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

5 Tips for Incorporating AI Into Your Healthcare Marketing Strategy

// By Wendy Margolin // Economist and professor Richard Baldwin says, “It’s not AI that is going to take your job, but someone who knows how to use AI might.” If you haven’t scratched the surface of AI’s capabilities, you’re not alone. Here are some ideas that will give you a leg up. More than a Read More

Winning Strategies for Digital Physician Engagement

// By Susan Dubuque // Physician engagement is a core strategy for healthcare organizations, used to boost referrals, build brand loyalty, support recruitment and retention, and enhance marketing efforts. Advances in technology offer new and exciting opportunities to target and engage with physicians. Discover how leading healthcare systems demonstrate innovative ways to engage physicians through digital channels.

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

Strategic Repurposing: How to Get the Most Out of Your Content

Hospitals and healthcare organizations produce an astounding amount of content. Thousands of blog posts, service line pages, emails, social media posts and other collateral probably come out of your department every year. But knowing these stats makes all your efforts and content production worth it: 77 percent of health searches begin online. 95 percent of Read More

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

Four Ways to Repurpose Your Content

Don’t forget the mountain of content you’ve already created. There’s precious metal in there, just waiting for some polish so it can sparkle once again. // By Ahava Leibtag // Hospitals and healthcare organizations produce an astounding amount of content. Thousands of blog posts, service line pages, emails, social media posts and other collateral probably 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

Focus on ChatGPT and Large Language Models: Exploring AI’s New Role in Healthcare Marketing

In this new report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, we’ll take you through the first full year of ChatGPT, exploring the opportunities, risks, and practical uses of generative AI in healthcare communication.

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MU Health Care Elevates Content with Strategic Storytelling

What if you had to reach only one audience with your hospital content? Your communications would be more targeted and powerful. You’d know your audience better and deliver content they’re more likely to read. That’s exactly what the team at MU Health Care in Columbia, Missouri, does with its “Live Healthy” blog and related wellness Read More

Social Listening for Healthcare Organizations: Turning Challenges Into Opportunities

Using social media as a tool for customer service is a cornerstone of digital marketing in the 21st century. But it isn’t as simple as firing off a series of posts on X in response to angry customers. In fact, responding to customers when they are angry is merely one component of a broader social Read More

Strategic Storytelling: Unleashing the Power of Clever Content to Elevate Hospital Marketing Communications

One smaller academic hospital shares how it delivers content its target demographic craves. // By Wendy Margolin // What if you had to reach only one audience with your hospital content? Your communications would be more targeted and powerful. You’d know your audience better and deliver content they’re more likely to read. That’s exactly what Read More

Lehigh Valley Health Network Leverages Digital Tools to Enhance Organizational Culture

In today’s healthcare environment, enhancing organizational culture has never been more important or challenging. It requires dedicated focus and the need for marketers to adapt to more diverse employee, leader, and physician communication needs. How do you build and maintain a strong organizational culture in a rapidly growing health system? That’s the challenge Lehigh Valley Read More

Social Listening and Essential Response

How to use social media to your brand’s advantage. // By Meagan Saxton // Using social media as a tool for customer service is a cornerstone of digital marketing in the 21st century. But it isn’t as simple as firing off a series of posts on X in response to angry customers. In fact, responding Read More

How TikTok Can Be an Ideal Channel for Hospital Marketing

In December 2021, Callista Dammann and Jody Ganschinietz sat in their boss’s office watching a short homemade video on repeat. They were about to attempt what teens and young adults do daily by riding on the coattails of the latest viral TikTok video content. But the stakes were high for these two, serving as senior Read More

Developing a Thriving Organizational Culture in a Growing and Increasingly Diverse Health System

In today’s healthcare environment, enhancing organizational culture has never been more important or challenging. It requires dedicated focus and the need for marketers to adapt to more diverse employee, leader, and physician communication needs. // By Brian Griffin // How do you build and maintain a strong organizational culture in a rapidly growing health system? Read More

Not Just for Teens: Hospital Marketers and TikTok

Nationwide Children’s proves TikTok can be an ideal channel for hospital marketing. // By Wendy Margolin // In December 2021, Callista Dammann and Jody Ganschinietz sat in their boss’s office watching a short homemade video on repeat. They were about to attempt what teens and young adults do daily by riding on the coattails of Read More

Focus on Privacy/Tracking: Strategies to Navigate the Risks and Maintain Compliance

In this exclusive report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, you’ll get a comprehensive look at the current privacy/tracking landscape in healthcare marketing. Through expert insights and in-depth
interviews, we’ll provide you with practical tips and strategies to help you navigate the complexities of privacy and tracking in your healthcare marketing efforts.

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Should Influencer Marketing Be Part of Your Marketing Mix?

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

How to Influence People to Choose Healthy Habits

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

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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HIPAA Compliance FAQs: Your Guide to Healthcare Data Protection

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