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AI Innovation of the Future: The Einstein Divide

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A virtual summit for healthcare marketers and digital strategists from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends

Presented December 12, 2025 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

  • Sameer Sethi, SVP, Chief AI Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health
  • Jason Lesandrini, Assistant Vice President of Ethics, Wellstar Health System
  • Stephanie Wierwille, EVP, Strategy & Innovation, BPD
  • Edward Marx, Chief Executive Officer, Marx Advisory

Moderated by:

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

You’ll Learn:

  • What early results and lessons leaders are seeing across functions
  • How to build internal fluency and prepare teams for what’s next
  • What structural, ethical, and cultural shifts are required for AI readiness
  • How to responsibly operationalize AI while protecting trust and compliance
  • How leading systems are using AI to elevate marketing, experience, and brand
  • Outside the box ideas that reimagine AI-powered organizations

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Enterprise Design for AI

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A virtual summit for healthcare marketers and digital strategists from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends

Presented Friday, December 12, 2025 at 1 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

  • Victoria Davis, Group Account Director, BPD
  • Christine Kotler, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Baptist Health South Florida
  • Pam Landis, VP, Digital Engagement, Hackensack Meridian

Join us to learn how healthcare leaders are:

  • Designing enterprise AI strategies that connect marketing, digital, IT, and operations rather than creating new silos
  • Defining roles, responsibilities, and decision rights for AI, including who owns what, and how work flows across teams
  • Building data and technology architectures that allow AI solutions to plug into existing systems without creating chaos
  • Establishing governance models that address risk, ethics, security, and regulatory requirements while still enabling innovation
  • Prioritizing use cases and investments so AI efforts align with organizational goals, not just individual passions, or shiny objects
  • Developing talent, training, and operating norms so teams feel confident using AI in their day-to-day work
  • Measuring impact in ways that resonate with executive leadership and support ongoing investment

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Are Hyper-Personalized Patient Journeys Our New Future? How Industry Leaders Are Using AI Agents to Get There

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A virtual summit for healthcare marketers and digital strategists from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends

Presented December 11, 2025 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

  • Andrew Chang, Chief Marketing Officer, UChicago Medicine
  • Chris Hemphill, Founder and Head of Applied Data Science & AI Modular Feedback
  • Paul Lambson, Assistant Vice President, Consumer Technology, Northwell Health

Moderated by:

  • Drew Marlatt, VP, Data Products and Technology, BPD

You’ll Learn:

  • How healthcare consumerism can improve with AI “agents”— autonomous software that can navigate systems, pull data, and complete transactions without human intervention.
  • What it looks like to design systems and processes where consumer interactions feel effortless.
  • What happens when websites are no longer the primary tool for transactions.
  • How AI agents are enabling real-time personalization and eliminating the “one-size-fits-all” healthcare digital experience that has long frustrated patients.

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AI Agents and Workflow Optimization: From Idea to Impact

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A virtual summit for healthcare marketers and digital strategists from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends

Presented Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 1 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

  • Drew Marlatt, VP, Data Products & Technology, BPD
  • Carrie Liken, Strategic Account Executive, Snowflake

Moderated by:

  • Therese Lockemy, founder and CEO, Inner Path Digital

Join us to learn how healthcare marketers are:

  • Identifying high-value workflows that are ready for AI agents today, and where manual oversight is still essential
  • Reducing operational friction by using agents to automate tasks like appointment scheduling, care coordination, data pulls, list creation, campaign setup, segmentation, and reporting
  • Connecting cloud data, MarTech, and enterprise systems so agents can act on unified, governed information
  • Designing guardrails, governance models, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints that keep outputs safe, accurate, and on-brand
  • Learning from agent use cases in other industries, and translating those practices responsibly into healthcare
  • Preparing teams for a new operating model where AI agents augment capacity, accelerate execution, and free humans for higher-value work
  • Balancing near-term efficiency gains with long-term opportunities to reimagine end-to-end marketing workflows

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Consumer Behavior in the Age of AI Search: How to Make Your Content Seen and Trusted

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A virtual summit for healthcare marketers and digital strategists from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends

Presented December 9, 2025 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

  • Lacey Reichwald, Director of Marketing, Aha Media Group
  • Robbie Schneider, Enterprise Social Media Manager/ Content Marketing Leader, Franciscan Health

Moderated by:

  • Wendy Margolin, Contributing Writer, Plain-English Health Care

You’ll learn:

  • How AI tools are reshaping when, where, and how consumers search for health information
  • What drives trust — and what causes patients to question AI-generated answers
  • Practical steps to make your organization’s content more visible, verifiable, and patient-friendly in AI search results
  • How real hospitals are adapting their content to stay discoverable and relevant as AI becomes the first stop in the care journey
  • Attend this session to understand what today’s consumers need — and to see what leading health systems are already doing to meet them there.

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AI and Content: Turning Generative Tools into a Scalable Strategy

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A virtual summit for healthcare marketers and digital strategists from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends

Presented December 9, 2025 at 1 p.m. Eastern 

Panelists:

  • Matt Cyr, Founder & President, Loop AI Agency
  • Allie Karas, Senior Vice President of Content, MJH Life Sciences
  • Carolina Anthony, Executive Director, Digital Marketing, AdventHealth

Moderated by:

  • Emily Baker, AVP, Engagement Strategy, BPD

Join us to learn how healthcare leaders are:

  • Translating enterprise goals into AI-informed content roadmaps that prioritize the right topics, audiences, and formats.
  • Using generative AI to support audience research, content ideation, and first drafts, while preserving a strong editorial point of view.
  • Establishing content standards, style guides, and prompts that help AI produce outputs aligned with brand, clinical, and accessibility requirements.
  • Optimizing existing content for AI-driven search and summarization so that trusted information is more likely to surface in AI answers and recommendation engines.
  • Integrating human review, legal/compliance sign-off, and fact-checking into AI-assisted workflows without overwhelming teams.
  • Upskilling writers, strategists, and digital teams to use AI tools confidently — including how to spot hallucinations, bias, and gaps
  • Defining KPIs and feedback loops that show where AI is helping content perform better, and where traditional approaches are still the better choice

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Inside the Real-World AI Playbooks of Leading Health Systems

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Learn What’s Working and What’s Next from Marketers Implementing AI at Scale

Presented December 8, 2025

Panelists:

  • Val Lopez, Assistant Vice President, Marketing Operations, Baptist Health South Florida
  • Lisa D. Mason, AVP, Product Design & Insights, Providence
  • Amanda Todorovich, Enterprise Executive Director, Digital Marketing, Cleveland Clinic
  • Stephanie Wierwille, EVP, Engagement, BPD

Moderated by:

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

Join us to learn how healthcare leaders are:

  • Navigating the early stages of AI learning and adoption across large organizations
  • Identifying smart, strategic opportunities for AI in marketing workflows
  • Aligning AI efforts with patient trust, brand values, and data governance
  • Building internal literacy and cross-functional support
  • Avoiding pitfalls and pushing past pilot fatigue
  • Keeping the human element at the center of AI-driven strategies

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Beyond Digital: How Three Health Systems Turned Transformation into a Way of Life

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// By Susan Dubuque // This year’s Mark Gothberg eHealthcare Organizational Commitment Award winners — Hackensack Meridian Health, Intermountain Health, and UCLA Health —  redefine what it means to lead in a digital-first world. Get a closer look at how each of these award-winning organizations brings its mission to life through forward-thinking digital strategies.

Transforming Patient Acquisition with AI-Powered Conversation Intelligence

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Presented November 18, 2025

Discover how Emory Healthcare and University Hospitals connect the dots between digital touchpoints and phone conversations, creating seamless experiences that drive patient acquisition and retention.

Your Presenters:

  • Allyzon Zahorcak, Director, Performance Marketing, Emory Healthcare
  • Noah Brooks, Manager of Analytics & Strategy, University Hospitals
  • Lyndey Brock, Director of Account Management Health, Healthcare Vertical, Invoca

Moderated by:

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

You’ll Learn:

  • How to track call conversions back to the exact ad or keyword that drove them.
  • How you can automate bidding strategies and optimize for high-value patient calls.
  • How to improve your website by understanding which interactions led to calls.
  • How to use digital intent data to route callers to the most qualified agent or care location, improving first-call resolution.

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2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards Honor Outstanding Healthcare Digital Initiatives 

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Winners of the 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards were announced on November 9th at an awards presentation held during the Healthcare Internet Conference. More than 270 organizations were recognized for their outstanding work. Winners of Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Distinction awards represent 18 industry classifications, from hospitals and health systems to pharmaceutical firms.

2025 eHealthcare Leadership Award Winners Announced    

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// By Susan Dubuque // Winners of the 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards were announced on November 9th at an awards presentation held during the Healthcare Internet Conference. More than 270 organizations were recognized for their outstanding work. Winners of Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Distinction awards represent 18 industry classifications, from hospitals and health systems to pharmaceutical firms.

How Leading Health Systems Align Strategy, Architecture, and Partnerships to Elevate Digital Experiences

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Healthcare digital leaders from Children’s Nebraska, Rochester Regional Health, UCI Health, and industry experts from Reason One and Schema App share practical strategies for navigating AI search, composable architecture, and the evolving patient journey. Discover how leading healthcare organizations are building flexible, future-ready digital experiences that meet patients wherever they are.

From Reactive to Proactive: The Rise of Agentic AI in Healthcare

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// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Agentic AI is forecast to make 15 percent of work decisions by 2028. Healthcare organizations can prepare by aligning human intelligence, technology, and governance to accelerate innovation. Here, we look at the potential for agentic AI to solve healthcare’s biggest problems, and share a successful case study featuring NYC Health + Hospitals.

Beyond the Website: How Healthcare Organizations Navigate AI Discovery, Composable Tech, and Changing Patient Behavior

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// By Therese Lockemy, MBA // Healthcare digital leaders from Children’s Nebraska, Rochester Regional Health, UCI Health, and industry experts from Reason One and Schema App share practical strategies for navigating AI search, composable architecture, and the evolving patient journey. Discover how leading healthcare organizations are building flexible, future-ready digital experiences that meet patients wherever they are.

2025 Healthcare Marketing Compliance Survey

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The 2025 Healthcare Marketing Compliance Survey provides marketing leaders a snapshot of the state of tracking and privacy compliance for digital marketing in healthcare.

Complete the survey today, and you’ll receive:

  • Early access to the survey results once they are fully compiled
  • Valuable, exclusive data about the state of healthcare marketing compliance
  • A chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card!

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Beyond the Banner Ad: Digital Campaigns that Work

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Presented October 8, 2025

Panelists:

  • Matt King, solutions consultant, population intelligence, Definitive Healthcare
  • Amy Arnold, senior paid social media manager, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
  • Alexis Castano, digital marketing consultant, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
  • Eric Fullmer, digital marketing manager, Ochsner Health
  • Jenna Rabideau, marketing specialist, Senior, Vandalia Health Mon

Moderator:

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

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • Tips to make your programmatic buy more effective and efficient.
  • How to balance brand and performance marketing through digital channels.
  • Strategies for successful product line marketing.
  • How a leading healthcare organization orchestrated a campaign with tactical precision, leveraging advanced Demand Side Platform (DSP) technology.

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How Ochsner’s Connected MOM Program Closes Gaps in Maternal Health

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// By Althea Fung // The United States has one of the highest maternal mortality rates among developed nations. Ochsner Health’s Connected MOM program rewrites the script on maternal mortality with remote monitoring and digital education. Read on to learn how this program helps flag problems before they become emergencies.

Where Is Healthcare Marketing Headed Next? Industry Leaders Map the Road Ahead

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If you question where healthcare marketing is headed, these experts have answers. We turned to trusted voices from organizations supporting the eHealthcare Leadership Awards, all leaders in the healthcare marketing space. Their insights reveal not only where the field is headed but also how marketers can adapt and thrive.

Winning the Talent Game: Digital Strategies for Recruitment & Retention

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Presented on September 9, 2025

Panelists:

  • Shannon Curran, chief marketing officer, Unlock Health
  • Alex Fagundes, marketing business partner, Renown Health
  • Jenny Collopy, vice president, chief marketing and communications officer, The Christ Hospital Health Network

Moderator:

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

Here is what you can expect:

  • How leading health systems are using digital marketing to attract top talent across clinical and non-clinical roles.
  • How to incorporate employee voices into your recruitment and retention marketing.
  • Successful strategies to attract “hard to recruit” health care professionals.
  • Tactics for retaining employees.
  • Proven ways to reach younger healthcare workers.
  • Much more.

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The Future of Hospital Websites: Navigating AI, Search, UX, and the Shift to Composable Architecture

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Presented September 3, 2025

Your Presenters:

  • Michael Kinkaid, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Reason One
  • Laura Housholder, Digital Marketing Manager, Children’s Nebraska
  • Martha van Berkel, co-founder and CEO, Schema App
  • Tyler Pierce, Director of Digital Engagement, Rochester Regional Health
  • Tara Nooteboom, Director of Consumer Digital Strategy, UCI Health

Moderated by:

  • Therese Lockemy, Founder and Principal Consultant, Inner Path Digital, L.L.C

Join us as our panelists explore how you can:

  • Develop a strategic approach to website transformation that aligns technology choices with organizational goals and patient needs
  • Make smart platform decisions by understanding the real differences between major platforms and when composable solutions make sense
  • Build flexible foundations using composable architecture to future-proof your investment and enable rapid adaptation
  • Implement AI thoughtfully with clear use cases that enhance rather than complicate the patient experience, from intelligent search to automated scheduling to personalized content delivery
  • Improve findability and discoverability through advanced SEO, schema markup, and optimizing for how patients now search using generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI overviews
  • Create governance models that balance innovation with security, compliance, and the need for strategic oversight

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Access, Experience, and Market Intelligence Drive Strategic Growth

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// By Jane Weber Brubaker // In a recent webinar, three marketing leaders took the conversation about customer growth up a notch — from patient acquisition tactics and media spend to what should be the heart of effective strategies. Learn how they view the challenges and opportunities of growth, where to focus efforts, and how to grow smarter.