Why Privacy-Focused Healthcare Marketing Drives Better Performance

Learn how you can turn your privacy challenges into performance opportunities

Presented January 29, 2026

Your Presenters:

• Nardeep Singh, MSITM, Marketing Technology Manager, Renown Health
• Dave Twichell, Head of Marketing, Freshpaint

Moderated by:

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

You’ll Learn:

• Why privacy compliance is more than a legal requirement; it’s a performance enabler
• How privacy-respecting tracking allows for full-funnel visibility, from ad click to appointment
• Tactics for modern, HIPAA-aligned audience segmentation and campaign targeting
• How performance marketing can prove value when budgets are tight
• Proven methods to rebuild marketing insight without increasing risk

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The Future of Hospital Websites

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

March 9-13, 2026

Hospital and health system websites are evolving faster than ever.

From AI Overviews reshaping search visibility to the rise of composable CMS platforms, digital teams are under pressure to keep pace with consumer expectations, compliance, and ROI demands.

The Future of Hospital Websites Virtual Summit brings together experts and peers for a week of practical, one-hour sessions that explore the strategies, technologies, and governance models you need to build a flexible, patient-centered digital front door.

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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How Intermountain Health Drove a 16 Percent Conversion Rate With Its Orthopedic Campaign

Intermountain Health saw an opportunity to expand its reach and strengthen access to orthopedic services in the Western Colorado market. The system wanted a campaign that would drive awareness, engagement, and appointments. Discover how this smart digital campaign exceeds every goal and offers practical lessons for healthcare marketers.

Programmatic Buying at Scale: How to Align Data, Technology, and Efficiency for Measurable Impact

Matt King delivers a micro masterclass in programmatic buying, revealing how to use data and technology to deliver the right message to the right person at the right time while maintaining privacy and efficiency. You’ll get actionable tips on how to enhance your digital ROI while keeping patient privacy front and center.

Digital Showcase: Intermountain Health Orthopedic Campaign Boosts Appointments

// By Susan Dubuque // Intermountain Health saw an opportunity to expand its reach and strengthen access to orthopedic services in the Western Colorado market. The system wanted a campaign that would drive awareness, engagement, and appointments. Discover how this smart digital campaign exceeds every goal and offers practical lessons for healthcare marketers.

Maximizing Your Programmatic Buy: Turning Data into Digital Impact

// By Susan Dubuque // Matt King delivers a micro masterclass in programmatic buying, revealing how to use data and technology to deliver the right message to the right person at the right time while maintaining privacy and efficiency. You’ll get actionable tips on how to enhance your digital ROI while keeping patient privacy front and center.

Doing More with Less: How Healthcare Marketers Can Win with Privacy-First Strategies and Lean Budgets

Healthcare marketers today operate in a complex environment. While privacy regulations continue to evolve, tech platforms are rapidly changing, and lawsuits remain an ongoing threat. Can privacy management tools enable marketers to ramp up performance? Read on to learn about strategic capabilities that organizations need to stay competitive.

What Sets a Best-in-Class Digital Campaign Apart? Inside the Winning Strategies of Vandalia Health Mon, OSU Wexner Medical Center, and Ochsner Health

Digital marketing leaders from Ochsner Health, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and Vandalia Health Mon share strategies that earned them national recognition for Best Digital Campaign. Learn how these three teams transformed smart digital strategies into measurable business impact.

Navigating Privacy, Performance, and Budget Pressures in Today’s Healthcare Marketing Landscape

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Healthcare marketers today operate in a complex environment. While privacy regulations continue to evolve, tech platforms are rapidly changing, and lawsuits remain an ongoing threat. Can privacy management tools enable marketers to ramp up performance? Read on to learn about strategic capabilities that organizations need to stay competitive.

Transforming Patient Acquisition with AI-Powered Conversation Intelligence

Presented November 18, 2025

Discover how Emory Healthcare and University Hospitals connect the dots between digital touchpoints and phone conversations, creating seamless experiences that drive patient acquisition and retention.

Your Presenters:

• Allyzon Zahorcak, Director, Performance Marketing, Emory Healthcare
• Noah Brooks, Manager of Analytics & Strategy, University Hospitals
• Lyndey Brock, Director of Account Management Health, Healthcare Vertical, Invoca

Moderated by:

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

You’ll Learn:

• How to track call conversions back to the exact ad or keyword that drove them.
• How you can automate bidding strategies and optimize for high-value patient calls.
• How to improve your website by understanding which interactions led to calls.
• How to use digital intent data to route callers to the most qualified agent or care location, improving first-call resolution.

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2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards Honor Outstanding Healthcare Digital Initiatives 

Winners of the 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards were announced on November 9th at an awards presentation held during the Healthcare Internet Conference. More than 270 organizations were recognized for their outstanding work. Winners of Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Distinction awards represent 18 industry classifications, from hospitals and health systems to pharmaceutical firms.

2025 eHealthcare Leadership Award Winners Announced    

// By Susan Dubuque // Winners of the 2025 eHealthcare Leadership Awards were announced on November 9th at an awards presentation held during the Healthcare Internet Conference. More than 270 organizations were recognized for their outstanding work. Winners of Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Distinction awards represent 18 industry classifications, from hospitals and health systems to pharmaceutical firms.

Winning Digital Playbooks: How Three Health Systems Scored Big with Bold Campaign Strategies

// By Susan Dubuque // Digital marketing leaders from Ochsner Health, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and Vandalia Health Mon share strategies that earned them national recognition for Best Digital Campaign. Learn how these three teams transformed smart digital strategies into measurable business impact.

AI as Your Strategy Partner: How Smart Tools Power Human Intelligence in Healthcare Marketing

AI’s ability to analyze large datasets at scale gives marketers “a world of possibilities” for thinking and planning strategically. In this Ask the Expert Q&A, Amanda Herriman discusses how AI is reshaping digital behavior, and why healthcare organizations need to adapt their content strategies for tools like Google’s AI Overviews.

2025 Healthcare Marketing Compliance Survey

The 2025 Healthcare Marketing Compliance Survey provides marketing leaders a snapshot of the state of tracking and privacy compliance for digital marketing in healthcare.

Complete the survey today, and you’ll receive:

• Early access to the survey results once they are fully compiled
• Valuable, exclusive data about the state of healthcare marketing compliance
• A chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card!

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‘Clarity and Control’: 3 Healthcare Marketing Leaders Reveal How to Grow Smarter, Not Louder

In a recent webinar, three marketing leaders took the conversation about customer growth up a notch — from patient acquisition tactics and media spend to what should be the heart of effective strategies. Learn how they view the challenges and opportunities of growth, where to focus efforts, and how to grow smarter.

Mount Sinai and University of Maryland Medical Center Lead with High-Impact Integrated Campaigns

With countless media channels to choose from, shrinking budgets, and growing demands for measurable results, today’s healthcare marketing professionals face increasing challenges in developing and implementing integrated marketing campaigns. Discover how marketing teams at Mount Sinai and the University of Maryland Medical Center built high-impact integrated campaigns — from concept to acclaim.

How AI Enhances Human Marketing Intelligence in Healthcare

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // AI’s ability to analyze large datasets at scale gives marketers “a world of possibilities” for thinking and planning strategically. In this Ask the Expert Q&A, Amanda Herriman discusses how AI is reshaping digital behavior, and why healthcare organizations need to adapt their content strategies for tools like Google’s AI Overviews.

The Future of Hospital Websites: Navigating AI, Search, UX, and the Shift to Composable Architecture

Presented September 3, 2025

Your Presenters:

• Michael Kinkaid, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Reason One
• Laura Housholder, Digital Marketing Manager, Children’s Nebraska
• Martha van Berkel, co-founder and CEO, Schema App
• Tyler Pierce, Director of Digital Engagement, Rochester Regional Health
• Tara Nooteboom, Director of Consumer Digital Strategy, UCI Health

Moderated by:

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

Join us as our panelists explore how you can:

• Develop a strategic approach to website transformation that aligns technology choices with organizational goals and patient needs
• Make smart platform decisions by understanding the real differences between major platforms and when composable solutions make sense
• Build flexible foundations using composable architecture to future-proof your investment and enable rapid adaptation
• Implement AI thoughtfully with clear use cases that enhance rather than complicate the patient experience, from intelligent search to automated scheduling to personalized content delivery
• Improve findability and discoverability through advanced SEO, schema markup, and optimizing for how patients now search using generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI overviews
• Create governance models that balance innovation with security, compliance, and the need for strategic oversight

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Access, Experience, and Market Intelligence Drive Strategic Growth

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // In a recent webinar, three marketing leaders took the conversation about customer growth up a notch — from patient acquisition tactics and media spend to what should be the heart of effective strategies. Learn how they view the challenges and opportunities of growth, where to focus efforts, and how to grow smarter.

Conference Preview: HCIC 2025 Heats Up in Las Vegas

We asked people who have supported HCIC for many years what makes it such a valuable conference that they keep coming back year after year. Here, we share their comments and highlight sessions you won’t want to miss. Join healthcare marketing leaders and innovators, November 9-12 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.

Go All In on Digital Marketing Success at HCIC 2025

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // We asked people who have supported HCIC for many years what makes it such a valuable conference that they keep coming back year after year. Here, we share their comments and highlight sessions you won’t want to miss. Join healthcare marketing leaders and innovators, November 9-12 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.

Behind the Best: How Top Health Systems Designed Award-Winning Integrated Campaigns

// By Susan Dubuque // With countless media channels to choose from, shrinking budgets, and growing demands for measurable results, today’s healthcare marketing professionals face increasing challenges in developing and implementing integrated marketing campaigns. Discover how marketing teams at Mount Sinai and the University of Maryland Medical Center built high-impact integrated campaigns — from concept to acclaim.

Behind the Best: How Top Health Systems Designed Award-Winning Integrated Campaigns

Presented July 16, 2025

Panelists:

• Stephanie Wierwille, Executive Vice President of Engagement, BPD
• Jessie L. Pulsipher, Marketing and Communications Manager, University of Maryland Medical Center
• Wendi Chason, Assistant Vice President of Marketing, Mount Sinai

Moderator:

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

Here is what you can expect:

• Discover the future of brand and healthcare storytelling — including shifts in audience behavior, AI, and tech.
• Learn ways to create bold, transformational programs that build health system brands.
• Gain actionable strategies and fresh ideas to elevate your advertising and connect more effectively with your audiences.
• Hear behind-the-scenes insights from two eHealthcare Leadership Award winners in the Best Integrated Marketing Campaign category.
• Learn how a product-specific campaign drove measurable results and stood out in a competitive landscape.
• See how a brand campaign built trust, recognition, and engagement across multiple platforms.
• Get inspired by real-world examples that blend creative storytelling with smart strategy.
• Walk away with practical tips you can apply to your own campaigns — whether you’re launching a new service or reinforcing your brand.

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10 signs your agency is mismanaging your paid search campaigns

A free white paper, published by Fathom

One of the most common ways we begin supporting hospitals and health systems is by conducting detailed audits of their campaign strategy, structure, and results to uncover opportunities to improve performance and maximize the impact of every dollar in market. And, without fail, we find budget mismanagement.

Our digital advertising specialists have compiled some of the biggest red flags to watch for, the significance of those issues, and the specific actions you can take to remedy them.

We’ve organized these ten warning signs into five categories:

• Campaign Strategy and Structure: Overly General Campaign Structure
• Targeting Fundamentals: Spending Budget Outside Target Geography
• Optimization and Execution: Stagnant Change History Signals Lack of Optimization
• Tracking and Compliance: Non-Compliant Conversion Tracking
• Spend-draining Campaign Defaults: Google Search Partners Enabled

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