Mount Sinai and University of Maryland Medical Center Lead with High-Impact Integrated Campaigns

With countless media channels to choose from, shrinking budgets, and growing demands for measurable results, today’s healthcare marketing professionals face increasing challenges in developing and implementing integrated marketing campaigns. Discover how marketing teams at Mount Sinai and the University of Maryland Medical Center built high-impact integrated campaigns — from concept to acclaim.

How AI Enhances Human Marketing Intelligence in Healthcare

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // AI’s ability to analyze large datasets at scale gives marketers “a world of possibilities” for thinking and planning strategically. In this Ask the Expert Q&A, Amanda Herriman discusses how AI is reshaping digital behavior, and why healthcare organizations need to adapt their content strategies for tools like Google’s AI Overviews.

Access, Experience, and Market Intelligence Drive Strategic Growth

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // In a recent webinar, three marketing leaders took the conversation about customer growth up a notch — from patient acquisition tactics and media spend to what should be the heart of effective strategies. Learn how they view the challenges and opportunities of growth, where to focus efforts, and how to grow smarter.

Conference Preview: HCIC 2025 Heats Up in Las Vegas

We asked people who have supported HCIC for many years what makes it such a valuable conference that they keep coming back year after year. Here, we share their comments and highlight sessions you won’t want to miss. Join healthcare marketing leaders and innovators, November 9-12 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.

Go All In on Digital Marketing Success at HCIC 2025

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // We asked people who have supported HCIC for many years what makes it such a valuable conference that they keep coming back year after year. Here, we share their comments and highlight sessions you won’t want to miss. Join healthcare marketing leaders and innovators, November 9-12 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.

Focus On Hospital Websites: Get Proven Tactics to Boost Findability, Engagement, and Conversions

In this new report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, you’ll discover how leading hospitals and health systems around the country optimize their websites to attract patients, improve user experience, and strengthen their digital brand presence.

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Focus on CRM: How Leading Healthcare Organizations Win by Turning Data into Action

In this new report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, you’ll learn how leading hospitals and health systems use CRM tools to acquire new patients, improve patient engagement, optimize communications, and improve health outcomes.

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Proven Strategies to Maximize ROI from Your CRM Investment

Healthcare marketing executives and CRM experts, including leaders from Emory Healthcare, Banner Health, and Lionshare, reveal operational challenges, data governance requirements, and cross-functional collaboration needed to turn CRM investments into measurable patient engagement and ROI. Read on to discover strategies that separate CRM success from failure.

7 Factors to Consider When Evaluating Provider Search Platforms

For marketing leaders in healthcare, the provider search experience isn’t just a digital tool — it’s a reflection of your brand, a driver of patient loyalty, and a key lever for growth. A well-integrated provider search platform can directly impact patient acquisition, retention, and satisfaction scores.

Behind the Best: How Top Health Systems Designed Award-Winning Integrated Campaigns

// By Susan Dubuque // With countless media channels to choose from, shrinking budgets, and growing demands for measurable results, today’s healthcare marketing professionals face increasing challenges in developing and implementing integrated marketing campaigns. Discover how marketing teams at Mount Sinai and the University of Maryland Medical Center built high-impact integrated campaigns — from concept to acclaim.

Turn Data into Demand: Proven Strategies to Drive Net New Patient Growth

Presented July 23, 2025

Your Presenters:

• Matt King, Senior Consultant, Population Intelligence, Definitive Healthcare
• Reed Smith, Senior Vice President and Chief Consumer Officer, Ardent Health
• Matt Gove, Chief Growth Officer, QuickMD

Moderated by:

• Jane Weber Brubaker, Executive Editor, Plain-English Media

You’ll Learn:

• How to grow net new patients while strengthening retention
• Tactics for identifying high-value audiences and prioritizing outreach
• How segmentation enables more efficient use of marketing spend and higher conversion rates
• Strategies for aligning clinical data with marketing insights to personalize the patient journey
• How to use data and market intelligence to uncover growth opportunities

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Reimagining AI in Healthcare Marketing: The Shift from Tool to Thought Partner

AI in healthcare marketing is still in its early innings, but Matt Cyr believes the real impact is just around the corner. In this insightful interview, Cyr shares how forward-thinking teams are already seeing faster content creation, tighter brand consistency, and quicker market research, even if ROI metrics are still catching up.

Turning CRM into a Strategic Engine: Healthcare Leaders Share Candid Lessons on Data, Alignment, and ROI

// By Therese Lockemy, MBA // Healthcare marketing executives and CRM experts, including leaders from Emory Healthcare, Banner Health, and Lionshare, reveal operational challenges, data governance requirements, and cross-functional collaboration needed to turn CRM investments into measurable patient engagement and ROI. Read on to discover strategies that separate CRM success from failure.

How Do You Choose the Right Provider Search Platform for a Seamless Patient Experience?

// By Michael Kinkaid // For marketing leaders in healthcare, the provider search experience isn’t just a digital tool — it’s a reflection of your brand, a driver of patient loyalty, and a key lever for growth. A well-integrated provider search platform can directly impact patient acquisition, retention, and satisfaction scores.

Unlocking Big Data: Practical Uses of AI-Powered Analytics for Smarter Campaign Planning

Marketing is becoming more of a numbers game, and clean, accurate data is key. But getting it all in one place and gleaning insights from it has been an ongoing challenge in healthcare. Here, we explore how an AI-based solution helps marketers skip the line and get answers they need faster.

Turn Data into Demand: Proven Strategies to Drive Net New Patient Growth

Wednesday | July 23, 2025 | 2 p.m. Eastern

Your Presenters:

• Matt King, Senior Consultant, Population Intelligence, Definitive Healthcare
• Reed Smith, Senior Vice President and Chief Consumer Officer, Ardent Health
• Matt Gove, Chief Growth Officer, QuickMD

Moderated by:

• Jane Weber Brubaker, Executive Editor, Plain-English Media

You’ll Learn:

• How to grow net new patients while strengthening retention
• Tactics for identifying high-value audiences and prioritizing outreach
• How segmentation enables more efficient use of marketing spend and higher conversion rates
• Strategies for aligning clinical data with marketing insights to personalize the patient journey
• How to use data and market intelligence to uncover growth opportunities

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10 signs your agency is mismanaging your paid search campaigns

A free white paper, published by Fathom

One of the most common ways we begin supporting hospitals and health systems is by conducting detailed audits of their campaign strategy, structure, and results to uncover opportunities to improve performance and maximize the impact of every dollar in market. And, without fail, we find budget mismanagement.

Our digital advertising specialists have compiled some of the biggest red flags to watch for, the significance of those issues, and the specific actions you can take to remedy them.

We’ve organized these ten warning signs into five categories:

• Campaign Strategy and Structure: Overly General Campaign Structure
• Targeting Fundamentals: Spending Budget Outside Target Geography
• Optimization and Execution: Stagnant Change History Signals Lack of Optimization
• Tracking and Compliance: Non-Compliant Conversion Tracking
• Spend-draining Campaign Defaults: Google Search Partners Enabled

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Closing the Urgency Gap: How Marketers Can Embrace AI as a Thought Partner, Not Just a Tool

// By Jared Johnson // AI in healthcare marketing is still in its early innings, but Matt Cyr believes the real impact is just around the corner. In this insightful interview, Cyr shares how forward-thinking teams are already seeing faster content creation, tighter brand consistency, and quicker market research, even if ROI metrics are still catching up.

Beyond CRM 101: Aligning People, Data, and Strategy for Smarter Engagement

Presented June 4, 2025

Your Presenters:

• Laura Lee Jones, Founder & CEO of LionShare
• Judith Ward, Strategic Health Care Marketing Executive
• Denise Davis, Vice President, Marketing Technology & Operations, Emory Healthcare
• Chris Pace, Marketing Executive

Moderated by:

• Therese Lockemy, Founder and Principal Consultant, Inner Path Digital, L.L.C

Join us as our panelists explore how you can:

• Identify the right CRM use cases, from patient acquisition and retention to reactivation, referral growth, and engagement journey orchestration.
• Break down silos across marketing, IT, and data teams to enable smarter engagement and measurement.
• Ensure CRM strategy reflects marketing goals by partnering effectively with IT, bridging gaps between technical infrastructure and engagement needs.
• Measure what matters by connecting CRM data across channels and understanding true marketing ROI.
• Build a source of truth for data-driven decisions, including more accurate targeting and audience suppression.
• Strengthen data governance to support segmentation, suppression, and system-wide confidence in CRM insights.

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How to Chat with Your Data to Get the Insights You Need Now

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Marketing is becoming more of a numbers game, and clean, accurate data is key. But getting it all in one place and gleaning insights from it has been an ongoing challenge in healthcare. Here, we explore how an AI-based solution helps marketers skip the line and get answers they need faster.

How AI Unlocks Deeper Insights from Patient and Employee Feedback

Healthcare providers constantly seek ways to improve the patient experience, but in many cases the most valuable insights are hidden in plain sight. Press Ganey has made a major investment in AI and NLP to help its clients better understand patient needs. Here, we look at how deeper insights lead to change.

Celebrating Digital Excellence: Submit Your Entries for the 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

The 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards Call for Entries is officially open! Now in their 26th year, the eHealthcare Leadership Awards celebrate excellence in healthcare digital marketing, recognizing standout websites, apps, videos, campaigns, and digital initiatives that drive marketing and business success across the industry. The deadline for entries is June 27, 2025.

The 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards Are Now Open

// By Susan Dubuque // The 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards Call for Entries is officially open! Now in their 26th year, the eHealthcare Leadership Awards celebrate excellence in healthcare digital marketing, recognizing standout websites, apps, videos, campaigns, and digital initiatives that drive marketing and business success across the industry. The deadline for entries is June 27, 2025.

How Press Ganey Uses AI to Make Healthcare More Human

// By Althea Fung // Healthcare providers constantly seek ways to improve the patient experience, but in many cases the most valuable insights are hidden in plain sight. Press Ganey has made a major investment in AI and NLP to help its clients better understand patient needs. Here, we look at how deeper insights lead to change.

When Healthcare Privacy and Marketing Performance Collide: Overcoming a 70% Cost Per Lead Spike

A free white paper, published by Freshpaint

Download this eBook to learn how to stay compliant while keeping marketing effective. Discover strategies to optimize your ad spend, reduce inefficiencies, and regain visibility without compromising privacy.

What You’ll Learn:

• Key healthcare privacy regulations and their impact on marketing
• The value of digital advertising to reach patients and control costs
• How platforms like Google and Facebook use data to improve performance
• Safe ways to restore data flow while maintaining compliance
• Real-world case studies of success

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