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2026 eHealthcare Leadership Award Winners Announced

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// By Susan Dubuque // More than 200 organizations were honored for outstanding work across the digital healthcare spectrum at the 2026 eHealthcare Leadership Awards, announced October 25, 2026, during an awards presentation at the Healthcare Interactive Conference (HCIC). Read on for a detailed rundown of the 2026 Awards and view highlights of the winning entries.

9 Ways to Make Healthcare Website Error Messages More Helpful and Human

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Are the error messages, search results, and form instructions on your website written to convey humanity and caring? Or do they feel more like the time’s up buzzer on Jeopardy? Read on for nine tips to make often-overlooked error messages more human, because the right wording is a form of caring.

What Is Your Website’s Bedside Manner?

// By Kevin Kashou // Are the error messages, search results, and form instructions on your website written to convey humanity and caring? Or do they feel more like the time’s up buzzer on Jeopardy? Read on for nine tips to make often-overlooked error messages more human, because the right wording is a form of caring.

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

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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.

How Billings Clinic Makes Location Information Easier for Patients and AI to Find

Ben Dillon

The Billings Clinic location strategy webinar generated more questions than the panel could address live. In this follow-up, leaders from Billings Clinic and Geonetric share insights on what deserves a location profile, how to manage data across a growing health system, and how website structure can support search and AI discovery.

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

Brandon Schakola

// 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.

Location Strategy Q&A: Billings Clinic on Governance, Listings, and AI Discovery, Pt. 2

Mandi Graham

// By Therese Lockemy, MBA // The Billings Clinic location strategy webinar generated more questions than the panel could address live. In this follow-up, leaders from Billings Clinic and Geonetric share insights on what deserves a location profile, how to manage data across a growing health system, and how website structure can support search and AI discovery.

Focus on CRM: How Health Systems Build an Enterprise Strategy for Patient Engagement that Drives Measurable Business Impact

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CRM is becoming an enterprise capability that connects marketing strategy with patient needs. In this new report, we explore how health systems use CRM to support the patient journey. You’ll find valuable insights that will help you build a more connected CRM strategy that strengthens patient engagement and delivers strategic benefit for your organization.

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How AdventHealth Personalizes the Digital Experience Without Compromising Privacy

Carolina Anthony

Navigate to the AdventHealth website for the first time and you’ll find images and content that apply to any healthcare consumer. But the moment you click on a specific service line or blog, that experience starts to change. Learn how AdventHealth uses CRM to personalize the consumer journey without compromising HIPAA regulations.

From MarTech Sprawl to Strategy: How Atlantic Health and UNC Health Build a Connected Ecosystem

Jamie Mermelstein

Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in marketing technology, yet many marketing teams still struggle with disconnected systems, fragmented data, and growing pressure to demonstrate business value. Learn how healthcare organizations connect existing technology, data, and teams to provide the foundation for stronger governance, better patient experiences, and more meaningful measurement.

CRM and the Competitive Advantage of Privacy-First Personalization

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// By Wendy Margolin // Navigate to the AdventHealth website for the first time and you’ll find images and content that apply to any healthcare consumer. But the moment you click on a specific service line or blog, that experience starts to change. Learn how AdventHealth uses CRM to personalize the consumer journey without compromising HIPAA regulations.

Where Digital Experience Meets Patient Expectations

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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Building a Better Healthcare MarTech Ecosystem: How Healthcare Teams Move Beyond Stack Sprawl

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// By Therese Lockemy, MBA // Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in marketing technology, yet many marketing teams still struggle with disconnected systems, fragmented data, and growing pressure to demonstrate business value. Learn how healthcare organizations connect existing technology, data, and teams to provide the foundation for stronger governance, better patient experiences, and more meaningful measurement.

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 Billings Clinic Built a Smarter Location Strategy for Search, AI, and Patient Access

Ben Dillon

As health systems expand through partnerships, acquisitions, and regional growth, maintaining accurate and useful location information becomes increasingly difficult. Here, we look at how Billings Clinic moved from fragmented location content to a more scalable, patient-centered model, and why that work now matters for access, search visibility, and AI-enabled discovery.

Location Strategy Is Access Strategy: How Billings Clinic Improved Findability

Mandi Graham

// By Therese Lockemy, MBA // As health systems expand through partnerships, acquisitions, and regional growth, maintaining accurate and useful location information becomes increasingly difficult. Here, we look at how Billings Clinic moved from fragmented location content to a more scalable, patient-centered model, and why that work now matters for access, search visibility, and AI-enabled discovery.

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