saying when you’re courting them from a survey standpoint, versus what they’re actually doing out in the wild.”  // By Jane Weber Brubaker // How well do you really understand your target audience? Read More

Data-Driven Healthcare Marketing: Why It Needs Both Big Data and Thick Data

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Healthcare marketers should no longer overlook the powerful qualities of qualitative or “thick” data that delivers rich, deep insights and meaning that quantitative data often can’t provide. Instead, healthcare organizations should aim to develop a data-driven healthcare marketing strategy that integrates both big data and thick data to unlock new opportunities for growth. Some readers Read More

Big Data vs. Thick Data: The Road to Data-Driven Marketing

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// By Daniel Fell and Dean Browell, PhD // Marketers shouldn’t overlook the incredibly powerful qualities of qualitative or “thick” data that delivers rich, deep insights and meaning that quantitative data often can’t provide. Some readers may recall the popular “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” campaign that ran in the early 2000s, a tongue-in-cheek Read More

AI Tools You Need to Boost Your Healthcare Marketing on Social Media

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As hospitals and health systems seek to expand their digital presence, they are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to enhance their social media marketing strategies. So, is your organization staying on top of the AI trends? You’ve likely already experienced this scenario. You sidle up to your computer, scroll to ChatGPT, and type in a Read More

How AI Makes Healthcare Social Media Marketing Easier and Faster

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// By Wendy Margolin // In these early days of AI use, it can feel like magic. Naysayers will argue that AI delivers cookie-cutter responses and doesn’t create engaging content. But can it? Read this article to find out. You’ve likely already experienced this scenario. You sidle up to your computer, scroll to ChatGPT, and 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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How Nebraska Medicine Stepped Up Its Already-Robust Communications During COVID

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Nebraska Medicine is a global leader in infectious diseases, and its experts have been in demand since the earliest days of the pandemic — locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Nebraska Medicine held the first U.S. COVID-19 press conference in January 2020, well before a global pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization. The following Read More

What Can AI Unlock for You as a Healthcare Marketer?

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// By Jane Weber Brubaker // “AI” and “machine learning” are terms that get batted around a lot these days. We know that there’s great promise on the clinical side to take vast amounts of data and use AI to make discoveries that would be impossible for humans to find on their own — akin Read More

Wrapping Social Justice Into Your Social Media Efforts

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The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the inequities and injustice of American society. Communities of color bore about three times the burden of COVID-19 infections and deaths as White communities. While job losses were universal, Latinos and Blacks had the highest unemployment rate — about 19 and 17 percent, respectively. The world watched as people Read More

Social Media and the Social Justice Movement: Finding Your Voice

Stephanie Purinton

// By Althea Fung // The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the inequities and injustice of American society. Communities of color bore about three times the burden of COVID-19 infections and deaths as White communities. While job losses were universal, Latinos and Blacks had the highest unemployment rate — about 19 and 17 percent, respectively. Read More

Leverage Your EHR To Boost Your Marketing Efforts

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When Virtua Health, a southern New Jersey-based health system, acquired Lourdes Health System in 2019, the leadership team decided it would be a good time to continue to build on how the now five-hospital system was investing in its marketing initiatives. “[The marketing department] had an opportunity to build technology platforms that could help them Read More

How Virtua Health Turned Its EHR into a Powerful Marketing Tool

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// By Althea Fung // When Virtua Health, a southern New Jersey-based health system, acquired Lourdes Health System in 2019, the leadership team decided it would be a good time to continue to build on how the now five-hospital system was investing in its marketing initiatives. “[The marketing department] had an opportunity to build technology Read More