Transforming Healthcare Through Digital Innovation: Lessons from Award-Winning Leaders

Presented March 11, 2025

Panelists:

• Mona Baset, Vice President of Digital Services, Intermountain Health
• Andrew Snyder, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Orlando Health

Moderator:

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

What you will learn:

• How to build organizational readiness for digital transformation.
• Strategies to gain and sustain executive support.
• A framework for prioritizing digital initiatives.
• Tactics to enhance engagement through omnichannel communications.
• Tools that improve staff connection and alignment.
• Ways to leverage AI & automation.
• Real-world examples of efficiency and patient impact.
• Essential KPIs to track and optimize digital strategies.
• What’s next in healthcare marketing and digital engagement?

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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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Unlocking ROI in Healthcare: Bridging the Gap Between Appointment Data & Ad Campaigns

A free white paper, published by Freshpaint

Download this eBook to learn:

• How healthcare marketers can achieve the same level of insight and campaign optimization as leading e-commerce brands—all while staying compliant with privacy regulations like HIPAA.
• Strategies for calculating and leveraging true CAC and ROI for smarter, service-line-specific decisions.
• Proven approaches to demonstrate ROI to leadership and make a strong case for greater marketing investment.

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CRM: How to Optimize Your Tech Stack to Attract and Retain Patients

Your Presenters:

• Mike Sonnentag, Senior Service Line Marketing Strategist, Virtua Health
• Seth Kaplan, Director, Marketing and Customer Engagement, HonorHealth
• Ross Therrien, Enterprise Account Executive (Healthcare), LeadSquared

Moderated by:

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

You’ll learn:

• Why an EHR system alone may not be enough
• How Virtua Health uses the CRM to uncover opportunities for service line growth
• How HonorHealth’s CRM team reaches out to internal clients as strategic partners
• How integrated systems enable data sharing and improve care coordination
• How you can use CRM solutions to manage patient and prospect relationships across multiple touchpoints.

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Healthcare Marketing Shifts Focus to Consumer Experience and ROI, Survey Shows

The Digital Healthcare Marketing Trends Survey, now in its 12^th Edition, is an industry litmus test that reveals the challenges and opportunities for growth and transformation in provider organizations of all sizes. Discover major themes from the research — positive trends as well as ongoing challenges — and what’s on the road ahead.

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Privacy-First Foundation for High-Performance Healthcare Marketing

// By Ray Mina // Privacy regulations make healthcare marketing harder. A healthcare privacy platform adds a layer of protection, giving digital marketers access to the analytics tools they need without putting protected health information at risk. Find out how marketers get in hot water with regulators and how to structure your tech stack for HIPAA compliance.

The 2024 eHealthcare Leadership Awards Are Open—Submit Your Entries Today!

This year marks the silver anniversary of the eHealthcare Leadership Awards. Join us as we celebrate 25 years of industry innovation and honor your accomplishments from the past year. The Call for Entries is officially open! The eHealthcare Leadership Awards recognize outstanding health websites and digital initiatives, highlighting the role of digital communications in achieving Read More

25 Years of Celebrating Excellence: eHealthcare Leadership Awards Are Open

// By Susan Dubuque // This year marks the silver anniversary of the eHealthcare Leadership Awards. Join us as we celebrate 25 years of industry innovation and honor your accomplishments from the past year. The eHealthcare Leadership Awards recognize outstanding health websites and digital initiatives. The Call for Entries is officially open!

Newly Updated HHS Guidance: What Healthcare Marketers Need to Know

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has just offered its first update to its 2022 guidance on online tracking technologies and HIPAA compliance. The guidance gives some reassurance and some red flags for healthcare marketers when it comes to tracking technologies, sharing consumer data, and maintaining HIPAA compliance. Its original guidance in Read More

Advocate Aurora Health Transforms Healthcare Delivery by Leveraging Consumer-Centric Digital Technology

Advocate Aurora Health’s commitment to the consumer experience at every step in the digital journey has positioned this organization among the best consumer-first healthcare systems in the country. Advocate Aurora Health (now called Advocate Health Care in Illinois and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin) was one of four health-related organizations to receive the Mark Gothberg Read More

Innovaccer and Cured Join Forces to Create a “Healthcare Experience Platform”: What it Means for Healthcare Marketers

One benefit of mixing and mingling at industry events is that you might discover another service provider with solutions that complement your own. That was the story behind Innovaccer’s acquisition of Cured earlier this year. Cured cofounder and CEO Andrew Sawyer says, “We had obviously started to see them in market at conferences and as Read More

HHS Has Updated Its Guidance: What It Means for Your Organization

// By Rachael Sauceman // The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has just offered its first update to its 2022 guidance on online tracking technologies and HIPAA compliance. The guidance gives some reassurance and some red flags for healthcare marketers. Find out what the updates mean for healthcare organizations.

What Does It Take to Be a Winner? Learn Why Advocate Aurora Health Took Home Top Honors at the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

// By Susan Dubuque // Advocate Aurora Health’s commitment to the consumer experience at every step in the digital journey has positioned this organization among the best consumer-first healthcare systems in the country. Advocate Aurora Health (now called Advocate Health Care in Illinois and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin) was one of four health-related organizations Read More

Integrating Generative AI Into Your Healthcare Marketing Strategy

AI is a fast-moving train. Innovative health systems are jumping on board, testing new tools, and finding new use cases. Generative AI revolutionizes marketing and communications, offering unprecedented opportunities for customer engagement and personalization. According to a survey from Botco.ai, a generative AI chatbot company, 73 percent of marketing departments use generative AI to produce Read More

A Best in Breed Data Platform + Healthcare CRM: A “Match Made in Heaven”

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // If the promise of CRM in healthcare has been largely unfulfilled, data silos are partially to blame. Innovaccer’s acquisition of digital marketing and CRM platform Cured earlier this year could solve data challenges and accelerate growth for health systems. One benefit of mixing and mingling at industry events is Read More

Privacy-First Healthcare Marketing: What it Means and Who Should Be Involved

What does it really mean to embrace a privacy-first communications approach? That’s just one of the many questions we wanted to answer during a recent webinar, Privacy-First: How to Ensure Your Healthcare Marketing Aligns with HIPAA. This webinar was presented on February 1, 2024 by eHealthcare Strategy & Trends. The panel discussion explored safer ways Read More

How Top Healthcare Organizations Use Rich Media to Attract and Engage Patients

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 showcase award-winning entries. Best Rich Media is one of 30 categories healthcare organizations and their agencies could enter. According to Google, “Rich media is a digital Read More

How Generative AI Transforms Marketing Operations at Mount Sinai, Banner Health

AI is a fast-moving train. Innovative health systems are jumping on board, testing new tools, and finding new use cases. // By Althea Fung // Generative AI revolutionizes marketing and communications, offering unprecedented opportunities for customer engagement and personalization. According to a survey from Botco.ai, a generative AI chatbot company, 73 percent of marketing departments Read More

Privacy-First Marketing: HIPAA Guidance for Your Healthcare Communications

// By Elaine Christie // What does it really mean to embrace a privacy-first communications approach? That’s just one of the many questions we wanted to answer during a recent webinar. This article offers tips for creating a safer-by-default tech stack that still offers clear visibility into the customer journey without compromising patient trust.

9 Pitfalls of Digital Advertising

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

Best Rich Media: Who Won, and Why?

Find out how top healthcare organizations use rich media to attract and engage patients, and how interactive experiences can meet critical training needs. // By Jane Weber Brubaker // 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 Read More

Where Does CRM Stand in Addressing Today’s Healthcare Challenges?

The high cost and amount of churn in the healthcare CRM market have had many marketing leaders wondering if the huge investment they made was worth it. And those who still shop for the right solution wonder where to turn. But the need for flexible solutions that meet organizational needs has never been greater, as Read More

Geisinger and Henry Ford Health Leverage Epic Cheers to Fuel Marketing Efforts

Epic is the dominant player in electronic health records, with U.S. hospital market share of 35.9 percent, according to May 2023 research from KLAS, reported by Becker’s. This figure represents 47.6 percent of beds — nearly double that of Epic’s closest competitor, Oracle Cerner (25.8 percent), which gained hospitals but lost beds year over year. Read More

9 Digital Advertising Pitfalls: Ignore Them at Your Peril

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