Integrated Marketing and Compelling Storytelling Bolster UMMC’s Organ Transplantation Program

// By Susan Dubuque // The University of Maryland Medical Center employs a three-tier marketing strategy for its transplant program, using strategic communications for broad reach, targeted digital tactics for mid-funnel engagement, and search campaigns to capture bottom-funnel consumers. Find out how this leading medical center achieves impressive results with a multichannel marketing and communications strategy.

How to Succeed in Health Care Podcasting: Award-Winning Strategies from Top Health Systems

Podcasts are a popular and well-established audio medium used by health care organizations of all sizes to share longer-form content that educates, inspires, entertains, and provides thought leadership to various audiences. Discover secrets of award-winning podcasts from three top organizations and get practical tips to make podcasting vital for your marketing strategy.

Proven: Physicians Prefer Plain-Language Marketing

// By Ahava Leibtag // Plain language is crucial in health care marketing. It’s easier for readers to understand — and act upon — clear communication. But the case for plain language doesn’t apply only to patients. Plain language is just as important in physician marketing. Find out why physicians prefer plain language marketing content over technical jargon.

Engaging, Educating, and Brand-Building: How Top Health Systems Leverage Video to Enhance Their Marketing

For 25 years, the eHealthcare Leadership Awards have celebrated excellence in health care digital marketing. At the 2023 awards, winning videos showcased the power of video to capture attention, evoke emotion, and drive action. Read the full article for expert insights and examples of award-winning videos.

Winning Content Strategies: How Ochsner Health and Ohio State Excel with Premier Content Hubs

Ochsner Health’s and Ohio State’s well-developed content hubs consolidate and showcase their organizational strengths, and as important, provide answers to the questions site visitors search for. Discover highlights of their content journeys and see how their strategies work to attract site visitors and drive organizational success.

Discover the Heartfelt Stories of Kindness that Define South Shore Health’s Unique Brand Positioning

South Shore Hospital, part of South Shore Health, serves hundreds of thousands in the Greater Boston area. To differentiate itself, the marketing team crafted the brand positioning “Your Health, Our Passion, One Community,” reflecting the hospital’s commitment to offering exceptional services and fostering a community-centric healthcare approach.

Winning Strategies for Successful Podcast Marketing

// By Susan Dubuque // Podcasts are a popular and well-established audio medium used by health care organizations of all sizes to share longer-form content that educates, inspires, entertains, and provides thought leadership to various audiences. Discover secrets of award-winning podcasts from three top organizations and get practical tips to make podcasting vital for your marketing strategy.

Best Video Content: Unleashing Video’s Potential in Health Care Marketing

// By Susan Dubuque // For 25 years, the eHealthcare Leadership Awards have celebrated excellence in health care digital marketing. At the 2023 awards, winning videos showcased the power of video to capture attention, evoke emotion, and drive action. Read the full article for expert insights and examples of award-winning videos.

Inside Look at Two Health Systems and How They Achieve Success with Content Marketing

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Ochsner Health’s and Ohio State’s well-developed content hubs consolidate and showcase their organizational strengths, and as important, provide answers to the questions site visitors search for. Discover highlights of their content journeys and see how their strategies work to attract site visitors and drive organizational success.

How Stories of Human Kindness Help One Hospital Reinforce Its Brand

// By Susan Dubuque // South Shore Hospital, part of South Shore Health, serves hundreds of thousands in the Greater Boston area. To differentiate itself, the marketing team crafted the brand positioning “Your Health, Our Passion, One Community,” reflecting the hospital’s commitment to offering exceptional services and fostering a community-centric healthcare approach.

Podcasting Playbook: Winning Strategies for Successful Podcast Marketing

A new Strategic Health Care Marketing webinar for health care marketers and strategists

Presented on May 23, 2024

Podcasts are a popular, well-established audio medium used by healthcare institutions around the world to share longer-format content. They are an excellent marketing tool offering an array of benefits, including: increasing brand awareness, engaging patients, building community, and establishing thought leadership.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to leverage the power of podcasts to enhance brand visibility and community/patient engagement. We’ll provide a playbook with practical tips related to defining your audience, content creation, hosting, and physician engagement.

You’ll hear from industry leaders — including 3 Platinum winners of the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards “Best Healthcare Podcast” category — about how podcasts can be a valuable tool for elevating your marketing by connecting with audiences in a highly personalized way.

You’ll learn:

• How to integrate podcasts into your digital marketing.
• Practical tips for producing successful podcasts.
• Ways to engage your audience and enhance your podcast’s performance.
• What it takes to create and sustain an industry-leading podcast.

And much more…

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25 Years of Celebrating Excellence: eHealthcare Leadership Awards are Open

// 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!

How One Health System Leverages AI to Optimize Workflows

When ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness in late 2022, it sent ripples of excitement and concern through many professions. Those working in public relations and communication were especially interested. Questions abounded. Debate ensued. Would AI be a helpful addition to our jobs that we could control? Or something that would end our work as Read More

Kaiser Permanente’s Breast Cancer Prevention Success Fueled by Research and Effective Communication

One in eight women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer at some point in their lifetime. In recent years, the rate of breast cancer incidences has been slowly increasing, particularly in women under age 50. But breast cancer is highly treatable when caught early. The five-year survival rate for women with stage 1 Read More

Conference Preview: HMPS24 Will Keep You Educated, Informed, and Connected

When a health care conference sends out a call for speakers nine months in advance, you might wonder how current the sessions will be by the time the live event rolls around. That’s where the Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit (HMPS24) advisory committee — made up of industry leaders convened by conference producer Judy Read More

AI’s Impact on Health Care Communication Teams: Is It an Evolution or a Revolution?

Leaders at Providence believe that almost every aspect of health care will be impacted by AI in the future — including communication and PR.                                               // By Alan Shoebridge // When ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness in late 2022, it sent ripples of excitement and concern through many professions. Those working in public relations and Read More

A Conference Hand-Crafted for You

The Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit (HMPS24) planning team has put together a star-studded program covering today’s top issues that will keep you educated, informed, and connected. // By Jane Weber Brubaker // When a health care conference sends out a call for speakers nine months in advance, you might wonder how current the Read More

Research, Early Intervention, and Effective Communications Underpin Kaiser Permanente’s Multi-Year Record of Success in Combating Breast Cancer

Sometimes women are so busy taking care of others that they leave one important thing off their to-do lists: Get my mammogram.  // By Althea Fung // One in eight women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer at some point in their lifetime. In recent years, the rate of breast cancer incidences has Read More

Unlock Health Aims to Fulfill Industry Need for Unified Growth Platform

Whenever there’s an announcement about a major M&A move, it makes you wonder about the backstory. Why did Company A decide to acquire Company B? What did both sides hope to gain? What market needs did they solve for? And how will customers benefit? Unlock Health announced its acquisition of SPM Group on November 28, Read More

What Unlock Health’s Acquisition of SPM Group Means for the Industry

The leaders of the two companies believe a combined organization, with a broad portfolio of capabilities, fills an industry need for a unified partner for all health care marketing needs. // By Jane Weber Brubaker // Whenever there’s an announcement about a major M&A move, it makes you wonder about the backstory. Why did Company Read More

A B2B Marketing Approach to Increasing Physician Referrals and Growing Patient Volume

The population of the Phoenix metro area is booming. During the past decade (2012-2022), the region gained 800,00 residents to surpass the 5 million mark in population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This is good news for Phoenix Children’s health system, which is benefiting from an influx of young families moving into the area. Read More

Strategies to Turn Your Health System’s Executives Into Effective Thought Leaders

Among the most important currencies in health care is trust. Meanwhile, trust in leadership today is at an all-time low. According to PwC’s 2022 Consumer Intelligence Series on Trust, 87 percent of executives think customers highly trust their companies. In reality, it’s roughly 30 percent. That makes thought leadership from hospital executives a key method Read More

Phoenix Children’s Focuses on Increasing Physician Referrals to Grow Patient Volumes for Specialty Care Services

Building strong relationships with providers is the centerpiece of a multiphase marketing initiative. // By Brian Griffin // The population of the Phoenix metro area is booming. During the past decade (2012-2022), the region gained 800,00 residents to surpass the 5 million mark in population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This is good news Read More

Transform Even Reluctant Speakers Into Stars: Proven Strategies and Tactics to Use with Hospital Leaders

How UNC Health’s communications team prepares hospital executives for thought leadership. // By Wendy Margolin // Among the most important currencies in health care is trust. Meanwhile, trust in leadership today is at an all-time low. According to PwC’s 2022 Consumer Intelligence Series on Trust, 87 percent of executives think customers highly trust their companies. Read More

Creating the Blueprint: 5 Ways to Develop National Health Care Brand Recognition

An effective public relations effort can give organizations a megaphone to amplify health care brand recognition. As a faith-based, mission-oriented organization, OSF HealthCare (OSF), founded in the late 1800s, has historically met internal and external challenges through innovation. In the past decade OSF, headquartered in Peoria, Illinois and serving patients in Illinois and Michigan, has Read More