AI Hallucinations Are a Growing Risk for Healthcare Brands. Here’s How to Respond.

As artificial intelligence becomes a primary way patients research symptoms, evaluate providers, and choose where to seek care, organizations face a growing challenge: inaccurate answers can put healthcare brands and patient trust at risk. Learn how AI hallucinations occur, why healthcare is uniquely vulnerable, and what organizations can do to reduce risk.

The AI Search Reality Check: What Healthcare Leaders Need to Know, Measure, and Do Next

ROI & Performance Marketing Week Day 2

Presented Sept, 15, 2026

Panelists:

• Tim Shonsey, Vice President of Enterprise Marketing, Intermountain Health
• Josh Squires, Director of AI Search, Amsive Health
• Craig Blake, Healthcare Growth Executive and Industry Speaker, Amsive Health

Moderated by:

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

You’ll learn:

• Understand how AI search is changing the way patients discover and evaluate healthcare.
• Determine where your organization appears, and does not appear, in AI-generated answers.
• Establish an AI visibility baseline and identify meaningful measures of progress.
• Understand where traditional search, website, and attribution metrics still provide value and where gaps are emerging.
• Connect AI visibility and patient intent to acquisition, growth, and broader business performance.
• Prioritize investment while measurement models and attribution continue to evolve.
• Build alignment and accountability across marketing, content, technology, analytics, and other key stakeholders.
• Reassess and update your marketing priorities as AI search continues to develop.

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From Cost Center to Growth Engine: How CFOs and CMOs Agree on Marketing ROI

ROI & Performance Marketing Week Day 1 Opening Keynote

Presented September 14, 2026

Panelists:

• Opeyemi Oluwole, SVP, Chief Marketing Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health
• Jeremy Rogers, Vice President of Marketing and Digital Transformation, Beacon Health System
• Ray Mina, CEO, Freshpaint

Moderated by:

• Jane Weber Brubaker, Executive Editor, Plain-English Health Care

You’ll learn:

• How marketing and finance teams are learning to speak the same language and align around the metrics that matter most.
• How to establish verifiable marketing ROI.
• How leading healthcare organizations move beyond channel metrics toward enterprise-wide accountability.
• How privacy-first data strategies enable better measurement and stronger executive decision-making.
• Where healthcare marketing measurement is headed, and what marketing leaders should prioritize over the next 12-24 months.

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Focus on Digital Front Door: Many Access Points, One Connected Patient Experience

The digital front door is no longer a single access point. As patients move between health system websites, search, social media, and other digital touchpoints, marketers need to create connected experiences that make it easier for consumers to find care. In this report, you’ll learn how leading health systems are rethinking the digital front door.

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AI Hallucinations in Healthcare: The Hidden Risk to Your Brand, Compliance, and Patient Trust

// By Jared Johnson // As artificial intelligence becomes a primary way patients research symptoms, evaluate providers, and choose where to seek care, organizations face a growing challenge: inaccurate answers can put healthcare brands and patient trust at risk. Learn how AI hallucinations occur, why healthcare is uniquely vulnerable, and what organizations can do to reduce risk.

Aligning CRM with Marketing Strategy: Building Stronger Partnerships and Better Results

Presented August 26, 2026

Panelists:

• Orla Seidel, Director, CRM & Digital Marketing, Atlantic Health
• Rachel M. Totaro, MBA, Director, Digital Strategy, FMOL Health
• Jerry Hobbs, President and co-founder, Prairie Dog
• Laura Lee Jones, Founder and CEO, LionShare

Moderated by:

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

Join us as our panelists explore how you can:

• Connect CRM priorities to broader marketing, brand, growth, and patient engagement goals.
• Create shared goals across marketing, CRM, digital, data, IT, operations, and clinical teams.
• Clarify roles, responsibilities, decision-making, and workflows across teams.
• Identify high-value CRM use cases, including patient acquisition, retention, reactivation, audience profiling, and service line growth.
• Use CRM insights to better understand patient populations, market opportunities, and campaign audiences.

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Where Digital Experience Meets Patient Expectations

A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends member roundtable featuring winners from the 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

Presented August 4, 2026

Panelists:

• Ben Dillon, CEO, Geonetric
• Seth Carnes, senior digital marketing specialist, Bryan Health
• Lissa Richards, senior director, digital experience, WellSpan Health

Moderator:

• Susan Dubuque, Contributing Editor, eHealthcare Strategy & Trends and Co-Chair, 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

Here are some of the topics that will be covered:

• Key drivers of award-winning digital patient experiences
• Practical strategies that moved the needle
• Common challenges and how leaders overcame them
• What’s next for digital patient experience

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ROI & Performance Marketing Week

A virtual summit for healthcare marketers and digital strategists from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends

September 14-18, 2026

Hospital and health system marketing leaders must prove measurable ROI.

In today’s financially challenging environment, leaders in healthcare organizations scrutinize budgets and demand evidence that marketing investments drive profitability and growth.

The ROI & Performance Marketing Week will deliver a week of focused, one-hour sessions presenting strategies for proving the measurable impact of marketing and advertising. From brand awareness campaigns and physician referral strategies to targeted digital outreach, healthcare marketing experts will show how they connect spend with return, and how they position themselves as strategic partners at the leadership table.

Join us for a full week of programming for marketing and digital leaders at hospitals, health systems, and other healthcare provider organizations.

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Still Flying Blind? How Privacy can Power Performance for Healthcare Marketing

Presented July 15, 2026

A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends webinar with insights from Ours Privacy

Your Presenters:

• Jessica Holton, CEO and Co-Founder, Ours Privacy
• Jonathan Papp, Senior Director of Marketing, WelbeHealth

Moderated by:

• Kyle Hardner, Contributing Writer, Plain English Health Care

You’ll learn:

• What marketers are saying about the gap between compliance confidence and actual capabilities.
• How to move toward tracking the full patient journey compliantly, and where most marketers get stuck.
• How one health company navigated the post-OCR environment and rebuilt its martech stack.
• Practical next steps for moving from a patchwork of tools to a more unified approach.
• The future of marketing compliance in the era of AI.

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How UC Davis Health Used Documentary Storytelling to Bring a Rare Disease Journey to Life

A long-form documentary follows a family’s journey across the world in search of lifesaving treatment, while shedding light on a terminal disease and an innovative therapy that could change its course. Discover how long-form video tells stories that keep viewers engaged from beginning to end.

Digital Showcase: UC Davis Health’s “John John’s Journey”

// By Susan Dubuque // A long-form documentary follows a family’s journey across the world in search of lifesaving treatment, while shedding light on a terminal disease and an innovative therapy that could change its course. Discover how long-form video tells stories that keep viewers engaged from beginning to end.

Building A Durable AI Strategy for Health Systems

AI in Healthcare Marketing June 2026 Day 4 Closing Keynote

Presented June 18, 2026 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

• Margo Schneider, Assistant Vice President, Digital Strategy & Operations, UW Medicine
• Ryan Younger, Vice President of Marketing, Virtua Health
• Peter Isaacson, Chief Marketing Officer, Invoca

Moderated by:

• Jane Weber Brubaker, Executive Editor, Plain-English Health Care

What you’ll learn:

• How to link AI initiatives to specific growth, access, and experience goals your C suite already cares about.
• What an AI-enabled consumer experience may look like across websites, search, content, access, and patient communications.
• How to balance AI-driven efficiency with preserving empathy, brand voice, and trusted clinician expertise in all channels.
• How to prepare teams, workflows, and success metrics for a future in which AI is simply part of how work gets done.
• Where healthcare marketing and digital leaders should focus next to create measurable value from AI.

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Beyond the Dashboard: Building an AI-Native Attribution Stack for Healthcare

AI in Healthcare Marketing June 2026 Day 4 Session 1

Presented June 18, 2026 at 1 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

• Matt Lee, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Strategy Collective
• Lina Soliman, Director of Omni-Channel Strategy, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
• Kelsey Linden, VP, Commercial Excellence, Shore Capital Partners

Moderated by:

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

What you’ll learn:

• How to move beyond surface-level dashboards toward more meaningful measurement
• Where traditional attribution breaks down in healthcare
• Real-world examples of AI-driven attribution and measurement running in healthcare organizations today
• How AI can help teams connect data, identify patterns, and improve reporting
• What marketing leaders need to explain performance to finance and executive teams How to think about owned measurement models, governance, and accountability
• How to build a more practical path to proving marketing’s impact on growth and patient engagement

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AI Hallucinations in Healthcare: The Hidden Risk to Your Brand, Compliance, and Patient Trust

AI in Healthcare Marketing June 2026 Day 3 Session 2

Presented June 17, 2026 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

• Stewart Gandolf, CEO, Healthcare Success
• Brandon Schakola, Senior Director, Digital Services, Healthcare Success
• Pansy Lee, Head of Product, inlets.ai
• John Davey, Vice President Marketing Technology, Mount Sinai Health System

Moderated by:

• Jared Johnson, Host, Healthcare Rap Podcast, and eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Editorial Advisory Board Member

You’ll learn how to:

• Understand the causes and implications of AI hallucinations in healthcare, including risks to brand reputation, compliance, and patient trust
• Identify where and how AI may be misrepresenting your organization using emerging monitoring tools and competitive visibility analysis
• Apply practical strategies to reduce hallucinations, improve AI-driven search visibility, and strengthen brand safety in an evolving digital landscape

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Real Work, Real Results: An AI Delivery Lab

AI in Healthcare Marketing June 2026 Day 3 Session 1

Presented June 17, 2026 at 1 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

• Kelly LaBarre, Senior Digital Marketing Manager, Connecticut Children’s
• Matthew Carlson, Senior Director User Experience Design, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
• JC Chakravarty, VP of Strategy and Design, Modea

Moderated by:

• Char Wilson, Principal Consultant, Char Wilson Consulting

You’ll learn how to:

• How to use rapid prototyping and vibe coding to accelerate healthcare website development
• How to build and optimize digital content for AEO and GEO performance
• What Modea’s healthcare digital maturity survey reveals about AI investment levels, consumer perception, and ROI benchmarks
• What it takes to make a healthcare website truly discoverable across AI-powered search and answer engines
• and more.

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AI in the Exam Room: Managing Patient Expectations

AI in Healthcare Marketing June 2026 Day 2 Session 2

Presented June 16, 2026 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

• Amanda Reimann, Senior Marketing Manager, Clinical Services University of Iowa Health Care
• Morgan Lees, Director of Client Experience, Unlock Health

Moderated by:

• Wendy Margolin, Contributing Writer, Plain-English Health Care

Learn how consumers across different segments want healthcare organizations to communicate about the role of AI in diagnosis, decision support, and the patient experience — and what builds confidence, transparency, and comfort as AI becomes a more visible part of care delivery.

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Stop chasing AI “shoulds”: a focus-first approach for health system marketers

AI in Healthcare Marketing June 2026 Day 2 Session 1

Presented June 16, 2026 at 1 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

• Luke Farkas, VP of Innovation & AI, Unlock Health
• Daniel Fell, Health Systems Practice Lead, Unlock Health and eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Editorial Advisory Board Member
• Joe McMahon, Vice President, Northwell Health’s Enterprise Change Management team
• Anne Martino, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Children’s Wisconsin

Moderated by:

• Wendy Margolin, Contributing Writer, Plain-English Health Care

After this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain why AI progress is primarily a change-management challenge in hospital marketing and identify the common failure mode of “everything, all at once” prioritization.
• Diagnose their organization’s default AI orientation (what it tends to prioritize and protect) and understand why two health systems can make opposite AI decisions and both be right.
• Assess their team’s AI fluency and translate it into a focused 90-day plan, including what to do now, what to postpone, and what guardrails are required for adoption.

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When AI Becomes How Work Gets Done

AI in Healthcare Marketing June 2026 Day 1 Opening Keynote 

Presented June 15, 2026

Panelists:

• Cristal Woodley, VP, Marketing and Communications, Renown Health
• Taylor Pressler, MPH, MS, Sr. Director of Enterprise Analytics, Renown Health
• Gregg Johnson, CEO, Invoca
• Julia Sorensen, Vice President, Marketing – Market Research and Consumer Insights, Mass General Brigham

Moderated by:

• Jane Weber Brubaker, Executive Editor, Plain-English Health Care

What you’ll learn:

• How leaders are re‑architecting marketing and digital workflows with AI as the default path.
• Examples of a real AI-driven workflow overhaul, from intake to output to governance that you can adapt for your own teams.
• New operating roles and how they plug into existing teams and structures.
• Guardrails that let non‑technical staff build useful agents without creating compliance and security headaches.
• How to measure “AI as normal work” — from throughput gains on content and campaigns to better access, engagement, and conversion.

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Why Site Search May Be Costing Your Health System Thousands of Patients Each Week

Digital experience can either drive loyalty or drive patients away. Leaders from Cleveland Clinic, Renown Health, MDRG, and SearchStax weigh in on findings from recent research. Read on to learn from these experts how you can create digital experiences that strengthen your relationship with patients and consumers.

Join the Conversation: AI in Healthcare Marketing Week Offers a Practical Roadmap for the AI-Enabled Future

It’s not too late to sign up for AI in Healthcare Marketing Week, eHealthcare Strategy & Trends’ new virtual summit. We offer it at no charge to employees of healthcare provider organizations. Don’t miss this opportunity to hone your AI knowledge and learn how you can bring greater value to your organization.

AI in Healthcare Marketing Virtual Summit Is Back Next Week!

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // It’s not too late to sign up for AI in Healthcare Marketing Week, eHealthcare Strategy & Trends’ new virtual summit. We offer it at no charge to employees of healthcare provider organizations. Don’t miss this opportunity to hone your AI knowledge and learn how you can bring greater value to your organization.

Does Your Health System’s Website Build Patient Trust? Or Break It?

// By Char Wilson // Digital experience can either drive loyalty or drive patients away. Leaders from Cleveland Clinic, Renown Health, MDRG, and SearchStax weigh in on findings from recent research. Read on to learn from these experts how you can create digital experiences that strengthen your relationship with patients and consumers.

“People Want to Interact With People”: What to Consider When Planning Your Social Media Strategy

McKenzie Davis works closely with Baptist Health Central Alabama to share stories of people caring for people. Read on to hear her take on how social media has changed, why and where it makes sense to invest in paid advertising on social media, and which platforms to choose.

What Award-Winning Healthcare Podcasts Get Right

Award-winning marketers from Southeast Georgia Health System, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the National Spine Health Foundation share how they build podcasts around audience needs, extend reach through integrated promotion, and use storytelling to strengthen connection and trust.