Virtual Roundtable: Building Your Digital Front Door

The COVID-19 pandemic and the rapidly changing competitive environment are making the consumer and patient digital experience a higher priority for healthcare marketers than ever before. This webinar will provide important insights and tips you need to be ready to play a key role in improving your digital front door.

A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends webinar for healthcare marketers and digital strategists.

Panelists:

• Kendra Calhoun, Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing & Communications, Avera Health
• Ed Rafalski, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, BayCare Health System
• Ben Dillon, Chief Strategy Officer, Geonetric

Watch this webinar and you’ll learn:

• Benchmark where your organization is today
• Set a vision for future improvement based on digital experience roadmaps
• Get leadership and organizational buy-in for digital experience initiatives
• Overcome roadblocks and breakdown operational silos
• Determine pilot initiatives and build on early wins
• Establish and measure key indicators for success
• Put key takeaways to work at your organization

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When Zero Is More Than One

// By Jim Samuel // Taking advantage of Google’s Position Zero, or featured snippets, can be an effective way to enhance your brand and drive traffic to your website, particularly for mobile users. While it can be challenging to attain this coveted place in Google’s search results, with planning and effort, it is possible to Read More

Making Every Dollar Count When Budgets Are Limited

Connecticut is a small state with a large number of healthcare facilities to choose from — and now even drug stores turned health hubs are competing for the same patients. “There’s a lot of noise out there,” says Cathie Cannon, assistant vice president of health communications at UConn Health. “Consumers have a lot of options Read More

What Are the Top Industry Priorities for 2022?

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

Virgin Pulse Acquires Welltok To Serve More Clients Across the Healthcare Spectrum

In recent years, the healthcare industry has been moving away from its traditional focus on episodic care toward wellness, prevention, and population health. The recent acquisition of Welltok by Virgin Pulse in October 2021 underscores that this movement is coming from multiple directions. Welltok and Virgin Pulse have primarily focused on the employer and payer Read More

UConn Health Drives Service Line Volume in a Competitive Market with a Limited Budget

// By Jane Weber Brubaker //  Connecticut is a small state with a large number of healthcare facilities to choose from — and now even drug stores turned health hubs are competing for the same patients. “There’s a lot of noise out there,” says Cathie Cannon, assistant vice president of health communications at UConn Health. Read More

Who Gets a Seat at the Healthcare Table in 2022?

// 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

Learn How Podcasts Can Be a Primary Content-Generation Tool

Versatile podcasts can stand on their own as a popular source of content, but they are also a great way to stoke the content-generation engine, especially for healthcare communications and marketing programs. “It all starts with a podcast,” says Bill Klaproth, director of marketing and production for DoctorPodcasting by RadioMD. Klaproth, who provides podcast services Read More

Virgin Pulse Acquires Welltok: Q&A with Christopher Michalak, CEO

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // In recent years, the healthcare industry has been moving away from its traditional focus on episodic care toward wellness, prevention, and population health. The recent acquisition of Welltok by Virgin Pulse in October 2021 underscores that this movement is coming from multiple directions. Welltok and Virgin Pulse have primarily Read More

Overcoming Pandemic-Related Team Communications Challenges

“Hospital and health system marketers and digital teams can stand tall at the end of 2021 and look back at a year in which they triumphed over some of their greatest challenges yet,” writes Jared Johnson of the Healthcare Rap podcast; he is also a member of the eHST Editorial Advisory Board.  Here’s an excerpt Read More

Podcasts: A Key to Content Creation

// By Wendy Stark Healy // Podcasts are a win-win. They provide great information to the community, engage potential patients, and help organizations market their services with versatile content that can be reused. Versatile podcasts can stand on their own as a popular source of content, but they are also a great way to stoke Read More

Get Your Digital Strategy Optimized

“As we put the finishing touches on our annual Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey, I always look for themes that will define the industry in the coming year,” says Ben Dillon of Geonetric. “This year, one theme is surfacing again and again: digital strategy and the level of investment and focus placed on it by Read More

Coming Together for Patients: 2021 Year in Review

// By Jared Johnson // Hospital and health system marketers and digital teams can stand tall at the end of 2021 and look back at a year in which they triumphed over some of their greatest challenges yet. When considering everything that the industry went through and learned in 2021, it was a year that Read More

The End of the Third-Party Data Era Is Coming Soon

If you use third-party data for your marketing, it’s time for you to start getting ready to do something different. That’s because new privacy laws around the world, as well as new measures from Apple and Google, will soon make using third-party data a thing of the past. Coming changes will give consumers more control Read More

Assess How You’re Collecting and Using Your Healthcare Data

“From digital data streams to artificial intelligence and predictive analytics, the prevalence and use of marketing data is growing exponentially,” says Daniel Fell of Optum. “According to a recent State of Marketing report from Salesforce, the median number of data sources used by marketers grew 50 percent from 2019 to 2021. And the report showed Read More

How To Optimize the 3 R’s: Right Care, Right Time, Right Setting

If your health system participates in value-based contracting, you have a vested interest in making sure you’re optimizing the three R’s: right care, right time, right setting. Easier said than done. So what is the secret to orchestrating all the variables that go into a patient’s decision to get care, choose a provider, and make Read More

Build a Better Healthcare Podcast

Learn from the Pros how to Create, Promote, and Distribute Your Podcast for Maximum Reach to Consumer, Peer, and Internal Audiences

Your Presenters:
Ashley Schroeder, Events and Marketing Specialist, Bryan Health
Bill Klaproth, Director of Marketing and Production, DoctorPodcasting by RadioMD

Watch this webinar and you’ll learn:

• How you can leverage this powerful medium to reach consumer, peer, and internal audiences
• How to select the best topics for your audience and formulate questions
• How to measure engagement and success
• How to promote your healthcare podcast for maximum exposure
• How Bryan Health uses podcasts to cut through and reach consumers with important health topics and messages.

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Reactivate Existing Patients to Boost Revenue

“Patient churn is an expected part of any provider’s practice,” notes Shawn McKee of WebPT. “In fact, only 30 percent of physical therapy patients make it to the end of their treatment program before dropping out. As a result, practices may lose an average of $150,000 a year from patient dropout alone. “While the numbers Read More

The Number-One Takeaway from the Latest Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey: Digital Strategy Is the Path Forward

// By Ben Dillon // As we put the finishing touches on our annual Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey, I always look for themes that will define the industry in the coming year. This year, one theme is surfacing again and again: digital strategy and the level of investment and focus placed on it by Read More

Third-Party Cookie Deprecation: What You Should Do to Get Ready

// By Jim Samuel // Third-party cookies may have received a reprieve, but that only gives you more time to prepare for their eventual demise. Whether it’s because of Apple’s security updates to its email app, Google’s end to support for cookies, or the new privacy laws in many states and countries, organizations that rely Read More

A Checklist for Achieving Data-Driven Marketing in Your Healthcare Organization

// By Daniel Fell // From digital data streams to artificial intelligence and predictive analytics, the prevalence and use of marketing data is growing exponentially. According to a recent State of Marketing report from Salesforce, the median number of data sources used by marketers grew 50 percent from 2019 to 2021. And the report showed Read More

How to Shift from Managing Complexity to Creating Value

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // If your health system participates in value-based contracting, you have a vested interest in making sure you’re optimizing the three R’s: right care, right time, right setting. Easier said than done. So what is the secret to orchestrating all the variables that go into a patient’s decision to get Read More

Geisinger’s Strategy? Focus on Quality Communication Rather Than What Google Is Doing

When you still remember what someone said in a webinar a year ago, you know it’s someone you’d like to hear more from. Sarah Sommer, vice president of digital engagement at Geisinger, was a panelist in our October 2020 webinar, “How to Build the Case for Increasing Your Digital Marketing Budget in 2021.” It was Read More

Keep Them Coming Back for More: Top 4 Ways to Re-engage Patients

// By Shawn McKee // Does your practice have a plan to reactivate patients? Sometimes all it takes is the right nudge to get patients to come back. It’s worth a lot to your practice when they do. Patient churn is an expected part of any provider’s practice. In fact, only 30 percent of physical Read More

What’s the Best Way to Measure Conversions?

Healthcare marketers ask a common and essential question when launching campaigns or important projects: “What does success look like?” Marketing success is typically measured in converted leads and improved loyalty. But nurturing potential customers in hopes that they will become consumers can be challenging. One marketing leader decided to study the process of lead conversion. Read More