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How Do Healthcare Organizations Go Beyond Minimum Requirements to Make Digital Experiences Welcoming to People of All Abilities?

April 5, 2019

Ask the Expert, with Simon Dermer, Managing Director, eSSENTIAL Accessibility // By Jared Johnson // Healthcare organizations that invest in their patients with disabilities reap significant rewards. They enjoy loyalty and high patient satisfaction from the largest minority group in the world. But doing so requires going beyond the minimum requirements for website accessibility. It Read More

How to Make Your Chatbot More Human-Like

April 4, 2019

Continuing Evolution of Healthcare AI Improves Consumer Experience // By Althea Fung // Chatbots — a computer program or artificial intelligence (AI) that has text or voice conversations — are redefining customer service, especially in healthcare. A 2017 Juniper Research study found that healthcare providers that use chatbots can expect average time savings of just Read More

Best Practices for Managing SEO Internally

April 3, 2019

Insight from the Bozeman Health Digital Team // By Jane Weber Brubaker // Bozeman Health is a rural health system serving southwest Montana, with two hospitals, 20 clinics, and 150 providers. “Montana is an interesting puzzle when it comes to healthcare because we are about 90 percent of the size of California with about a Read More

Emerging Ethical Challenges for Healthcare Marketers

March 27, 2019

Daniel Fell, president and CEO of ndp, recently moderated the panel presentation Blurred Lines: Marketing and Ethics in the Brave New World held at the 2018 Healthcare Internet Conference (HCIC) in Scottsdale, Arizona. Panel members include Karen Corrigan, founder and CEO of Corrigan Consulting; David Feinberg, chief marketing officer at Mount Sinai Health System in Read More

7 Smart Podcasts for Healthcare Marketers

March 20, 2019

What is it about podcasts that makes the good ones so fun to listen to? Here’s what we think: It’s the same reason you wind up sitting in your parked car, having arrived at your destination, so you can hear the end of a great story on NPR. It’s real. It’s in-depth. It’s not just Read More

Align Your Technology Goals with Customer Demands

March 13, 2019

Digital experience isn’t just digital anymore. It’s not enough to build a great new website, or launch a mobile app. Your digital initiatives have to connect with and support the entire customer experience. That’s what consumers have grown to expect. It’s not good enough to optimize some parts of the customer journey for the 21st Read More

What Is Digital Transformation?

March 5, 2019

Ask the Expert, with Chris Riegger, COO, Modea // By Jane Weber Brubaker // Digital experience isn’t just digital anymore. It’s not enough to build a great new website, or launch a mobile app. Your digital initiatives have to connect with and support the entire customer experience. That’s what consumers have grown to expect. It’s Read More

Blurred Lines: Marketing and Ethics in the Brave New World, Part 2

March 1, 2019

// By Daniel Fell // The following article is Part 2 of a 2-part series. (Read Part 1 here). The series was adapted from the panel presentation Blurred Lines: Marketing and Ethics in the Brave New World held at the 2018 Healthcare Internet Conference (HCIC) in Scottsdale, Arizona. Panel members include Karen Corrigan, founder and Read More

Was Your Healthcare Website Hit by the Medic Update to Google’s Search Algorithm? Here Are 3 Ways to Recover

February 28, 2019

// By Ramya Sriram // In August 2018, Google made an update to its core search algorithm that affected thousands of websites worldwide. The update was nicknamed “Medic” after Barry Schwartz, CEO of New York-based web services firm RustyBrick, reported that more than 41 percent of the websites impacted were healthcare-related.   The update aimed to Read More

Podcast Picks

February 27, 2019

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // What is it about podcasts that makes the good ones so fun to listen to? Here’s what I think: It’s the same reason you wind up sitting in your parked car, having arrived at your destination, so you can hear the end of a great story on NPR. It’s Read More

Is there a Place for AI in the Healthcare Consumer Experience?

February 27, 2019

The Innovators, Walter Isaacson’s follow-up to his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, is a history of the development of computers and the internet, and the creative minds behind them. The book closes with a chapter about artificial intelligence (AI) and a discussion of whether it will ever be equal to human intelligence. In the end, Read More

Is Healthcare Ready for AI-Enabled EQ?

February 26, 2019

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // The Innovators, Walter Isaacson’s follow-up to his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, is a history of the development of computers and the internet, and the creative minds behind them. The book closes with a chapter about artificial intelligence (AI) and a discussion of whether it will ever be equal Read More

How Location Details Optimize Your Digital Strategy

February 20, 2019

Do you include your facility locations as a component of your organization’s digital strategy? If not, you could be sacrificing market share.  With a growing number of Americans turning to their mobile phones to search for healthcare providers in their area, it’s more important than ever that your website content be optimized to allow people Read More

How To Personalize Your Site Without Going Too Far

February 13, 2019

When talking about healthcare provider websites, the word “personalization” will give most people pause. With today’s heightened awareness around patient privacy and HIPAA, how can a healthcare provider effectively personalize a website without going too far? This was a question Main Line Health faced in 2015-2016 when it took on a website redesign project. The Read More

What Healthcare Can Learn from Digital Retail Brands

February 6, 2019

The latest technologies provide consumers with an array of conveniences — from the ability to summon a ride with a click of their phone to ordering fast food online and having it delivered right to their door. As these types of experiences increasingly become the norm, healthcare marketers are being pressed to find new ways Read More

Incorporating Location Details into Your Digital Strategy Leads More People to Your Door

February 1, 2019

4 Key Insights from UNC Health Care User Experience Audits — Plus 7 Tips for Your Location Strategy Success // By Lisa D. Ellis // Do you include your facility locations as a component of your organization’s digital strategy? If not, you could be sacrificing market share.  Growing Opportunities with Mobile Search With a growing number Read More

How Healthcare Organizations Can Adapt Digital Strategies Used by Google, Amazon, and Uber to Solve Problems Throughout the Patient Journey

February 1, 2019

Ask the Expert, with Dan Greenwald, CEO, White Rhino // By Lisa D. Ellis //  The latest technologies provide consumers with an array of conveniences — from the ability to summon a ride with a click of their phone to ordering fast food online and having it delivered right to their door. As these types Read More

How to Create a Personalized Web Experience Without Getting Creepy

January 31, 2019

// By Melanie Graham // When talking about healthcare provider websites, the word “personalization” will give most people pause. With today’s heightened awareness around patient privacy and HIPAA, how can a healthcare provider effectively personalize a website without going too far? This was a question Main Line Health faced in 2015-2016 when it took on Read More

M&A News: Healthgrades Acquires Influence Health

January 31, 2019

Conversation with Rob Draughon, CEO, Healthgrades // By Jane Weber Brubaker // On January 8, Healthgrades announced its acquisition of Influence Health at the 37th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. We spoke with Healthgrades CEO Rob Draughon to hear more about the strategy and plans for the combined portfolio of products and Read More

Marketing Automation Can Help Create Personalized Patient Journeys

January 30, 2019

A prospective patient interested in weight loss surgery finds out your organization holds bariatric surgery seminars. He fills out the online form to attend the upcoming session. Now what? If your organization uses a marketing automation (MA) platform, you have an opportunity to create personalized patient journeys. The use of marketing automation is growing steadily. Read More

How Scripps Health Uses Marketing Automation to Drive Results

January 29, 2019

// By Althea Fung // A prospective patient interested in weight loss surgery finds out your organization holds bariatric surgery seminars. He fills out the online form to attend the upcoming session. Now what? If your organization uses a marketing automation (MA) platform, you have an opportunity to create personalized patient journeys. In a recent Read More

Ochsner Launches Website with Consumers (and CTAs) in Mind

January 23, 2019

We recently spoke with Amber Welch, director of digital content for Ochsner Health System, about Ochsner’s recent efforts in creating its new state-of-the-art website and tracking the results. eHST: How has the consumerization of healthcare impacted Ochsner Health System and how you operate online and through your website? AW: Our online patients expect to find what Read More

A New Tool To Hack-Proof Your Mobile Data

January 16, 2019

A few days ago, a headline popped up: “Marriott Hacking Exposes Data of Up To 500 Million Guests.” Not again. First a health insurance company. Then a credit reporting agency. And now a hotel chain. How does this happen? Where is the weak link that allows major corporations — and their customers — to be Read More

Information Architecture: Keeping Your Website User-Friendly

January 9, 2019

We all have that miscellaneous drawer somewhere in our houses. While the junk drawer seems like a great way to store small, useful household items, in many cases, it’s an ineffective solution to poor organization and hoarding. The same thing happens with websites. It can be hard to figure out a designated home for a Read More

Digital Trends Affecting Healthcare in 2019

January 2, 2019

We asked Chris Boyer, 2018 Healthcare Internet Hall of Fame inductee, director of digital and analytics at University of Minnesota Health and Fairview Health, and host of the touch point podcast to weigh in on digital trends that will affect hospitals and health systems in 2019. Digital transformation is critical for all members of the Read More