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Should Influencer Marketing Be Part of Your Marketing Mix?

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When you think of influencer marketing, do celebrities like LeBron James and Taylor Swift and their millions of followers come to mind? Ochsner Health is thinking small, successfully leveraging “micro-influencers” — those with 1,000 followers or more — to get the word out in Louisiana about choosing healthy habits. Ochsner chose to tap into the Read More

The Power of Personalized Patient Retention Marketing

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How Virtua Health tracked marketing efforts to revenue dollars and patient outcomes. // By Wendy Margolin // Imagine tracking the direct patient journey from receiving a piece of marketing content to undergoing life-saving surgery. You could measure the direct correlation of your hospital marketing communication team’s effort to improve patient outcomes. It’s every healthcare marketer’s Read More

An Unfiltered Conversation About AI — With AI Itself

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Editor’s Note: We’ve done a lot of Q&A’s over the years, but never with AI. Until now. The following interview takes place with a conversational chatbot called Pi, recently released by the company Inflection AI, started by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman in 2022. Inflection AI is working on a variety of machine learning and generative Read More

How to Influence People to Choose Healthy Habits

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Influencer marketing is inexpensive and drives engagement — should it be part of your marketing mix? Ochsner Health says yes. // By Jane Weber Brubaker //        When you think of influencer marketing, do celebrities like LeBron James and Taylor Swift and their millions of followers come to mind? Ochsner Health is thinking Read More

Everything You Wanted to Know About AI and Healthcare Marketing

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

Your Presenters:

  • Rachelle Montano, Vice President of Clinical Strategy, Loyal
  • Matt Cohen, Director of AI, Loyal

You’ll learn:

  • About different types of AI technologies and their real use cases.
  • How to evaluate AI-based solutions for your organization and get past the hype.
  • Concrete ways that AI technologies are enhancing marketing today.
  • Where the biggest risks lurk for healthcare marketers and when you need to proceed with caution.
  • How to safely test the waters before diving in … so you can avoid the dangers posed by being left behind.
  • What the future holds.

And much more!

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4 Tips for Maintaining HIPAA Compliance and Managing Online Tracking Risks

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Digital marketing got a lot riskier when HHS rolled out its “Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates” bulletin last December. What steps should you take to manage the risks? Change often feels like the only constant in the world of healthcare marketing. And oh, what a year of change! Read More

My Interview with AI — About AI

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// By Daniel Fell // Editor’s Note: We’ve done a lot of Q&A’s over the years, but never with AI. Until now. The following interview takes place with a conversational chatbot called Pi, recently released by the company Inflection AI, started by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman in 2022. Inflection AI is working on a variety machine Read More

Overcoming Your Digital Challenges With Effective Change Management

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How is it possible that a health system operating in four U.S. states and three countries in Central and South America with 50,000 employees would be invisible to search engines — unless you searched on it by name? Take cardiology for example. CHRISTUS Health has a 100-bed heart hospital in Tyler, Texas. It is the Read More

Traffic Risks: Next Steps for Tracking Pixels and HIPAA Compliance

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Digital marketing got a lot riskier when HHS rolled out its “Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates” bulletin last December. What steps should you take to manage the risks? // By Elaine Christie // Change often feels like the only constant in the world of healthcare marketing. And oh, Read More

HIPAA Compliance FAQs: Your Guide to Healthcare Data Protection

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Have questions about how to manage tracking technologies in light of HHS/OCR guidance? So do your peers. Here are some answers from two technology leaders. “When HHS and OCR opened up a huge can of worms last December, they created some chaos in the universe of healthcare marketers who work for entities covered by HIPAA,” Read More

A Recipe for Success: Leveraging Market Research Insights to Support Patients

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On a journey to “future proof” its marketing, Fresenius Kidney Care started in the most unlikely of places: recipes. As with any chronic illness, diet dramatically affects a patient’s success. But a kidney disease-friendly diet has more restrictions and requirements than most. One in seven U.S. adults have kidney disease, and one in three don’t Read More

Finding The Perfect Match: Building a Provider Finder That Delivers Results

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Download this new free case study to learn how Scripps Health took its provider search from good to great.

You’ll learn:

  • Why Scripps Health felt that a custom solution would help them put patients’ needs first
  • The key elements of a great provider search experience
  • How to integrate marketing and referral campaigns into the care search experience
  • How data from scheduled appointments can influence strategic decisionmaking — and why this makes the ability to share this data crucially important
  • And much more!

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How Your Health System Website Can Be Your Best Digital Salesperson

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Against a backdrop of rapidly emerging digital marketing tools, the venerable website deserves as much attention as ever. Your website should be your best salesperson. It’s often the first point of contact with your company’s products and services for the majority of potential customers. Anything from a Google search to a radio ad or a Read More

Answering the Call for Growth Through Data-Enabled Solutions

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Never before has the role of the healthcare marketing leader been more crucial to health system performance. Following waves of COVID, the resulting depletion of both operational capacity and emotional stamina forced health systems to grapple with the brutal combination of rising costs and diminishing access. The ensuing reductions in staffing and closing of services Read More

Solving the HIPAA Conundrum

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// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Can healthcare marketers leverage tracking technologies the way they used to without risking noncompliance? When HHS stepped on the gas last December — issuing ominous warnings about HIPAA, tracking pixels, and PHI — healthcare marketers and legal and compliance teams put the brakes on fast. But some organizations had Read More

Digital Ethnography Sheds New Light on Online Patient Behavior

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How well do you really understand your target audience? Whether that’s patients, prospective employees, donors, or any other stakeholders you want to reach and influence, it’s easy to make incorrect assumptions about why they behave the way they do. In the digital realm, social listening tools help organizations hear what people say online, and analyze Read More

A Data-Enabled Approach to Patient and Referral Growth

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Contemporary solutions leveraging AI, big data, and proven customer platforms provide a breakthrough opportunity for health system growth when it is most needed. When data and technology are used to view patient and provider behavior in the market holistically, new opportunities come to light. // By Rich Phillips // Never before has the role of Read More

ChatGPT Prompt Writing: Best Practices to Get the Results You Need

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There’s no question that ChatGPT possesses power that users are only beginning to understand. Unleashing its potential in your healthcare marketing strategy starts with learning how to craft strong prompts. Writing is one of the most important business functions. And now, any savvy AI user can produce coherent writing with a few keystrokes. But there’s Read More

What Is Digital Ethnography, and Why Should You Use It?

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Ask the Expert, with Dean Browell, Chief Behavioral Officer at Feedback  “We want to know if there’s a gap between what they’re saying when you’re courting them from a survey standpoint, versus what they’re actually doing out in the wild.”  // By Jane Weber Brubaker // How well do you really understand your target audience? Read More