The Right Patient at the Right Time: How UCHealth Uses Automated Messaging to Drive Patient Retention

// By Bill Altorfer //

UCHealth piloted triggered email reminders for breast cancer screenings, generating almost 1,000 mammogram appointments.

This past year was a year of transformation for UCHealth. Although such transformation during the COVID pandemic was challenging, it also gave rise to opportunities to improve patient experience in ways that weren’t initially on UCHealth’s strategic roadmap. What began in the fall of 2019 as an implementation of a new CRM environment and a migration of marketing automation platforms progressed from foundational newsletter campaigns into multichannel consumer journeys incorporating a variety of first-party data sources.

Heather Rose, director of marketing automation, UCHealth

Heather Rose, director of marketing automation at UCHealth, outlined the heightened sense of urgency to accelerate adoption of the new technology. “As COVID progressed, we were getting reports of people skipping or delaying screenings and therefore coming in with more progressed illnesses,” she says.

Reaching the right patient at the right time has been a driving principle behind UCHealth’s marketing automation and patient communication strategies from the get-go. With new technology in place, powered by first-party data streams, there were suddenly opportunities for UCHealth’s marketing team to play a critical role in facilitating needed encounters. Screening reminders seemed like a natural place to start.

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