Tools and Digital Platforms

Traffic Risks: Next Steps for Tracking Pixels and HIPAA Compliance

Christie-Elaine

Digital marketing got a lot riskier when HHS rolled out its “Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates” bulletin last December. What steps should you take to manage the risks? // By Elaine Christie // Change often feels like the only constant in the world of healthcare marketing. And oh, Read More

Finding The Perfect Match: Building a Provider Finder That Delivers Results

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Download this new free case study to learn how Scripps Health took its provider search from good to great.

You’ll learn:

  • Why Scripps Health felt that a custom solution would help them put patients’ needs first
  • The key elements of a great provider search experience
  • How to integrate marketing and referral campaigns into the care search experience
  • How data from scheduled appointments can influence strategic decisionmaking — and why this makes the ability to share this data crucially important
  • And much more!

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Answering the Call for Growth Through Data-Enabled Solutions

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Never before has the role of the healthcare marketing leader been more crucial to health system performance. Following waves of COVID, the resulting depletion of both operational capacity and emotional stamina forced health systems to grapple with the brutal combination of rising costs and diminishing access. The ensuing reductions in staffing and closing of services Read More

Solving the HIPAA Conundrum

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// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Can healthcare marketers leverage tracking technologies the way they used to without risking noncompliance? When HHS stepped on the gas last December — issuing ominous warnings about HIPAA, tracking pixels, and PHI — healthcare marketers and legal and compliance teams put the brakes on fast. But some organizations had Read More

Digital Ethnography Sheds New Light on Online Patient Behavior

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How well do you really understand your target audience? Whether that’s patients, prospective employees, donors, or any other stakeholders you want to reach and influence, it’s easy to make incorrect assumptions about why they behave the way they do. In the digital realm, social listening tools help organizations hear what people say online, and analyze Read More

A Data-Enabled Approach to Patient and Referral Growth

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Contemporary solutions leveraging AI, big data, and proven customer platforms provide a breakthrough opportunity for health system growth when it is most needed. When data and technology are used to view patient and provider behavior in the market holistically, new opportunities come to light. // By Rich Phillips // Never before has the role of Read More

What Is Digital Ethnography, and Why Should You Use It?

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Ask the Expert, with Dean Browell, Chief Behavioral Officer at Feedback  “We want to know if there’s a gap between what they’re saying when you’re courting them from a survey standpoint, versus what they’re actually doing out in the wild.”  // By Jane Weber Brubaker // How well do you really understand your target audience? Read More

HCIC 2023 Preview: Come for the Comradery, Leave with Fresh Inspiration

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This year in Los Angeles. Last year in Miami. HCIC spans the country the same way it covers the digital healthcare landscape — coast to coast and end to end. #HCIC23, the latest edition of the must-attend conference for digital healthcare marketers, promises to showcase the industry’s best practices and get attendees up to speed Read More

See You in the City of Angels, Changemakers!

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// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Join your industry peers for the annual gathering of digital innovators at HCIC in Los Angeles, November 5-8. This year in Los Angeles. Last year in Miami. HCIC spans the country the same way it covers the digital healthcare landscape — coast to Read More

How Beacon Health System Leverages Content to Drive Online Appointments

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// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Relationships are everything when it comes to data. Defining those relationships is what humans do best; scaling is what machines do best. If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times: Content is king. But content on its own — even expert, authoritative, and trustworthy content — Read More

Can AI Technology Help Prevent Gun Violence at Hospitals?

Sam Alaimo

Any location can become the scene of mass carnage — even a hospital. An AI-powered technology solution that aims to prevent deadly incidents has recently caught the attention of hospitals and health systems looking to improve the safety of patients and providers. Providers in U.S. hospitals have to deal with the results of gun violence Read More

Navigating the AI Road Ahead: 5 Themes From MAICON 2023

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With AI in full swing, healthcare marketers must learn to navigate a whole new world of challenges, opportunities, and uncertainty. We asked Amanda Todorovich, executive director of digital marketing at Cleveland Clinic, to share her impressions from Marketing AI Institute’s annual conference, MAICON 2023, held July 26-28. Here’s what she said: “Artificial Intelligence (AI) is Read More

Preventing Mass Shootings Through AI

Jeff Hill

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Any location can become the scene of mass carnage — even a hospital. Providers in U.S. hospitals have to deal with the results of gun violence all too often when victims of mass shootings are brought to their ERs for lifesaving treatment — if those patients are fortunate enough Read More

Embracing the AI Revolution: Key Takeaways for Healthcare Marketers from MAICON 2023

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// By Amanda Todorovich //  We asked Amanda Todorovich, executive director of digital marketing at Cleveland Clinic, to share her impressions from Marketing AI Institute’s annual conference, MAICON 2023, held July 26-28. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, and it took over the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland last month for the 2023 Marketing Artificial Intelligence Read More

The Wild West of AI: Opportunities Abound, But Proceed with Caution

Sujal Raju

Have large language models like ChatGPT finally catapulted us into a world where machines and humans can work collaboratively, each doing what suits them best? The conventional wisdom is that we should all “work at the top of our license” — whatever that is in our own context — spending less time on repetitive, rote Read More

5 Major Risks AI Poses for Healthcare

Chris Hemphill

Boston Children’s recently posted a job description for an AI prompt engineer to join its Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator. The ideal candidate needs a “strong background in AI/ML, data science, and natural language processing, as well as experience in healthcare research and operations.” This came only months after the November 2022 release of ChatGPT, Read More

What Drives Success for Today’s Healthcare Digital Teams?

Margo Schneider

As digital teams take on more and more strategic responsibilities, leaders step forward to complement staff they have in place by recruiting additional talent and collaborating closely with strategy, information systems, and clinical operations to help achieve success and establish more rigorous leadership development. Three panelists presented on the digital teams of the future at Read More

Is ChatGPT Safe for Healthcare?

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// By Wendy Margolin // Four healthcare leaders discuss opportunities, risks, and possible pitfalls. Boston Children’s recently posted a job description for an AI prompt engineer to join its Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator. The ideal candidate needs a “strong background in AI/ML, data science, and natural language processing, as well as experience in healthcare Read More

The Digital Team of the Future

Pamela Landis

// By Dalal Haldeman, Ph.D. // Leaders from Hackensack Meridian Health, UW Medicine, and RUSH compare notes on what it takes to push digital transformation forward in their organizations. As digital teams take on more and more strategic responsibilities, leaders step forward to complement staff they have in place by recruiting additional talent and collaborating Read More

How to Maximize Clinic Capacity by Leveraging CRM

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“What does deep-sea fishing have in common with CRM?” asks Craig Kartchner, AVP of marketing and customer experience at HonorHealth. In a new article, he explores the unexpected parallels between the two and discusses how healthcare marketers can leverage CRM to maximize clinic capacity. He describes the scenario like this: “Years ago, a friend of Read More

Trendwatch: New Research Examines the Latest Digital Customer Experience Trends in Marketing

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In an era of heightened patient expectations and evolving consumer behaviors, the digital customer experience has emerged as a critical component in healthcare marketing, playing a pivotal role in delivering personalized care, enhancing patient satisfaction, and driving organizational growth. Slowly but surely, leaders of healthcare organizations are recognizing the strategic value that marketing brings to Read More

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