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Governance Models That Work: How 3 Leading Health Systems Align Marketing with Strategic Goals

November 29, 2024

Without a unified governance framework to guide marketing, organizations risk sending mixed messages, squandering resources, and failing to engage patients and employees and fulfill the organizational mission. Explore how three health systems use tailored governance models to align marketing efforts with strategic goals, ensuring consistent brand messaging and effective return on investments.

Unified Marketing Governance: Lessons from Leading Health Systems

November 18, 2024

// By Marcos Irigaray // Without a unified governance framework to guide marketing, organizations risk sending mixed messages, squandering resources, and failing to engage patients and employees and fulfill the organizational mission. Explore how three health systems use tailored governance models to align marketing efforts with strategic goals, ensuring consistent brand messaging and effective return on investments.

Centralized Governance Enhances Digital Strategy at UCI Health and Stanford Health Care

August 1, 2024

Tara Nooteboom, director of Consumer Digital Strategy at UCI Health

Alignment is hard to come by in complex organizations like hospitals and health systems. But progress is possible when stakeholders come together and make decisions collaboratively. Find out how governance groups function in two organizations, how they work through conflicts and set priorities, and improve conversions.

Advancing a Unified, Centralized Strategic Approach to Patient-Centered Communication at UCI Health and Stanford Health Care

June 28, 2024

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Alignment is hard to come by in complex organizations like hospitals and health systems. But progress is possible when stakeholders come together and make decisions collaboratively. Find out how governance groups function in two organizations, how they work through conflicts and set priorities, and improve conversions.

Discover How Top Health Systems Leverage Enterprise-Wide Collaboration to Drive Growth

June 6, 2024

Skip Hidlay The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center

A focused, bidirectional collaboration between health system call centers and marketing teams is critical to ensuring positive customer experiences that deliver on the brand promise and ultimately drive organizational targets for growth and revenue. Too often, health system marketing and Access teams operate separately and don’t align to create the best customer service journey. This Read More

25 Years of Celebrating Excellence: eHealthcare Leadership Awards are Open

May 6, 2024

// By Susan Dubuque // This year marks the silver anniversary of the eHealthcare Leadership Awards. Join us as we celebrate 25 years of industry innovation and honor your accomplishments from the past year. The eHealthcare Leadership Awards recognize outstanding health websites and digital initiatives. The Call for Entries is officially open!

A Critical Partnership: How Aligning Marketing and Access Maximizes Brand Value and Revenue

April 29, 2024

David Feinberg, SVP, chief marketing and communications officer, Mount Sinai Health System

// By Linda MacCracken and Jane Weber Brubaker // A focused, bidirectional collaboration between health system call centers and marketing teams is critical to ensuring positive customer experiences that deliver on the brand promise and ultimately drive organizational targets for growth and revenue. But done right, all of these problems can be avoided.

Advertising Showcase: Baptist Health’s “Living Proof” Integrated Marketing Campaign

March 11, 2024

Each month, Strategic Health Care Marketing Advertising Showcase will feature challenges, tactics, and outcomes of a multimedia advertising campaign — offering you strategic and creative insights from some of the nation’s leading hospitals, health systems, and health-related organizations. “Living Proof” Integrated Marketing Campaign Opportunity What do you do when your state has the highest cancer Read More

Data-Driven Media Planning: How to Optimize Your Strategy

January 4, 2024

Maggie Checinski, director, integrated media, SPM Marketing and Communications

The continued growth in channels makes precision media buying more important than ever. Today, consumers have a seemingly endless array of media options to choose from, causing many health care marketers to ask: “How should I allocate my limited budget to maximize the effectiveness of media buying?” It’s a crucial question that will often determine Read More

How Health Care Organizations Can Use Media Data to Effectively Target Market

December 18, 2023

The continued growth in channels makes precision media buying more important than ever. // By Brian Griffin // Today, consumers have a seemingly endless array of media options to choose from, causing many health care marketers to ask: “How should I allocate my limited budget to maximize the effectiveness of media buying?” It’s a crucial Read More

How a Data-Driven Media Strategy Can Deliver Cost-Effective Results

November 2, 2023

Andrea Becker, senior director, marketing, WellSpan Health

Last year, Central Pennsylvania-based WellSpan Health established two major goals to combat breast cancer and strengthen the health system’s market position: 1) heighten awareness of breast care services, and 2) increase mammography screenings. These relatively common goals for health care organizations are often supported by the same time-worn tactics that marketers have used for years Read More

Data-Driven Approach to Media Planning for WellSpan Health’s Breast Cancer Initiatives Delivers Cost-Effective Precision Marketing

October 23, 2023

Thorough research identified target audiences and pinpointed their media of choice. // By Brian Griffin // Last year, Central Pennsylvania-based WellSpan Health established two major goals to combat breast cancer and strengthen the health system’s market position: 1) heighten awareness of breast care services, and 2) increase mammography screenings. These relatively common goals for health Read More

How to Stand Out in a Crowded Market? Lessons From Emory Healthcare’s Rebranding Success

September 14, 2023

Amy Comeau, vice president of marketing, Emory Healthcare

Emory Healthcare’s rebranding initiatives enable the health system to stand out in Atlanta’s crowded market. Emory’s success should serve as an example for other hospitals and health systems looking to develop a successful rebranding strategy and drive growth. There are hospitals and health systems with reputations verging on veneration. But for all the world-renowned research Read More

Emory Healthcare’s World-Class Reputation Defined It — and That Was a Problem

September 4, 2023

Shannon Curran, president, SPM Marketing & Communications

The Atlanta academic medical center had to figure out how to convince patients that, while it takes care of the sickest of the sick, it also provides routine medical care. // By Ron Shinkman // There are hospitals and health systems with reputations verging on veneration. But for all the world-renowned research and medical breakthroughs Read More

Is Nonprofit Status Still an Advantage for Hospitals? 3 Experts Weigh In

July 6, 2023

Hans Eckardt, marketing strategist and former corporate vice president of marketing and strategic communications for SCAN Health Plan

One of the oldest and truest axioms in consumer advertising is that the most successful and persuasive messaging finds a way to turn a feature into a benefit. Nowhere is this on greater display than in health care, and smart public relations professionals have known this for years. The fact that your hospital operates a Read More

What Does It Even Mean to Be a “Nonprofit” Hospital Anymore?

June 26, 2023

Ross K. Goldberg is president of Kevin/Ross Public Relations

While traditional wisdom once held that nonprofit hospitals maintain a firm advantage over for-profit hospitals, the tides seem to be turning. // By Ross K. Goldberg // One of the oldest and truest axioms in consumer advertising is that the most successful and persuasive messaging finds a way to turn a feature into a benefit. Read More

Tips to Reduce Stigma in Your Health Care Marketing

December 22, 2022

Melissa Fors, Vice President of Marketing Strategy, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Let’s talk about something that often isn’t talked about enough in the health care industry: health care stigma. But more specifically, the role marketing can play in impacting social stigma around medical conditions. If you’re embarrassed by your medical diagnosis, you will probably keep it hidden. You may not seek help, or if you do, Read More

Health Care Marketers’ Critical Role in Reducing Health Care Stigma

December 14, 2022

The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation and the American Lung Association found success by focusing on the positive. // By Cheryl L. Serra // If you’re embarrassed by your medical diagnosis, you will probably keep it hidden. You may not seek help, or if you do, you may find under-the-radar, less-credentialed and less-qualified people. You likely Read More

Health Care Brand Journalism Campaign Emphasizes Authenticity and Community Engagement

September 29, 2022

Don Stanziano, chief marketing and communications officer, Geisinger

We’re all storytellers these days. Well-told stories have the power to influence behaviors and decisions. We tend to “lend an ear” to our neighbors. Community experiences matter, which is why tapping former patients from small towns and cities across a vast geographic service area made perfect sense to Geisinger for its health care brand journalism Read More

No Scripts, No Actors, No Sets: Geisinger’s Anti-Hollywood Video Approach to Brand Journalism

September 15, 2022

Patients speak from the heart about their health care experience at Geisinger in unscripted videos shot from their hometown. “What’s more powerful than that?” asks the health system’s marketing chief. // By Marcia Simon, APR // We’re all storytellers these days. Well-told stories have the power to influence behaviors and decisions. We tend to “lend Read More

What is the Role of Marketing in Driving Growth for a Health Care Organization?

July 21, 2022

Sandra Mackey, Chief Marketing Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health

“Growth means different things to different organizations at different times,” says Daniel Fell of Optum. “One thing is very clear, though. The role of marketing has never been more critical.” Here’s an excerpt from Fell’s new article: We recently turned to several leading health care marketers across the country, representing a variety of health care Read More

The Growth Imperative, Part Two: Leading Health Care Marketers Weigh In on the Real Role of Marketing

June 26, 2022

Jason Brown, CEO and chief strategy officer, Brown Parker & DeMarinis Advertising

// By Daniel Fell // Growth means different things to different organizations at different times. One thing is very clear, though. The role of marketing has never been more critical. In part one of our feature series on health system growth, The Growth Imperative and Why Marketers Must Lead, we explored why growth is essential Read More

MarTech Is Moving Fast

January 27, 2022

Tom Hileman, CEO and president, Hileman Group

Marketing technology (MarTech) is changing fast. How fast? Twenty percent of MarTech innovations available today didn’t even exist in 2016, according to Tom Hileman, CEO and president of the Hileman Group. In health care, Hileman says conversational marketing technology and marketing compliance platforms lead the way with 70 percent growth over the past five years. Read More

Three Top Health System Marketers Share the Latest Trends in MarTech

December 28, 2021

Paul Matsen, chief marketing and communications officer, Cleveland Clinic

// By Brian Griffin // The growth of MarTech is revolutionizing health care marketing. In this article, you will learn how marketing experts at leading health systems use the latest MarTech tools to communicate more effectively with key audiences, grow patient volumes, and demonstrate marketing’s value to the C-suite. Marketing technology (MarTech) is changing fast. Read More

Strategies for Making Vaccine Mandates Work

December 23, 2021

With the ongoing public health threat posed by COVID-19, a growing number of hospitals, health systems, and medical groups are adopting employee vaccine mandates. The opposition this has generated among some groups of medical workers and the general public make crafting mandate communications and messaging critically important for health care marketers. At Geisinger Health in Read More

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