Jared Johnson

Jared Johnson

Jared Johnson

Senior Marketing Advisor & Content Producer
Shift Forward Health

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Jared has spent 20+ years supporting healthcare brands on audio and video thought leadership, social media, and content production. He is the former Chief Marketing Officer at Praia Health and has served as a senior digital strategist for some of the top healthcare, MedTech and medical device brands in the country, including St. Jude Medical, W. L. Gore, and Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Jared is a rapping keynote speaker, host of the award-winning Healthcare Rap Podcast, winner of the Medigy HITMC 2021 Marketer of the Year Award, and author of two books, Marketing Forward and Connect the Docs.

Jared has contributed his expertise to the articles listed below.

AI Is Changing Search—But It’s Making Hospital Websites More Critical, Not Less

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AI search and changing consumer behaviors may be reducing website traffic, but healthcare leaders say hospital websites are becoming more important, not less. Here, digital leaders from UCI Health, HonorHealth, and Symetris share how websites are evolving into high-intent, action-driving hubs powered by structured data, smarter workflows, and measurable ROI.

Why Hospital Websites Are Becoming More Important in the Age of AI Search

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// By Jared Johnson // AI search and changing consumer behaviors may be reducing website traffic, but healthcare leaders say hospital websites are becoming more important, not less. Here, digital leaders from UCI Health, HonorHealth, and Symetris share how websites are evolving into high-intent, action-driving hubs powered by structured data, smarter workflows, and measurable ROI.

Hospital Websites Aren’t Dead, They’re Evolving: Practical Wins & ROI from the Past Year

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Presented February 11, 2026 

Your Presenters:

  • Brad Muncs, CEO, Symetris
  • Seth Kaplan, Director of Marketing, Digital and CX, HonorHealth
  • Tara Nooteboom, Director of Consumer Digital Strategy, UCI Health

Moderated by:

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

After attending, you’ll be able to:

  • Reframe your website strategy from redesign cycles to an ongoing “website-as-a-product” operating model.
  • Identify and prioritize high-impact improvements you can ship incrementally (without waiting 12-18 months for a redesign).
  • Build a clearer ROI narrative for leadership by connecting web work to outcomes (access, conversion, patient acquisition, efficiency).
  • Navigate stakeholder overload with governance approaches that reduce bottlenecks and align teams around measurable goals.
  • Leave with examples and language you can use to align marketing, digital, and operational partners when resources are tight.

 

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Pamela Landis Joins Editorial Advisory Board of eHealthcare Strategy & Trends

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I’m pleased to announce that Pamela Landis has joined the eHST Editorial Advisory Board. Pamela is senior vice president of digital engagement at Hackensack Meridian Health, a $9 billion health network in New Jersey. She leads a team responsible for making access to and management of healthcare easier for patients, consumers, providers, and team members.

The Healthcare Experience Patients Actually Want: A Roadmap to Digital Transformation

Brian Carlson

Patients today want more. They want digital experiences that are fast, easy, and personalized. If your healthcare organization doesn’t keep up, it’s time for a serious digital makeover. Here’s how to create a roadmap that boosts patient loyalty, reduces friction, and makes your organization feel like the user-friendly apps patients like using.

Building Healthcare Experiences Patients Love

Jennifer Carron

// By Elaine Christie // Patients today want more. They want digital experiences that are fast, easy, and personalized. If your healthcare organization doesn’t keep up, it’s time for a serious digital makeover. Here’s how to create a roadmap that boosts patient loyalty, reduces friction, and makes your organization feel like the user-friendly apps patients like using.

How to Build Your Healthcare Consumer Experience Roadmap — for 2025 and Beyond

Praia Health Speakers

Your Presenters:

  • Jennifer Carron Passon, CPXP, MSOM, Patient Experience Officer, BJC HealthCare
  • Brian Carlson, VP of Patient Experience, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Justin Dearborn, Founder and CEO, Praia Health

Moderated by:

  • Jared Johnson, Chief Marketing Officer at Praia Health and eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Editorial Advisory Board Member

You’ll learn:

  • How to create or update your organization’s consumer experience strategy based on insights from forward-thinking institutions.
  • Effective change management strategies to accelerate and gain buy-in for consumer experience initiatives
  • How marketing leaders effectively collaborate with others who have consumer experience responsibilities without derailing other priorities and investments.
  • How to evaluate new digital platforms and the possibilities that they open for connecting consumer experiences beyond the clinical encounter.

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Provider Data Management: An Essential Key to Better Patient Experience

Jeff-Stewart

// By Jared Johnson // Provider data management is critical in enhancing the patient experience, but it takes the right strategy and technologies to execute successfully. Discover best practices for implementing effective provider data management strategies and learn how these insights empower patients with accurate information and improved access to care.

Best Healthcare Podcast: Who Won, and Why?

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Find out how top healthcare organizations use podcasts to educate, inspire, and connect with clinicians, patients, and community members. // By Jared Johnson // Each year, the eHealthcare Leadership Awards recognizes excellence in healthcare digital marketing. The 2023 awards ceremony was held in November at HCIC in Los Angeles, and throughout this year, we’ll showcase Read More

Enhancing Patient Experience with Effective Provider Data Management Strategies

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Your Presenters:

  • Jeff Stewart, VP of Strategic Marketing, CHRISTUS Health
  • Val Lopez, Assistant Vice President, Digital Marketing and Technology, Baptist Health
  • Jessica West, Director, Content & Media, Piedmont
  • Keir Bradshaw, EVP, Solution Consultant, MERGE

You’ll learn:

  • Insights into how precise provider data impacts patient trust and the overall efficiency of healthcare delivery systems.
  • How innovative technologies and systems can assist in the effective management and maintenance of provider data to ensure compliance and enhance patient care.
  • Best practices for implementing a robust provider data management strategy that can directly improve the patient experience.

And much much more!

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9 Pitfalls of Digital Advertising

Jared Johnson

The opportunities of digital advertising are practically limitless, but it takes a disciplined approach to strategy to make the most of it. Who isn’t a fan of digital advertising? Using online channels to reach your target audience is a fundamental part of most marketing programs; it just makes sense given the amount of time consumers Read More

9 Digital Advertising Pitfalls: Ignore Them at Your Peril

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The opportunities of digital advertising are practically limitless, but it takes a disciplined approach to strategy to make the most of it. // By Dan Dunlop and Jared Johnson // Who isn’t a fan of digital advertising? Using online channels to reach your target audience is a fundamental part of most marketing programs; it just Read More

Practical Applications of AI in Healthcare Marketing

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A healthcare marketing executive says, “AI has allowed for efficiencies and sustainability not only for our department, but for the whole organization.” // By Jared Johnson // While there is a lot of noise and hype around AI, healthcare marketers see the benefits of taking a practical approach. Real-world examples can inspire us and showcase Read More

Where Healthcare CRM Is Headed in 2023 and Beyond

Seth Kaplan

// By Jared Johnson // As CRM has matured, expectations have changed. Digital leaders at HonorHealth discuss the challenges and opportunities, and the importance of close collaboration between strategy and operations to help internal clients achieve success. Marketers at hospitals and health systems have spent the better part of a decade building the business case Read More

2023 Forecast: 7 Trends Shaping the Coming Year

Jared Johnson

// By Jared Johnson // What industry experts say, and how digital marketers can rise to the occasion. Hospital and health system digital marketing teams will face significant headwinds in 2023, but they will have many opportunities to rise to the occasion as they have done many times in the past. As their institutions face Read More

Where Healthcare CRM is Headed in 2023 and Beyond

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

Panelists:

  • Seth Kaplan, Director, Marketing & Customer Engagement, HonorHealth
  • Craig Kartchner, AVP of Marketing & Customer Experience, HonorHealth
  • Daniel Quinn, VP of Business Strategy & Analytics, Lionshare

Moderated by:

  • Jared Johnson, Founder and Podcast Producer, Shift Forward Health and member of the eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Editorial Advisory Board

Watch this webinar and you’ll learn:

  • How buyer decisions for CRM have changed
  • How to evaluate platforms now that there are more choices on the market than ever before
  • How strategy and operations work together to get the most out of a CRM investment
  • How vendors see their platforms evolving over the next 1-2 years
  • How to manage expectations for CRM now that healthcare organizations are facing historically challenging financial pressures

And much more!

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Healthcare CRM: Leverage Your Existing Data to Drive Patient Activation

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In healthcare, CRM is often referred to as the software itself — as a noun — versus the activity of managing customers — a verb. In some cases, it’s a checkbox for a technology neither mapped to organizational goals nor mapped to driving metrics that matter to the health system. Innovative health systems have started Read More

CRM Is a Verb, Not a Noun

Alan Tam

Ask the Expert, with Alan Tam, Vice President of Marketing, Actium Health // By Jared Johnson // This month’s featured expert believes that CRM implementations in healthcare should deliver on business metrics that matter — revenue growth, cost reduction, patient outcomes, and ROI. In healthcare, CRM is often referred to as the software itself — Read More

Overcoming Pandemic-Related Team Communications Challenges

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“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

Coming Together for Patients: 2021 Year in Review

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// 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

What Are the Top Digital Priorities as We Move Out of the Pandemic?

Ben Dillon Geonetric

We’re fortunate at eHealthcare Strategy & Trends to have a talented and dedicated group of advisors with diverse backgrounds and experience — senior executives from leading healthcare organizations, digital agencies, and consulting groups. So when we wanted to get a broad perspective on where things are likely to go as we move out of the Read More

As we come out of the pandemic, what are the top digital priorities for healthcare organizations as they get back to business?

John Halamka

Ask the Expert, with the eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Editorial Advisory Board // By Jane Weber Brubaker // We’re fortunate at eHealthcare Strategy & Trends to have a talented and dedicated group of advisors with diverse backgrounds and experience — senior executives from leading healthcare organizations, digital agencies, and consulting groups. So when we wanted Read More

Banner Health Shifts to Consumer-First Zero-Click Strategy

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2020 marked the end of a decade-long period in which MarTech teams focused their time on learning the rules of engagement for channels such as social media, mobile apps, and responsive websites. But a single platform or tool doesn’t meet complex consumer needs. Hospitals and health systems won’t be prepared to meet the changing needs Read More

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