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How can marketing and public relations practitioners help their organizations make a measurable difference in population health? At Onslow Memorial Hospital (OMH) in North Carolina, Amy Cain-Sousa, senior vice president of public relations/marketing, has found that creating an online community dedicated to wellness can be an effective first step.

To help increase employee engagement, the marketing team at Dayton Children's Hospital re-christened their town hall meetings as Game-Changing Performance Sessions, or GPS. Read about the factors and critical takeaways that contributed to the success of the GPS sessions.

In response to consumer demands for simple, affordable service, Jefferson Health—a health system in the Philadelphia region that includes 14 hospitals—is building a value-based care business model through a robust telehealth program that spans the care continuum from specialty consults and virtual rounds, to post-discharge management and urgent care visits. Learn more about the JeffConnect program in this article.

In recent years, marketing has transitioned from one of the least to one of the most technology-driven fields in healthcare. Why? In part, because savvy marketing leaders recognize that engaging with patients has moved into the digital world. So how can hospitals and health systems effectively engage with consumers on their mobile devices? Here are five tips to keep in mind.

How do marketers at one of the world's most advanced medical laboratories improve upon the services they provide to customers around the globe? Mayo Medical Laboratories developed a digital communications hub called Insights after customers and internal stakeholders alike were voicing concerns about the functionality and usefulness of the MML website.

What's your role in working with and communicating to your physicians? Fresh off a recent lively discussion on the topic with the medical staff at University of Iowa (UI) Health Care, here are ten steps you can take to refresh your physician communications.

When large, data-driven, consumer- oriented companies such as Google and Amazon announce they are entering the health care space, hospitals and health systems must be ready to change, update, and innovate in order to continue to be successful.

In today's healthcare landscape it's critical for marketing departments to be able to demonstrate they are not merely "a cost of doing business" but rather an asset that can contribute to the organizational bottom line. But how? Read more about one healthcare organization's journey to measuring marketing performance.

As the health care field increasingly focuses on population health, hospital and health system marketers need to learn how to use their promotional skills in new ways to help their organizations achieve the objectives of this model of care. This article discusses the population health initiative of one health system and their customer relationships management (CRM) campaign.

Until recently many leaders refrained from taking aggressive public stands on controversial issues. There have always been high-profile leaders in certain industries who aren't afraid to speak up, but healthcare leaders in general tend to be more reserved. If you sensed a change recently, you're not mistaken. Read more about the role of healthcare leaders on social media in this article.

What could have easily turned into a public relations nightmare for a hospital in Massachusetts instead became the rallying cry for action. Read more about how one hospital addressed the opioid epidemic in their community.

With the knowledge that visual content has a higher retention and conversion rate than text-based media because of its powerful psychological influence, it only makes sense that healthcare marketing leaders enhance their video tactics as part of their creative strategy. Read more about affordable ways to create effective marketing videos for your brand.

The University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) addresses a facility issue through "design sprint," which incorporates such concepts as "creating consumer experiences," and "being nimble to exceed the rate of change," as described in the SHSMD's report Bridging Worlds: The Future Role of the Healthcare Strategist, Second Edition.

The shifting healthcare landscape is requiring hospitals and health system strategists to take aggressive approaches to every aspect of their operations, including how to align physicians with their healthcare network and advertise them to the community. Read more about the key to addressing these challenges.

In today's environment of limited hospital resources, it's critical to make meaningful and cost effective connections with those we serve. SHSMD's newly updated Bridging Worlds report for healthcare strategists highlights this concept by emphasizing the importance of "integrating and co-creating," whereby organizations find enhanced value when they engage with members of the community who have different points of view, backgrounds, and experiences.

Ask the executive team at any of the 5,200 hospitals in the United States and they will likely tell you that local demographics, competition, and payer mix make them "different from the rest." Although differences abound, all are seeing troubling reimbursement trends, all must find ways to respond to an increasingly demanding consumer, and all are looking to develop a revenue growth strategy for long-term sustainability.

A well told story can be a powerful marketing tool, especially in healthcare. One patient's experience can impact a prospective patient's thinking, actions, and behaviors, enabling them to explore potential healthcare decisions through a highly personal lens. This article explores the success of a campaign that El Camino Hospital implemented to share patient narratives.

A veteran media strategist shares insights on how to use a mix of digital tactics to raise awareness and yield results. Digital advertising — in the form of mobile marketing, search engine marketing, social media marketing, and more — is an inexpensive as well as effective way of marketing when compared to traditional methods.

General Colin Powell once said, "Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." It's no secret that effective leaders are often good communicators—able to motivate, encourage, and inspire others. But that's not all. Great leaders are also adept at listening, learning, analyzing, adapting, pivoting, problem-solving, teaching, and training.

With over 85 percent of patients discharged directly home the day after surgery at Trinity's Bettendorf, Iowa, campus, strategic planning and market development leaders at UPH recognized an opportunity to work with Trinity to drive discussions on care delivery models for the future of joint replacement surgery. Read about the initiative and the results in this article.