How to Reveal Where Demand Gets Lost: Build Campaigns Backward from Care

// By Christine Blanchette and Lisa Bevere // Healthcare marketers often capture demand at the moment something in a person’s life creates a need for care. Learn how reverse engineering the patient journey can shed light on where patients and prospective patients drop out, and what you can do to increase their chances of successfully finding care.

Proving Marketing ROI Without Compromising Patient Privacy

ROI & Performance Marketing Week Day 5 Session 1

Presented Sept, 18, 2026

Panelists:

• Amanda Todorovich, FACHE, Executive Director of Digital Marketing, Cleveland Clinic
• Jessica Holton, Co-Founder, Ours Privacy

Moderated by:

• Kyle Hardner, Contributing Writer, Plain-English Health Care

You’ll learn:

• How to measure marketing’s impact on patient acquisition and revenue without exposing PHI.
• What a privacy-first data infrastructure looks like and how it can restore visibility into the patient journey.
• Practical steps for aligning marketing, legal, and compliance around measurement

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From Data Silos to Marketing ROI: What Healthcare Marketers Can Measure Today

ROI & Performance Marketing Week Day 4

Presented Sept, 17, 2026

Panelists:

• Bill Balderaz, CEO and founder, Futurety
• Shondria N. Covington, MBA, MS, AVP, Marketing and Digital Experience, Morehouse School of Medicine
• Dan Lavelle, VP of System Marketing, Geisinger
• Valerie Monet, Strategic Marketing Executive, Sutter Health

Moderated by:

• Therese Lockemy, Founder and CEO, Inner Path Digital, L.L.C

Join us as our panelists explore how you can:

• Connect campaigns and digital interactions more clearly to leads, appointments, patient acquisition, and business performance.
• Determine what you can confidently measure today and where important gaps remain.
• Identify when existing data is enough to take action and where stronger integrations or additional data can add value.
• Revisit assumptions about privacy, EHR access, and technology requirements that may be holding measurement efforts back.
• Make practical progress without waiting for a complete CRM, data infrastructure, or technology stack.
• Understand how emerging discovery channels are changing traditional attribution models.
• Explore how AEO, GEO, and AI are creating both new measurement opportunities and new gaps.
• Use AI-assisted reporting and analysis to surface insights faster and support better marketing decisions.

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Prove It: Connecting Marketing Performance to Business Results

ROI & Performance Marketing Week Day 3

Presented Sept, 16, 2026

Panelists

• Jamie Mermelstein, Vice President, Digital Experience, Unlock Health
• Matt Eaves, Vice President, Digital Marketing, University Hospitals

Moderated by:

• Susan Dubuque, Contributing Editor, Strategic Health Care Marketing and Co-Chair, 2026 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Connect marketing activity to appointments, patients, and revenue.
• Build an attribution model that reflects how patients actually find and schedule care.
• Use existing data and technology to strengthen ROI measurement.
• Build the cross-functional partnerships needed to prove marketing’s impact.
• Translate marketing performance into results that matter to the C-suite.

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From Cost Center to Growth Engine: How CFOs and CMOs Agree on Marketing ROI

ROI & Performance Marketing Week Day 1 Opening Keynote

Presented September 14, 2026

Panelists:

• Opeyemi Oluwole, SVP, Chief Marketing Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health
• Jeremy Rogers, Vice President of Marketing and Digital Transformation, Beacon Health System
• Ray Mina, CEO, Freshpaint

Moderated by:

• Jane Weber Brubaker, Executive Editor, Plain-English Health Care

You’ll learn:

• How marketing and finance teams are learning to speak the same language and align around the metrics that matter most.
• How to establish verifiable marketing ROI.
• How leading healthcare organizations move beyond channel metrics toward enterprise-wide accountability.
• How privacy-first data strategies enable better measurement and stronger executive decision-making.
• Where healthcare marketing measurement is headed, and what marketing leaders should prioritize over the next 12-24 months.

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Focus on Digital Front Door: Many Access Points, One Connected Patient Experience

The digital front door is no longer a single access point. As patients move between health system websites, search, social media, and other digital touchpoints, marketers need to create connected experiences that make it easier for consumers to find care. In this report, you’ll learn how leading health systems are rethinking the digital front door.

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Aligning CRM with Marketing Strategy: Building Stronger Partnerships and Better Results

Presented August 26, 2026

Panelists:

• Orla Seidel, Director, CRM & Digital Marketing, Atlantic Health
• Rachel M. Totaro, MBA, Director, Digital Strategy, FMOL Health
• Jerry Hobbs, President and co-founder, Prairie Dog
• Laura Lee Jones, Founder and CEO, LionShare

Moderated by:

• Therese Lockemy, Founder and CEO, Inner Path Digital, L.L.C

Join us as our panelists explore how you can:

• Connect CRM priorities to broader marketing, brand, growth, and patient engagement goals.
• Create shared goals across marketing, CRM, digital, data, IT, operations, and clinical teams.
• Clarify roles, responsibilities, decision-making, and workflows across teams.
• Identify high-value CRM use cases, including patient acquisition, retention, reactivation, audience profiling, and service line growth.
• Use CRM insights to better understand patient populations, market opportunities, and campaign audiences.

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Closing the Data Gaps: How Healthcare Marketers Can Balance Performance, Privacy, and HIPAA Compliance

Compliance regulations make digital ad tracking more difficult, but not impossible. Leaders from Ours Privacy and WelbeHealth explore recent research and offer practical use cases for healthcare marketers. Learn how marketers reach the right audience without compromising on compliance.

Focus on CRM: How Health Systems Build an Enterprise Strategy for Patient Engagement that Drives Measurable Business Impact

CRM is becoming an enterprise capability that connects marketing strategy with patient needs. In this new report, we explore how health systems use CRM to support the patient journey. You’ll find valuable insights that will help you build a more connected CRM strategy that strengthens patient engagement and delivers strategic benefit for your organization.

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How AdventHealth Personalizes the Digital Experience Without Compromising Privacy

Navigate to the AdventHealth website for the first time and you’ll find images and content that apply to any healthcare consumer. But the moment you click on a specific service line or blog, that experience starts to change. Learn how AdventHealth uses CRM to personalize the consumer journey without compromising HIPAA regulations.

From MarTech Sprawl to Strategy: How Atlantic Health and UNC Health Build a Connected Ecosystem

Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in marketing technology, yet many marketing teams still struggle with disconnected systems, fragmented data, and growing pressure to demonstrate business value. Learn how healthcare organizations connect existing technology, data, and teams to provide the foundation for stronger governance, better patient experiences, and more meaningful measurement.

How Marketers Track the Patient Journey Without Compromising Compliance

// By Kyle Hardner // Compliance regulations make digital ad tracking more difficult, but not impossible. Leaders from Ours Privacy and WelbeHealth explore recent research and offer practical use cases for healthcare marketers. Learn how marketers reach the right audience without compromising on compliance.

CRM and the Competitive Advantage of Privacy-First Personalization

// By Wendy Margolin // Navigate to the AdventHealth website for the first time and you’ll find images and content that apply to any healthcare consumer. But the moment you click on a specific service line or blog, that experience starts to change. Learn how AdventHealth uses CRM to personalize the consumer journey without compromising HIPAA regulations.

Where Digital Experience Meets Patient Expectations

A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends member roundtable featuring winners from the 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

Presented August 4, 2026

Panelists:

• Ben Dillon, CEO, Geonetric
• Seth Carnes, senior digital marketing specialist, Bryan Health
• Lissa Richards, senior director, digital experience, WellSpan Health

Moderator:

• Susan Dubuque, Contributing Editor, eHealthcare Strategy & Trends and Co-Chair, 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

Here are some of the topics that will be covered:

• Key drivers of award-winning digital patient experiences
• Practical strategies that moved the needle
• Common challenges and how leaders overcame them
• What’s next for digital patient experience

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Building a Better Healthcare MarTech Ecosystem: How Healthcare Teams Move Beyond Stack Sprawl

// By Therese Lockemy, MBA // Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in marketing technology, yet many marketing teams still struggle with disconnected systems, fragmented data, and growing pressure to demonstrate business value. Learn how healthcare organizations connect existing technology, data, and teams to provide the foundation for stronger governance, better patient experiences, and more meaningful measurement.

What Does It Take to Achieve Healthcare CRM Maturity Across the Enterprise?

Leaders from Emory Healthcare and HonorHealth, along with CRM experts from LionShare and Kelly Faley Consulting, share practical lessons on how healthcare organizations can personalize communications more thoughtfully, govern messaging across teams, and measure CRM performance in ways leaders understand.

Turning CRM into an Enterprise Growth Strategy, Part 2: Personalization, Governance, and ROI

// By Therese Lockemy, MBA // Leaders from Emory Healthcare and HonorHealth, along with CRM experts from LionShare and Kelly Faley Consulting, share practical lessons on how healthcare organizations can personalize communications more thoughtfully, govern messaging across teams, and measure CRM performance in ways leaders understand.

ROI & Performance Marketing Week

A virtual summit for healthcare marketers and digital strategists from eHealthcare Strategy & Trends

September 14-18, 2026

Hospital and health system marketing leaders must prove measurable ROI.

In today’s financially challenging environment, leaders in healthcare organizations scrutinize budgets and demand evidence that marketing investments drive profitability and growth.

The ROI & Performance Marketing Week will deliver a week of focused, one-hour sessions presenting strategies for proving the measurable impact of marketing and advertising. From brand awareness campaigns and physician referral strategies to targeted digital outreach, healthcare marketing experts will show how they connect spend with return, and how they position themselves as strategic partners at the leadership table.

Join us for a full week of programming for marketing and digital leaders at hospitals, health systems, and other healthcare provider organizations.

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Still Flying Blind? How Privacy can Power Performance for Healthcare Marketing

Presented July 15, 2026

A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends webinar with insights from Ours Privacy

Your Presenters:

• Jessica Holton, CEO and Co-Founder, Ours Privacy
• Jonathan Papp, Senior Director of Marketing, WelbeHealth

Moderated by:

• Kyle Hardner, Contributing Writer, Plain English Health Care

You’ll learn:

• What marketers are saying about the gap between compliance confidence and actual capabilities.
• How to move toward tracking the full patient journey compliantly, and where most marketers get stuck.
• How one health company navigated the post-OCR environment and rebuilt its martech stack.
• Practical next steps for moving from a patchwork of tools to a more unified approach.
• The future of marketing compliance in the era of AI.

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Beyond the Dashboard: Building an AI-Native Attribution Stack for Healthcare

AI in Healthcare Marketing June 2026 Day 4 Session 1

Presented June 18, 2026 at 1 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

• Matt Lee, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Strategy Collective
• Lina Soliman, Director of Omni-Channel Strategy, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
• Kelsey Linden, VP, Commercial Excellence, Shore Capital Partners

Moderated by:

• Therese Lockemy, Founder and CEO, Inner Path Digital, L.L.C

What you’ll learn:

• How to move beyond surface-level dashboards toward more meaningful measurement
• Where traditional attribution breaks down in healthcare
• Real-world examples of AI-driven attribution and measurement running in healthcare organizations today
• How AI can help teams connect data, identify patterns, and improve reporting
• What marketing leaders need to explain performance to finance and executive teams How to think about owned measurement models, governance, and accountability
• How to build a more practical path to proving marketing’s impact on growth and patient engagement

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AI Hallucinations in Healthcare: The Hidden Risk to Your Brand, Compliance, and Patient Trust

AI in Healthcare Marketing June 2026 Day 3 Session 2

Presented June 17, 2026 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

• Stewart Gandolf, CEO, Healthcare Success
• Brandon Schakola, Senior Director, Digital Services, Healthcare Success
• Pansy Lee, Head of Product, inlets.ai
• John Davey, Vice President Marketing Technology, Mount Sinai Health System

Moderated by:

• Jared Johnson, Host, Healthcare Rap Podcast, and eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Editorial Advisory Board Member

You’ll learn how to:

• Understand the causes and implications of AI hallucinations in healthcare, including risks to brand reputation, compliance, and patient trust
• Identify where and how AI may be misrepresenting your organization using emerging monitoring tools and competitive visibility analysis
• Apply practical strategies to reduce hallucinations, improve AI-driven search visibility, and strengthen brand safety in an evolving digital landscape

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Real Work, Real Results: An AI Delivery Lab

AI in Healthcare Marketing June 2026 Day 3 Session 1

Presented June 17, 2026 at 1 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

• Kelly LaBarre, Senior Digital Marketing Manager, Connecticut Children’s
• Matthew Carlson, Senior Director User Experience Design, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
• JC Chakravarty, VP of Strategy and Design, Modea

Moderated by:

• Char Wilson, Principal Consultant, Char Wilson Consulting

You’ll learn how to:

• How to use rapid prototyping and vibe coding to accelerate healthcare website development
• How to build and optimize digital content for AEO and GEO performance
• What Modea’s healthcare digital maturity survey reveals about AI investment levels, consumer perception, and ROI benchmarks
• What it takes to make a healthcare website truly discoverable across AI-powered search and answer engines
• and more.

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Stop chasing AI “shoulds”: a focus-first approach for health system marketers

AI in Healthcare Marketing June 2026 Day 2 Session 1

Presented June 16, 2026 at 1 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

• Luke Farkas, VP of Innovation & AI, Unlock Health
• Daniel Fell, Health Systems Practice Lead, Unlock Health and eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Editorial Advisory Board Member
• Joe McMahon, Vice President, Northwell Health’s Enterprise Change Management team
• Anne Martino, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Children’s Wisconsin

Moderated by:

• Wendy Margolin, Contributing Writer, Plain-English Health Care

After this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain why AI progress is primarily a change-management challenge in hospital marketing and identify the common failure mode of “everything, all at once” prioritization.
• Diagnose their organization’s default AI orientation (what it tends to prioritize and protect) and understand why two health systems can make opposite AI decisions and both be right.
• Assess their team’s AI fluency and translate it into a focused 90-day plan, including what to do now, what to postpone, and what guardrails are required for adoption.

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When AI Becomes How Work Gets Done

AI in Healthcare Marketing June 2026 Day 1 Opening Keynote 

Presented June 15, 2026

Panelists:

• Cristal Woodley, VP, Marketing and Communications, Renown Health
• Taylor Pressler, MPH, MS, Sr. Director of Enterprise Analytics, Renown Health
• Gregg Johnson, CEO, Invoca
• Julia Sorensen, Vice President, Marketing – Market Research and Consumer Insights, Mass General Brigham

Moderated by:

• Jane Weber Brubaker, Executive Editor, Plain-English Health Care

What you’ll learn:

• How leaders are re‑architecting marketing and digital workflows with AI as the default path.
• Examples of a real AI-driven workflow overhaul, from intake to output to governance that you can adapt for your own teams.
• New operating roles and how they plug into existing teams and structures.
• Guardrails that let non‑technical staff build useful agents without creating compliance and security headaches.
• How to measure “AI as normal work” — from throughput gains on content and campaigns to better access, engagement, and conversion.

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Join the Conversation: AI in Healthcare Marketing Week Offers a Practical Roadmap for the AI-Enabled Future

It’s not too late to sign up for AI in Healthcare Marketing Week, eHealthcare Strategy & Trends’ new virtual summit. We offer it at no charge to employees of healthcare provider organizations. Don’t miss this opportunity to hone your AI knowledge and learn how you can bring greater value to your organization.