The Health System Digital Front Door: Enhancing Patient Access, Engagement, and Experience

A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends member roundtable, featuring winners from the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

Wednesday | August 7, 2024 | 2 p.m. Eastern

Your Panelists:

• Jennifer Segalini, VP of Strategy at Phase2
• Amanda Jones, Senior Director of Digital Engagement at Geisinger
• Jennifer Mackendree, System Director of Marketing at Health First
• Nardeep Singh, Marketing Technology Manager at Renown Health

In this session, you’ll learn:

• The breadth, scope, and depth of DFD strategies and tools
• Best practices for implementing a DFD
• Practical tips for enhancing patient engagement and satisfaction
• How a DFD can impact marketing outcomes
• How to prioritize DFD investments for maximum impact
• And much more!

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Cleveland Clinic’s AI Strategy Offers Valuable Lessons for Healthcare Marketers

Partnering, piloting, and proceeding with cautious optimism are hallmarks of Cleveland Clinic’s methodology for incorporating AI into the marketing communications workflow. Learn how Cleveland Clinic optimizes AI to enhance its marketing efforts and discover 7 tips on how to effectively adopt AI in a large health system.

What It Takes to Be Named Among the Best Integrated Marketing Campaigns: Part 1

// By Susan Dubuque // Integrated marketing campaigns are a foundational tool in any healthcare marketing department. They deliver cohesive, impactful messages that resonate with diverse audiences, drive patient engagement, and ultimately improve health outcomes. Discover how award-winning healthcare systems plan and execute successful integrated marketing campaigns to build their brands and support development.

Patient and Provider Predictive Matching Drives Positive Results for Midwestern Health System

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Physician relationships can be challenging for both the patient and provider. MD MatchUp offers a solution by matching patients and providers based on personality assessments. This innovative tool helps health systems attract and retain patients, improving patient satisfaction and financial outcomes. Explore how MD MatchUp can enhance the healthcare experience.

Cleveland Clinic’s Strategic Approach to Adopting AI

// By Wendy Margolin // Partnering, piloting, and proceeding with cautious optimism are hallmarks of Cleveland Clinic’s methodology for incorporating AI into the marketing communications workflow. Learn how Cleveland Clinic optimizes AI to enhance its marketing efforts and discover 7 tips on how to effectively adopt AI in a large health system.

Discover Award-Winning Digital Strategies to Improve Patient Experience

eHealthcare Leadership Awards provides a valuable opportunity to see what leading healthcare systems across the country do so you can adapt and apply these best practices in your organization. Discover how award-winning healthcare organizations demonstrate best practices in digital strategies to improve the patient experience.

Providence’s DexCare Platform Streamlines Access for Patients and Providers

Who best to solve a complex problem than someone who’s repeatedly felt its sting? That’s what leaders at Providence learned, and now their commercialization of the resulting platform, DexCare, is on track to help other healthcare organizations be discovered and match the right care with the right provider and modality at the right time.

Privacy-First Foundation for High-Performance Healthcare Marketing

// By Ray Mina // Privacy regulations make healthcare marketing harder. A healthcare privacy platform adds a layer of protection, giving digital marketers access to the analytics tools they need without putting protected health information at risk. Find out how marketers get in hot water with regulators and how to structure your tech stack for HIPAA compliance.

How to Future-Proof Your Healthcare Website

Your Presenters:

• Kevin Smith, Assistant Vice President, Digital Engagement, Baptist Health (KY)
• Matt Schwabel, Executive Director, Marketing Technology & Operations, UNC Health
• Michael Kinkaid, Chief Technology Officer, Reason One
• Stephen Barry, Product Owner, Lee Health

You’ll learn:

• How to evaluate your current state and define the desired future state
• Considerations for selecting the right technology
• Best practices for gaining buy-in from stakeholders
• How to develop a plan and timeline
• Why a web steering committee is essential
• How to measure success
• And much much more!

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Mobile Apps for Healthcare Providers: Your Patients Need More Than Just a Portal.

An investment in mobile is essential to compete in today’s healthcare marketplace. But should you build or buy?

Meeting customers where they are — on devices they use, in ways that are familiar and seamless — continues to separate leaders from laggards in the healthcare provider space.

Mobile-first strategies, particularly mobile apps, have become a critical part of these efforts.

The mobile app conversation is not a simple one, even if the choices themselves are relatively straightforward: build your own proprietary mobile app or use an existing EHR-provided app, such as Epic’s MyChart.

Download this new white paper today to get insights on how to lead your organization to the right decision.

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8 Steps to Develop and Launch a Successful Healthcare Podcast

More than a third of the U.S. population regularly consumed podcasts in 2022. Should you/your organization start a podcast? “When I decided to start a podcast in 2022, I was looking for new ways to promote our physicians’ research,” writes Rachel Baker in a new article. “I also knew from a recent pulse survey that Read More

Ignite Excellence: Get an Inside Look at Winning Strategies for Digital Patient Experience

// By Susan Dubuque // eHealthcare Leadership Awards provides a valuable opportunity to see what leading healthcare systems across the country do so you can adapt and apply these best practices in your organization. Discover how award-winning healthcare organizations demonstrate best practices in digital strategies to improve the patient experience.

Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey 2024

Download our eBook to see how your efforts compare with other healthcare providers, and what tactics you should consider prioritizing to help your organization reach its marketing goals. Who knows — with this valuable information, you may end up as one of our marketing Leaders in a future edition of the survey!

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Built from Inside Providence, DexCare Creates and Markets Platform to Improve Access

// By Cheryl L. Serra // Providence developed DexCare, a digital platform that matches consumer needs to appropriate care. This innovation helps healthcare organizations optimize resources, improving efficiency and reducing costs. DexCare’s commercialization is set to aid other organizations in addressing the critical challenge of healthcare supply and demand.

Boost Your Conversions and Improve Health Outcomes with Superior User Experiences

“Great user experiences don’t just boost conversions. They demonstrate respect for patients’ time, create a sense of trust, and improve health outcomes,” writes Marc Needham. “Math and I never got along very well when I was a kid. I scraped by but found it difficult to get excited about the subject, a fact reflected in Read More

How to Start a Podcast

// By Rachel Baker // More than a third of the U.S. population regularly consumed podcasts in 2022. Should you or your organization start a podcast? Learn how to start your own by discovering the how-to’s, tools, and resources you need to launch, maintain, and continuously improve your podcast.

Vital Signs: The State of Healthcare Digital Marketing, 2024

This free webinar will give marketers the insights you need to stay on top of how the healthcare marketing industry is changing.

Your Presenter

• Ben Dillon, Chief Executive Officer, Geonetric

You’ll Learn:

• Where budgets and staffing are being adjusted after healthcare’s post-pandemic financial crisis
• What digital investments health systems are prioritizing in the coming year
• How health systems are adapting to the recent HIPAA guidance on marketing tracking technology
• The variety of ways healthcare marketers are using generative AI tools and the barriers that exist
• And much more!

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The Secret Patient Conversion Killer Hiding on Your Website: How One Change Boosted Online Appointments by 300 Percent

// By Marc Needham // Great user experiences don’t just boost conversions. They demonstrate respect for patients’ time, create a sense of trust, and improve health outcomes. Learn how fixing one thing on your website could triple your online bookings and help patients find the care they need.

The Remix — The Evolution of the Digital Front Door

This new free guide will help you answer:

• What is the history of the Digital Front Door and what factors have influenced its status today?
• With so much industry and technology disruption, where will the Digital Front Door go next?
• What are the main areas of investment to consider in evolving your Digital Front Door? And how do you measure up?
• What expertise do you need to cultivate a smart and effective Digital Front Door?
• And much more!

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Strategies to Implement Effective Provider Data Management to Improve Patient Experience

Provider data management plays a critical role in enhancing the patient experience, but it takes the right strategy and technologies to execute successfully. Health systems can struggle to see all the benefits of managing provider data when they are juggling revenue growth, controlling costs, recruiting and retaining talent, evolving digital tools, and other priorities. Four Read More

Reimagining CRM for Health Systems with an Enterprise-Wide Approach

Watch our webinar and hear from a top industry expert who will share how CRM has evolved and discuss best practices that can help your organization take full advantage of state-of-the-art CRM capabilities.

You’ll learn:

• What the current state of CRM is in healthcare, and why it often falls short.
• How to structure CRM for enterprise-wide success.
• Best practices for implementation, governance, and strategy.
• How to set priorities that align with the strategic plan when launching campaigns.
• How a CRM can scale communications using real-time data and rules-based automated campaigns.
• What to consider when choosing a CRM solution.
  And much much more!

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Newly Updated HHS Guidance: What Healthcare Marketers Need to Know

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has just offered its first update to its 2022 guidance on online tracking technologies and HIPAA compliance. The guidance gives some reassurance and some red flags for healthcare marketers when it comes to tracking technologies, sharing consumer data, and maintaining HIPAA compliance. Its original guidance in Read More

Advocate Aurora Health Transforms Healthcare Delivery by Leveraging Consumer-Centric Digital Technology

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 to receive the Mark Gothberg Read More

Provider Data Management: An Essential Key to Better Patient Experience

// By Jared Johnson // Provider data management is critical in enhancing the patient experience, but it takes the right strategy and technologies to execute successfully. Discover best practices for implementing effective provider data management strategies and learn how these insights empower patients with accurate information and improved access to care.

Innovaccer and Cured Join Forces to Create a “Healthcare Experience Platform”: What it Means for Healthcare Marketers

One benefit of mixing and mingling at industry events is that you might discover another service provider with solutions that complement your own. That was the story behind Innovaccer’s acquisition of Cured earlier this year. Cured cofounder and CEO Andrew Sawyer says, “We had obviously started to see them in market at conferences and as Read More