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Facing increasing high-deductible health plan enrollment and a consolidating market, Emory Healthcare's leadership team needed to understand how their patients make healthcare decisions and the role that price played in where they went for care. To do this, Emory carried out in-depth customer focused work and price benchmarking to understand its relative position and the role of price in consumer choice.

After a diagnosis of breast cancer, individuals are faced with several life-changing decisions about how to navigate treatment decisions, which are best made by an engaged and well-informed patient. Using proprietary software designed to collect patient inputs via a mobile device and marry those inputs with tiered decision-making algorithms, the Mayo Clinic breast cancer decision-support tool is changing the way breast cancer patients — and their providers — approach treatment.

Participate in a panel discussion with marketing professionals from three rural hospitals to understand why you don't need the extensive resources of the big urban hospitals to create successful marketing campaigns. All three hospitals faced competition from and outmigration to larger systems within driving distance. Listen to the three case studies of each hospital, presented by the marketing professionals whose clear knowledge of their community, matched with innovative ideas, led to strong marketing ROIs.

Hear about the beautiful, symbiotic relationship when population health management teams with marketing to uncover the true benefit of their programs. Learn how marketers must be able to leverage their CRM data and reporting to provide true business intelligence for their service line and population health teams to make timely decisions about program management is invaluable.

Findings from recent research among U.S. health care leaders suggests that facilitating change management initiatives within an organization requires significant leadership and team building competencies. In this session, facilitators will present a number of existing change models and then introduce one new change theory to be applied during the use of an active simulation model, resulting in the needed buy in for change from key stakeholders and team members.

Patient referrals are often a piece of paper with a specialist's name and phone number on them, which leaves patients with the burden of navigating the referral and coordinating their own care. This session will present novel ways to standardize referral management, provider data management, and patient access across a health system's multiple patient access points in order to improve the patient experience, increase patient conversion and retention, and fully leverage the clinical expertise within a network.

How to apply Consumer Product Goods (CPG) tools and concepts to improve business development and planning as consumerism becomes more influential in healthcare decision-making. We will also discuss some of the necessary competencies and culture aspects needed to help you create a more data driven organization. Key takeaways will include few free tools to support your efforts.

Imagine utilizing predictive analytics and interactive mapping to identify unsaturated market areas full of unmet patient demand, overlay ideal payer mix projections, and forecasting future financial success. Healthcare providers can now create predictive, neighborhood level strategic plans for optimization of urgent, FEDs, primary/specialty care practices and even micro-hospitals.

Learn how to transform your town hall sessions to engage your employees in the strategic direction of your organization, help staff understand the "why" and garner CEO support for two-way communication. Dayton Children's employees attended quarterly town hall sessions for staff that weren't interactive, or engaging, and therefore, they weren't well attended.

The Surgeon General's report called addiction "a bigger health problem than cancer." This is a call to arms for every hospital in the nation. The heroin epidemic is decimating whole generations. The crisis is bringing clinical, financial, operational and messaging challenges to health systems everywhere. Three experts have joined together to bring you insights from ground zero of this epidemic.

Leverage the revenue producing results from your marketing efforts to support and grow marketing budgets and change the way your organization thinks about marketing. Hear how other industries and SCL Health is changing the role of marketing from supporting lines of business to being considered their own profit center. Learn how to build a return on investment performance process to improve/create strategies and more effective implementations with robust measurement practices.

This case study will examine a year of data and include reports on internal marketing efforts to Reid Health's 2500 employees, as well as external marketing efforts within Reid's designated service area and beyond, by targeting prospects throughout Indiana and Ohio.

Most people see a doctor about twice per year. The rest of the year, they make decisions every day that impact their health. Checking in between encounters has traditionally been a function of case managers dealing with high-risk patients; there aren't enough to reach out to the rest of the population. Automated chatbot conversations allow check-ins with all people in a community, gather health data, and provide information, all with a "cool" interface and phenomenal engagement.

In this session, Robin Schell, APR, Senior Counsel & Partner, Fellow PRSA of Jackson Jackson & Wagner and Gail Winslow, APR, Associate Director, Strategic Growth, of UMass Medical Center will introduce the concept of using triggering events to drive internal and external behaviors, and discuss how UMass Medical Center uses data to motivate and support behaviors, make effective business decisions and measure success. Using the example of implementing Salesforce by UMass Medical School, participants will see how theory and application come together in a CRM system.