In the ever-evolving landscape of wireless technology, mobile devices have emerged as a dominant force, transforming the way we access information and services. As mobile healthcare takes center stage in the wireless era, healthcare marketers are modernizing their strategies to cater to the growing demand for mobile experiences and meet evolving consumer expectations. Today, according Read More
// By Daniel Fell and Dean Browell, PhD // Marketers shouldn’t overlook the incredibly powerful qualities of qualitative or “thick” data that delivers rich, deep insights and meaning that quantitative data often can’t provide. Some readers may recall the popular “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” campaign that ran in the early 2000s, a tongue-in-cheek Read More
// By Arthur Hill // For Inspira Health and University of Iowa Health Care, mobile design is not an afterthought. Today, according to CTIA, a trade organization for the wireless communications industry, Americans own 499 million wireless devices capable of transmitting and receiving broadband signals 117 percent faster than just 13 years ago. In 2021, Read More
Like mobile devices, mobile design is always on the move, constantly adapting to consumer expectations and technology capabilities. We’ve seen trends like M-Dot come and go, followed by responsive design, adaptive design, mobile-first, and device-agnostic design. The crossover year — when mobile usage of the internet overtook desktop usage for the first time — was Read More
Small tweaks to your email campaigns can add up to big gains. Email has been around longer than most other forms of digital media. “Every company on the planet does it, but it’s sometimes a forgotten channel,” says email expert Jay Schwedelson. Email marketing has a lot of benefits, as we’ll see, but are healthcare Read More
Ask the Expert, with Gregg Shanefelt, Principal Engineer, Mobile Development at Phase2 // By Jane Weber Brubaker // Designing to meet consumer expectations is not a one-and-done proposition. Like mobile devices, mobile design is always on the move, constantly adapting to consumer expectations and technology capabilities. We’ve seen trends like M-Dot come and go, followed Read More
In this exclusive report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, we highlight the many ways that content marketing is being used by hospitals and health systems around the country.
Ask the Expert, with Jay Schwedelson, founder of SubjectLine.com and CEO of Outcome Media // By Jane Weber Brubaker // Small tweaks to your email campaigns can add up to big gains. Email has been around longer than most other forms of digital media. “Every company on the planet does it, but it’s sometimes Read More
In this exclusive report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, we examine the current state of AI usage in healthcare by sharing case studies and successful implementation practices from industry leaders and innovators.
// By Susan Dubuque // To truly meet the healthcare needs of patients and citizens of New Jersey, Hackensack Meridian Health leaders recognized that the system needed to invest in digital health. And the investments had to go beyond purchasing new technology — it would require total commitment at every level of the organization. Hackensack Read More
How often does a CEO ask what it would take to become the best healthcare content producer in the world — in two years — and then give you the resources to do it? Amanda Todorovich, executive director of content marketing at Cleveland Clinic, freely admits that the scope of what she and her team Read More
// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Five principles for leading your organization’s digital marketing efforts. Amanda Todorovich, Cleveland Clinic’s executive director of content marketing, freely admits that the scope of what she and her team are tasked with is not typical. How often does a CEO ask what it would take to become the best Read More
Ohio State Wexner Medical Center faced a challenge. It wanted to combine blog content and news from several high-performing system websites into a single mega site called Ohio State Health & Discovery. But much of the content it planned to use had earned high rankings in Google’s search engine results pages (SERP), including many placements Read More
Why travel by horse and buggy when you can drive a Tesla? That’s the metaphor used by three presenters at a recent conference to explain how MedStar Health went from the dark ages of measurement to a souped-up analytics platform that enables insightful, actionable, and easy-to-understand reporting. Ben Waxman, president of Tessellati, LLC, jokes that Read More
// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Do your marketing dollars drive results for your organization? Without the right analytics tools, it’s hard to know — or prove. Why travel by horse and buggy when you can drive a Tesla? That’s the metaphor three presenters at SHSMD Connections 2022 — the annual conference of the Society Read More
2022 has been a momentous year for digital healthcare leaders, in part because the delicate balance — of returning to “normal” after so many years of a global pandemic and returning to the continuous push for more digital transformation — is a fine line given budget constraints and resource limitations. But striking that balance is Read More
// By Jim Samuel // E Pluribus Unum — Out of Many, One. It’s on the back of every dollar bill but can also be applied to health systems that consolidate content into a single hub. Ohio State Wexner Medical Center faced a challenge. It wanted to combine blog content and news from several high-performing Read More
// By Daniel Fell // Why now is a great time to review all the excellent content from this past year and use it in planning for the new year. 2022 has been a momentous year for digital healthcare leaders, in part because the delicate balance — of returning to “normal” after so many years Read More
In this exclusive report from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, we examine the current state of CRM usage in healthcare by sharing case studies and successful implementation practices from industry leaders and innovators.
Without the right tools, it’s hard to meet your strategic goals. With the right tools and partners, it’s as different as night and day. At St. Bernards Healthcare in northeast Arkansas, trying to prospect for new patients among new movers wasn’t working. That changed when the health system adopted a CRM platform, Virgin Pulse, in Read More
// By Jane Weber Brubaker // St. Bernards’ marketing team tried to run direct mail campaigns on their own, but they weren’t working. Today, it’s a different story. Without the right tools, it’s hard to meet your strategic goals. With the right tools and partners, it’s as different as night and day. At St. Bernards Read More
Primary care plays a central role in the healthcare delivery system. But the COVID-19 pandemic upended primary care services. As a result, many primary care physicians closed their offices, offered reduced services, or used virtual care services to connect with patients. But when offices began to reopen, patients remained reticent to return. So is a Read More
// By Althea Fung // Sometimes patients need a nudge to get back to care. A CRM platform and a winning strategy drove positive results for this Louisiana-based health system. Primary care plays a central role in the healthcare delivery system. But the COVID-19 pandemic upended primary care services. As a result, many primary care Read More
“I’ve been a healthcare marketer for what seems like a very long time (20 years), with a big chunk of that at Scripps Health in San Diego,” writes Marc Needham, chief growth officer for Combinaut. “Over that very long period, I’ve seen lots of seemingly impossible problems vanish and other problems that seemed easily remedied Read More
// By Marc Needham // A fully integrated and transparent funnel allows you to focus your efforts where they’re going to really make a difference. When my kids first meet other kids their age, they perform a funny little ritual. There’s typically some introductory small talk and then they start to drill for common interests, Read More