Virtual Conference

Advanced Health Care Social Media & Digital Marketing

The rise of social media in health systems – both large and small - has established these channels as a relevant part of marketing and communication strategies. But as these channels have evolved (the adoption of live videos, a heavy focus on advertising, even the adoption of AI & machine learning) have our uses of social media grown at the same pace?

Digital transformation and customer-first strategies are forcing marketing and communication professionals to use their approaches to increasingly focus on our customers’ overall experience. And through this, one thing remains clear: social media continues to play a relevant role in our space.

In this keynote, Chris Boyer will share case studies from across our industry on how social media is being strategically applied, including:

• How social media is being integrated into organizations’ marketing-technology strategies
• How social insights and analytics can help map our customer journeys and yield insights into their empathy and preferences
• How social media can break down the silos between marketing, operations and experience efforts

Chris Boyer is a digital strategist and digital patient experience expert and principal of @chrisboyer LLC. For more than a decade, he has worked with numerous health systems, academic medical centers and physician practices developing digital teams and strategies to support marketing, communications and experience efforts.

Chris has direct experience working within major health systems/AMC’s, including Inova Health (Washington, DC), Northwell Health (New York, NY) and University of Minnesota Health (Minneapolis, MN), leading digital teams as part of larger, integrated branding, marketing and communication departments. He also has provided outside consulting support for numerous health systems across the country.

In addition to his work within health systems, Chris is a platinum and founding member of the Mayo Clinic Social Media Network, an international consortium developing social media best-practices for the healthcare industry. He is co-host of the touch point podcast, a weekly program dedicated to sharing the latest news and advancements in digital healthcare strategies. In 2018, Chris was inducted to the Healthcare Internet Hall of Fame as Most Innovative Individual.

Anti-vaxxers. They are organized, passionate and know how to manipulate social media. They are also spreading dangerous misinformation.

Every time Cook Children’s PR team posted information about the benefits of vaccines, the anti-vaxxers galvanized their efforts. They could post all night, pushing out inaccurate information and even getting personal, and mean, in response to Cook Children’s followers on social media.

So how do you combat them when you are a small PR team wanting to fight the good fight? Find out what the Cook Children’s Public Relations team did to take the fight to the anti-vaxxers and how they found allies.

Learning Objectives:

• Why it’s important to fight against the anti-vaxxers, no matter how painful or how many man hours it takes.
• How to galvanize your community to join you in the fight.
• How to reduce the negative noise on social media.

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This presentation will describe how the communications team at Renown Health garnered national recognition for their brand and improved local healthcare preference measures by positioning their President and CEO, Dr. Tony Slonim, as a healthcare thought leader through an integrated marketing campaign. We will dive deep into the SMART goals and tactics of this award-winning marketing plan to show how other organization could implement similar programs to elevate local and national awareness of both their brand and key executives. We will explain how we used tactics including blogging, videography and social media to meet and exceed our SMART goals for this successful integrated marketing plan. We will also explore the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and innovative new programs and explain how thought leadership can support both CSR initiatives and successful partnership programs

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn how to create and implement a thought leadership campaign using PR tactics including social media, blogging, video content, paid advertising, native content and proactive pitches. We’ll also discuss our results and how we measured the success of this campaign.
2. Learn how the Renown communications team utilized thought leadership to “fight the good fight” and join the conversation on important but controversial topics intersecting healthcare such as gun control, pedestrian safety, genetic testing and mental health.
3. Learn how this thought leadership campaign bolstered and complemented the success of the Healthy Nevada Project and other strategic indicatives.

Emily is a public relations professional who specializes in social media and reputation management. She started her career in the agency world and then fell in love with healthcare communications. Emily "fights the good fight" every day to help improve the health and wellbeing of the people in her community by creating and sharing timely health information and speaking up on important issues that impact health.

Many healthcare organizations unknowingly employ physicians who are active on Twitter. They are engaging with their followers and implementing tactics that are not only boosting their professional reputation, but the reputation of their respective health systems.

In this session, you’ll hear from Northwestern Medicine on how they uncover these hidden healthcare ambassadors, facilitate inter-departmental collaboration, and aggregate and disseminate relevant P2P content.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the correlation between physician social presence and USNWR rankings, and why physician social presence boosts hospital reputation
• Identify current and potential physician thought-leaders/influencers
• Develop and implement a physician-to-physician (P2P) content strategy that fosters collaboration between physicians/clinicians and service lines

James Sims III brings more than 10 years of marketing communications experience to Northwestern Medicine, where he joined in 2017, and is responsible for the development and evolution of the social media program. He has been a digital/communications leader on both agency and client side, working in varied industries, including CPG (McDonald's and Toyota USA), hospitality, fashion/retail, nonprofit, entertainment/music, tech, and healthcare.

Part 1: Supporting Patients with Facebook Groups

During their healthcare journey, patients and their families may feel confused, frightened, hopeless, and alone. A Facebook group that connects patients with peers, education, and support can result in better outcomes, higher patient satisfaction, greater loyalty to your health system, and a return on your investment.

In this research-based presentation, you’ll discover the keys to starting, growing, and benefitting from a successful Facebook support group.

Learning Objectives:

• The pros and cons of using a Facebook group to support your patients.
• The 5 essential mindsets to look for when you select the most important member of your group – the community manager.
• How to generate sustaining ROI from your group without acting like a marketer.

Part 2: Patient online communities can do that?

Patient online communities not only reduce isolation and anxiety, they also help patients take control of their health and improve health outcomes. In this presentation, Colleen Young, Community Director of Mayo Clinic Connect, walks you through how to:

• Build an active, thriving community using strategic community management.
• Scale moderation with volunteer leaders.
• Excite internal stakeholders up, down, and across your organization to harness the community's value.

Learn how thriving online patient communities benefit not only patients, but your organization.

Dan Hinmon is a member of the Mayo Clinic Social and Digital Innovation Team, community manager for the Mayo Clinic Social Media Network, and principal at Hive Strategies - a firm that provides expert advice for Facebook support groups.

Dan has been helping clients build their brands and expand their influence with powerful messages for more than 30 years. He believes that the relationship we build with our patients and their families is even more important than the services we sell them. Dan is a popular speaker at conferences throughout the U.S.

Colleen Young, founder of CY Connect, is internationally known for building patient communities that thrive. Clients include Mayo Clinic, College of Family Physicians Canada, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada, Hjernerystelsesforeningen Denmark and more. Using strategic community management approaches, Colleen has developed a proven framework to help organizations build online communities that work.

As Community Director for Mayo Clinic Connect, a virtual community connecting patients with each other and to Mayo Clinic medical expertise, Colleen believes online connectivity is arguably the most exciting innovation of patient-led health era. As a tenacious connector of patients, Colleen demonstrates how an active community, strategically managed, can re-imagine health care and improve health outcomes.

Ochsner Health’s mission is to “Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate,” and we’re bringing those values to more people than ever. We’re Louisiana’s largest nonprofit healthcare system, providing care at our 40 owned, managed and affiliated hospitals and specialty hospitals and more than 100 health centers and urgent care centers across the state and now in Mississippi. Additionally, with the expansion of our virtual visit and digital medicine programs, our reach is bigger than ever, giving us the ability to serve patients no matter where they are located. That’s a good thing, right? But one challenge is helping people understand that we’re not just another big corporation. We care about all our patients, no matter where they live. How do we convey that message most effectively? The answer is powerful storytelling on social media.

We’re continually reviewing what works on social media and what doesn’t, and it has become obvious that what works best are posts that tell a good story. Powerful images are a must, whether it is a produced video, a great photo or a live clip captured during an event. People want stories about people. Examples of high-performing, compelling storytelling include:

• Our new “Day In the Life’’ video series, produced videos that showcase nurses, doctors, therapists and others interacting warmly with patients and families on a normal day at work.
• “Ochsner’s Own’’ videos, photos and Instagram posts that highlight an employee doing good in the community, such as a doctor who volunteers her time at a school for developmentally disabled adults.
• Historic images that commemorate outstanding moments in Ochsner history, such as the successful separation of twin baby girls in the 1950s, when such surgeries were uncommon.

Crucial to our continued success is the expansion of three programs: influencers (mostly non-employees), Brand Ambassadors (employees) and Thought Leaders (Ochsner executives who are leaders in their field). Why? Just as people love good stories about real people, research shows that social media users trust real people to deliver those messages more than branded accounts. These programs also allow us to reach users who may not be familiar with the Ochsner brand.

Learning objectives:

• How we create our most successful videos, such as “Day in the Life."
• How to create historic posts your audience will love with free resources.
• How we recruit and train people to participate in our Influencer, Brand Ambassador and Thought Leader programs.

Melinda Daffin is supervisor of digital content for Ochsner Health in Louisiana, overseeing Ochsner’s social media platforms, the “To Your Health’’ blog and the “To Your Health’’ newsletters. Before working in hospital marketing, Melinda was an editor and writer for more than two decades in digital and print journalism with the largest news organization in Louisiana, NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune. Melinda graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. When she’s not writing and editing, she enjoys exploring the live music scene and the amazing array of festivals in New Orleans with her husband, Tim.
 

Adair LeBlanc is a senior digital content specialist for Ochsner. She received her Master of Business Administration from the University of New Orleans with a concentration in marketing and has focused on digital marketing throughout her career. Adair enjoys anything outdoors and is on the frequent quest to try all the new restaurants in New Orleans.

A one-of-a-kind patient experience is what we are all striving for as a health care system, and with all of the clutter out there in the social-verse, how do you cut through the noise and truly engage an audience whose attention spans are getting shorter by the minute? Learn how to utilize User Generated Content to your advantage and showcase the human side of your health care system with your best storytellers – your patients! Get tips on how to identify what types of content will work best for your channels and how to tell your brand’s story in this authentic and engaging way.

Learning Objectives:

• How to start a UGC strategy on your social media accounts.
• Tips to avoid risk and capture patient consent.
• Utilizing UGC to tell a bigger story outside of social media (earned media, video, etc.)

Sarah Scroggins is the Director of Social Media at Advocate Aurora Health, the 9th largest not-for-profit, integrated health system in the U.S., and has been with the organization for nearly nine years. She previously worked at a non-profit doing communications in the social services and community health sector. She has a BA and MA in Communications. Sarah was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs.

Caitlin Ruiz is the Manager of Social Media at Advocate Aurora Health, the 9th largest not-for-profit, integrated health system in the U.S. She’s been with the organization for almost three years and has worked in social media for nearly six years altogether – working previously for a talk show on ABC 7 Chicago. Caitlin has a BA in Journalism with an emphasis in Broadcast, and is passionate about storytelling and video. She’s lived in Phoenix, Dallas and Tallahassee, but now calls Chicago home!

When it comes to digital marketing, today’s health marketers have more options than ever before. From programmatic networks to social media platforms, reaching the right audiences has never been more promising and more complicated—especially when privacy must be considered. In this webinar, Crossix will discuss how to navigate the privacy-safe ecosystem while delivering effective communications through digital and social media.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the privacy regulations and guidelines across the digital marketing ecosystem.
• Gain new knowledge about social media and its limitations within these new regulations.
• Learn how to measure the impact of their campaigns, in a privacy-safe way.

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