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The consumerization of health care is upon us. Learn how to obsess over your customers in the same way as Amazon by adopting a patient-focused initiative that creates a personalized, one-to-one experience.

What happens when a former executive from Starwood Hotels and Resorts takes over marketing at a physician practice? Florida Orthopaedic Institute implemented a strategy for creating a 5-star customer experience — and attracting more patients — with online reputation management playing a vital role.

Finding common themes and insightful trends in the health care field in this time of transformation and uncertainty can be challenging. But we must if we want to be proactive and shape events rather than merely react to them. Understanding the current climate and the direction of health in America will help us in our work to shape the health care delivery system of the future.

We will share how marketing and communications offices can use original research to help gather insights into clinical marketing efforts, internal culture change, and earn local and national media.

Join us to learn how to measure and design for loyalty in tomorrow's health care.

When Dayton Children’s Hospital had almost completed a more than $200 million dollar expansion and revitalization project, the marketing team was tasked with turning four opening events on two campuses into something more powerful than just another ribbon cutting. The resulting plan used each event as a tent pole to elevate the hospital’s brand, showcase services, spotlight providers and highlight community commitment.

As part of a safety assessment, employees of Signature Healthcare were asked about the priorities of the hospital’s leadership. Surprisingly, patient safety was not in the list of their responses. This was a jolting revelation. In response, Signature’s CEO, Kim Hollon announced his own version of the Moon Shot.

This session advances the future of health care strategy by sharing an approach to effectively integrate culture, strategy, and implementation responsibility throughout the organization.

The VCU Health communications team pioneered utilizing Facebook Live, incorporating it into their strategy soon after it launched. From live streaming health seminars, to getting on-the-ground reactions of medical students on match day, to one-on-ones with doctors talking about unique medical issues, the possibilities for health care marketing are endless.

In this session, Johnny Smith Jr., Senior Director of Public Relations for Ascension, will demonstrate how to develop a strategic thought leadership program that aligns with your organization’s mission, strengthens its brand and distinguishes it as a leader.

That research also found that managers need significant help to succeed as “key communicators” — the kind of help that systems like University Health System are providing in innovative ways that deliver results: significant improvement in employee engagement levels.

This session will help you learn where your organization is on a consumerist journey and how to position the organization for success in this new world of the consumer.

This session will demonstrate the need for advocacy, professionalism, branding, and awareness on social media’s impact for brand success.

Attend this session and learn how UNC Health Care and Geonetric used extensive web analytics and stakeholder feedback to create a comprehensive location strategy, with special attention paid to UNC Health Care’s specialty clinics.

Over the last nine years, we have sent out almost 50,000 separate email campaigns from a wide range of companies that target physicians. From this huge base of experience, we have pulled out six secrets to make your next hospital email campaign be the best performing one ever.

This session will cover how OSF HealthCare took 70 MarCom members across 13 facilities and developed a crisis communication plan for all.

This session will help you learn to free up your brain and do your job better.

Case studies will be discussed demonstrating how hospitals are using approaches such as human-centered design, adaptive leadership and new partnerships based on social impact, to accelerate, sustain and/or scale innovation and improvement in areas ranging from clinician burnout to safety.