Focus On Privacy and Performance: Turning Privacy Management into a Strategic Advantage
This new report guides health systems on best practices for aligning privacy, performance, and ROI in a landscape that demands all three.
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2025 Healthcare Marketing Compliance Survey
The 2025 Healthcare Marketing Compliance Survey provides marketing leaders a snapshot of the state of tracking and privacy compliance for digital marketing in healthcare.
Complete the survey today, and you’ll receive:
- Early access to the survey results once they are fully compiled
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Focus on Privacy: Actionable Strategies for Privacy-First Consumer Marketing in Healthcare
In this new report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, you’ll discover actionable strategies and expert insights to navigate the complexities of consumer privacy in the healthcare marketing landscape.
Vanderbilt Health’s Analytics Journey Prioritizes Consumer Privacy
// By Jane Weber Brubaker // The healthcare privacy landscape has been in flux since 2022, after several healthcare organizations were sued for HIPAA violations. On August 1, 2024, Vanderbilt Health went live with its new HIPAA-compliant analytics solution. Here, we trace the journey from evaluation and selection to implementation, and its exciting new capabilities.
Google’s Cookie Conundrum: What it Means for Healthcare Advertisers
As the dominant player in online advertising, search, and browsing, Google routinely sets the online advertising world spinning. Its cookie policies are the latest upheaval as the company seeks to balance growing privacy concerns with its value proposition. We sat down with two experts to learn more about the cookie conundrum.
Cookies Are Back. What Does It Mean for Healthcare Advertisers?
// By Jane Weber Brubaker // As the dominant player in online advertising, search, and browsing, Google routinely sets the online advertising world spinning. Its cookie policies are the latest upheaval as the company seeks to balance growing privacy concerns with its value proposition. We sat down with two experts to learn more about the cookie conundrum.
Is Your Healthcare Website Ready for the Digital Future?
Advancements in digital technology are rapidly changing how consumers make decisions — especially about their healthcare. By integrating digital solutions into hospital websites, consumers have more access to the information they need. Hear from a panel of digital marketing leaders as they share best practices for future-proofing health system websites.
Prep for the Future of Websites: How Three Health Systems Create a Better Web Experience for Patients
// By Althea Fung // Advancements in digital technology are rapidly changing how consumers make decisions — especially about their healthcare. By integrating digital solutions into hospital websites, consumers have more access to the information they need. Hear from a panel of digital marketing leaders as they share best practices for future-proofing health system websites.
Privacy-First Foundation for High-Performance Healthcare Marketing
// By Ray Mina // Privacy regulations make healthcare marketing harder. A healthcare privacy platform adds a layer of protection, giving digital marketers access to the analytics tools they need without putting protected health information at risk. Find out how marketers get in hot water with regulators and how to structure your tech stack for HIPAA compliance.
Vital Signs: The State of Healthcare Digital Marketing, 2024
This free webinar will give marketers the insights you need to stay on top of how the healthcare marketing industry is changing.
Your Presenter
- Ben Dillon, Chief Executive Officer, Geonetric
You’ll Learn:
- Where budgets and staffing are being adjusted after healthcare’s post-pandemic financial crisis
- What digital investments health systems are prioritizing in the coming year
- How health systems are adapting to the recent HIPAA guidance on marketing tracking technology
- The variety of ways healthcare marketers are using generative AI tools and the barriers that exist
- And much more!
Newly Updated HHS Guidance: What Healthcare Marketers Need to Know
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has just offered its first update to its 2022 guidance on online tracking technologies and HIPAA compliance. The guidance gives some reassurance and some red flags for healthcare marketers when it comes to tracking technologies, sharing consumer data, and maintaining HIPAA compliance. Its original guidance in Read More
HHS Has Updated Its Guidance: What It Means for Your Organization
// By Rachael Sauceman // The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has just offered its first update to its 2022 guidance on online tracking technologies and HIPAA compliance. The guidance gives some reassurance and some red flags for healthcare marketers. Find out what the updates mean for healthcare organizations.
Privacy-First Healthcare Marketing: What it Means and Who Should Be Involved
What does it really mean to embrace a privacy-first communications approach? That’s just one of the many questions we wanted to answer during a recent webinar, Privacy-First: How to Ensure Your Healthcare Marketing Aligns with HIPAA. This webinar was presented on February 1, 2024 by eHealthcare Strategy & Trends. The panel discussion explored safer ways Read More
Privacy-First Marketing: HIPAA Guidance for Your Healthcare Communications
// By Elaine Christie // What does it really mean to embrace a privacy-first communications approach? That’s just one of the many questions we wanted to answer during a recent webinar. This article offers tips for creating a safer-by-default tech stack that still offers clear visibility into the customer journey without compromising patient trust.
Navigating the Privacy Landscape in 2023 and Beyond
The issue of pixel tracking tied to third-party website analytics tools was the big story of 2022 and 2023. It’s been about a year and a half — June 2022 to be exact — since several leading technology media outlets published the results of a joint study by The Markup and STAT News. The study Read More
A Year in Privacy: Concerns, Challenges, and Remediations
What marketers need to know now to navigate the changing landscape and what lies ahead. // By Daniel Fell // The issue of pixel tracking tied to third-party website analytics tools was the big story of 2022 and 2023. It’s been about a year and a half — June 2022 to be exact — since Read More
4 Tips for Maintaining HIPAA Compliance and Managing Online Tracking Risks
Digital marketing got a lot riskier when HHS rolled out its “Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates” bulletin last December. What steps should you take to manage the risks? Change often feels like the only constant in the world of healthcare marketing. And oh, what a year of change! Read More
Traffic Risks: Next Steps for Tracking Pixels and HIPAA Compliance
Digital marketing got a lot riskier when HHS rolled out its “Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates” bulletin last December. What steps should you take to manage the risks? // By Elaine Christie // Change often feels like the only constant in the world of healthcare marketing. And oh, Read More
HIPAA Compliance FAQs: Your Guide to Healthcare Data Protection
Have questions about how to manage tracking technologies in light of HHS/OCR guidance? So do your peers. Here are some answers from two technology leaders. “When HHS and OCR opened up a huge can of worms last December, they created some chaos in the universe of healthcare marketers who work for entities covered by HIPAA,” Read More
WebMD Ignite Responds to Frequently Asked Questions About HIPAA and Tracking Technologies
Have questions about how to manage tracking technologies in light of HHS/OCR guidance? So do your peers. Here are some answers from two technology leaders. // By Jane Weber Brubaker // When HHS and OCR opened up a huge can of worms last December, they created some chaos in the universe of healthcare marketers who Read More
How Your Health System Website Can Be Your Best Digital Salesperson
Against a backdrop of rapidly emerging digital marketing tools, the venerable website deserves as much attention as ever. Your website should be your best salesperson. It’s often the first point of contact with your company’s products and services for the majority of potential customers. Anything from a Google search to a radio ad or a Read More
Your Best Salesperson, Revisited: The Power of a Good Website Among Today’s Digital Marketing Tools
Against a backdrop of rapidly emerging digital marketing tools, the venerable website deserves as much attention as ever. // By Paul DeLeeuw // Your website should be your best salesperson. It’s often the first point of contact with your company’s products and services for the majority of potential customers. Anything from a Google search to Read More
Solving the HIPAA Conundrum
// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Can healthcare marketers leverage tracking technologies the way they used to without risking noncompliance? When HHS stepped on the gas last December — issuing ominous warnings about HIPAA, tracking pixels, and PHI — healthcare marketers and legal and compliance teams put the brakes on fast. But some organizations had Read More
5 Ways to Measure Marketing Growth Beyond Tracking Pixels
Health system marketing is more than gathering marketing pixel data — it’s about creating measurable business growth that offers real value and builds long-term loyalty. Amid the turbulence of healthcare privacy reforms, marketers are caught up in a tug of war between adherence and effectiveness. While debates about tracking pixels, OCR’s guidance, and evolving state Read More
5 Strategies for Measuring ROI and Growth: It’s Not Only About Tracking Pixels
// By Shawn Gross // Health system marketing is more than gathering marketing pixel data — it’s about creating measurable business growth that offers real value and builds long-term loyalty. Amid the turbulence of healthcare privacy reforms, marketers are caught up in a tug of war between adherence and effectiveness. While debates about tracking pixels, OCR’s Read More