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

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.

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

A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends webinar with insights from LionShare

Wednesday | August 26, 2026 | 2 p.m. Eastern

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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How Novant Health Filled a Critical Gap in Menopause Care With a Virtual-First Strategy

Menopause is a universal experience for women. Novant Health’s virtual menopause clinic shows what happens when real patient needs and smart digital strategy align. Learn how Novant Health identified a gap in care, then aligned clinical leadership, operational readiness, and digital marketing to deliver strong results on a surprisingly small budget.

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

// 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.

How Novant Health Turned an Unmet Need into a High-Performing Virtual Service

// By Susan Dubuque // Menopause is a universal experience for women. Novant Health’s virtual menopause clinic shows what happens when real patient needs and smart digital strategy align. Learn how Novant Health identified a gap in care, then aligned clinical leadership, operational readiness, and digital marketing to deliver strong results on a surprisingly small budget.

Why You Need to Treat Social Media as a Customer Service Channel

When Laura Kuechenmeister started leading the social team at Emory Healthcare, she came with a publishing mindset. It didn’t take long for her to realize she also needed to think about social media from a customer service perspective. Learn why healthcare marketers need to consider social media an important customer service channel.

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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The Future of Hospital Websites: Essential Strategies for Building Next-Generation Digital Experiences

In March 2026, eHealthcare Strategy & Trends hosted The Future of Hospital Websites, a virtual summit that explored the strategies, technologies, and governance models shaping the next generation of hospital and health system websites. In this new report, you’ll find key insights and actionable takeaways from every session of the summit.

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

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.

Patients Use Social Media for Customer Service — Are You Listening?

// By Wendy Margolin // When Laura Kuechenmeister started leading the social team at Emory Healthcare, she came with a publishing mindset. It didn’t take long for her to realize she also needed to think about social media from a customer service perspective. Learn why healthcare marketers need to consider social media an important customer service channel.

Location Strategy Is Access Strategy: How Billings Clinic Improved Findability

// 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.

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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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.

Maximizing MarTech in Healthcare: From Stack Sprawl to Strategic Growth

A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends webinar with insights from Atlantic Health, UNC Health and Unlock Health

Presented May 13, 2026

Your Presenters:

• Orla Seidel, Director, CRM & Digital Marketing at Atlantic Health
• Susie Magrogan, Performance and Demand Gen Manager at UNC Health
• Lisa Bevere, Senior Director of Digital Strategy at Unlock Health

Moderated by:

• Jamie Mermelstein, VP of Digital Experience at Unlock Health

Together, we’ll explore:

• Where attribution breaks down in healthcare organizations — and why
• How to connect brand investment to measurable access and utilization
• What full-funnel governance requires across marketing, IT, analytics, and operations
• How to move from reporting metrics to guiding decisions
• What it takes to align strategy, martech, and Epic tools to achieve true full-funnel marketing and analytics

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Better Design, Better Access: How Health Systems Can Remove Friction from the Digital Patient Journey

Panelists from Roper St. Francis Healthcare, Emory Healthcare, Reason One, and WG Content explain why better healthcare design is not just about look and feel. It is about reducing friction, building trust, and making access easier for patients.

Healthcare Marketing Compliance Trends 2026

A free white paper, published by Ours Privacy

• How marketers are balancing HIPAA compliance with campaign performance
• Why rising costs and limited tracking are impacting ROI
• Where martech stacks are breaking down and what’s replacing them

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