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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.

SHSMD ADVANCE™ is a comprehensive learning framework that includes a series of skill building tools that will help you and your health care strategy team assess, build, and promote your strategic abilities.

Customizing care for seniors will gain significance as more and more baby boomers age into this varied group. Learn lessons from one health system in its multi-faceted approach to meeting the needs of Medicare/the senior population.

TMCA went from the 50th percentile to Top 10 nationally in terms of physician engagement and alignment, with double digit increases on the satisfaction survey, physician turnover decreased by 5%, with first year physician turnover cut in half, and quality improved with a significant decline in Hospital Acquired Infection. TMCA saw measurable results on decreasing referral leakage, improving referral development, and gaining access for their Physician Relations Manager (PRM) team to meet with key physicians.

Three key strategies include implementing a data-driven physician communication campaign spearheaded by the Chief Physician Executive; encouraging physicians to participate in engagement events where they interact with each other and consumers in a meaningful way; and building a platform to allow for actionable feedback.

As health system leaders, this means we’ve scoped our value proposition to address patient issues — when we should really be scoping our value proposition to engage and encompass entire lifetimes. Cue health care consumerism: moving past the limited focus on the inpatient experience to truly meet people where they are outside of hospital walls

What needs to happen to replace health care consumer confusion and complexity with customer confidence and contentment? Learn more about the health care customer experience during this session.

This presentation provides practical guidance to health care leaders and prepares them for the inevitable challenges they will face personally and professionally during integration.

AFMS hosted the “What’s Your Why” Campaign to raise awareness about the transformation effort and to inspire Airmen to join the journey by telling their “why” — their personal reason for dedication to high reliability health care. The presentation overviews the methods, results, and lessons learned in launching a campaign that pilots purpose-driven work and boosts engagement and productivity.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (with their partner Modea) will reveal how their headless CMS provides greater flexibility and a readiness to respond to rapid change in how consumers digest content.

A panel of experts from around the country will share their experiences and best practices in operationalizing population for their health care systems. Attendees will also receive a model for population health planning—a practical guide that can be implemented immediately in any type of organization.

This presentation will discuss how this framework can guide health system responses to the opioid epidemic, highlight insights from patterns in county-level geographic variation, and identify tactics health systems can deploy to improve performance.

This session will uncover what leaders and key stakeholders expect and provide ideas to meet expectations. We’ll provide concepts for ensuring there is good understanding and buy-in for the model, methods and measurement with key internal stakeholders and the leadership.

Executive Leaders of three diverse health care providers share their recent experiences and efforts to expand the impact of their ambulatory networks.

The speakers will discuss the design of a next-generation ambulatory care network that sustainably integrates services across the system and deploys them in the right geographies to bolster overall competitive advantage.

Join Ochsner Health and White Rhino as they showcase the best of consumer interface design and share recent Ochsner.org redesign updates.

In this session, we will explore examples of real health systems’ varying approaches to positioning employed physician groups, from complete autonomous enterprises, to adjuncts and extensions of hospital-based services, to primary drivers of downstream revenue.

Health systems are increasingly expanding their reach into new geographies through partnerships of all sizes in order to serve new communities and deliver the full care continuum. Learn valuable lessons for branding and marketing success in health care’s merger-heavy market.