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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.

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." For healthcare strategists today, this quote from the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer reflects the relationship between skepticism and the process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data as a means to better decision making.

Read more about the internal communications renovation at the University of Texas Medical Branch after a years-long recovery from 2008's Hurricane Ike, which did $1 billion in damage to the headquarters campus.

Imagine a world where your smart phone — and a nurse connected to it — can determine the level of care you need for a health concern before ever leaving the house. Or envision an urgent care visit where, upon your arrival, you are registered in the time it takes to walk to the exam room and are out the door in less than an hour.

HealthEast, a four-hospital system serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, was determined to make good use of its patient portal—to improve health outcomes by sharing proactive, consistent health information that patients could access anywhere. Read more about their implementation of two digital health tools.

We are in a renaissance. The rate of change in the healthcare marketplace is moving at an accelerated pace. There are more opportunities than ever before for healthcare strategists, but there are greater challenges to refine and build upon their skillsets in preparation for an unknown future. Read about the skills and attributes necessary to succeed in a rapidly evolving healthcare environment.

For two decades, research conducted by change management thought leader John Kotter and others has shown that approximately two-thirds of large-scale change initiatives fail to meet their objectives.1 Faced with daunting odds like these, how can strategists position themselves to better lead and communicate the significant changes sweeping through the healthcare field?

The marketing team at Henry Ford Health System is using digital content — from social media messaging to blog posts — to engage with consumers and drive online traffic. When consumers visit your Facebook page or website, is what they see and read representative of the experience they have in your hospital or clinic?

As hospitals and health systems increasingly implement physician alignment strategies, physician relations teams must concentrate on ways they can bring value to their organizations in this new environment. This article explores the ways in which physician relations professionals can be more engaged in physician alignment.

Imagine trying to manage strategic planning for a health system that has doubled in size in recent years, but lacks standardized business development processes to maximize growth opportunities. Then, imagine an extremely competitive consumer marketplace where two members of that same network are advertising for the same service in the same newspaper (or on dueling billboards) with no mention of the health system.

When a crisis occurs in your community, how should your hospital or health system's public relations/communications team respond? Whether an incident is local in nature or has national or international implications, it is vital for hospitals to have a crisis plan in place that will ensure effective communications to all key internal and external audiences, and stakeholders — and protect the hospital's reputation.

How can a health system develop optimal new wellness programs tailored specifically to its unique market? That's the challenge Fairview Health Services, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, faced in 2015 as part of its strategy to develop new services that would meet the needs of the community, generate new sources of revenue in a retail delivery model, and extend its presence in Minnesota and the upper Midwest.

The leadership at University Medical Center of Princeton in Plainsboro, New Jersey, part of Princeton HealthCare System, established a goal to grow maternity services at a time when US Census projections showed a steady decline in women of childbearing age across the region. A couple of years earlier, the health system built a larger replacement facility on a well-traveled stretch of US Route 1, making the respected community teaching hospital more visible and accessible to a growing population in central New Jersey. And although this provided an important opportunity to target a new audience, the marketing team wrestled with how best to develop the right marketing strategy.

In this session, you will learn how North Memorial Health Care and Carrot Health combined medical records and consumer data to develop a novel, highly targeted approach to consumer outreach for a new urgency center facility in Minneapolis.

Learn how to define organizational personality, unify storytelling, and manage reputation with new tools and methods, all while building an engaged internal army.

The final result of Southcoast Health System's service line planning was a plan with a vision that supported the system's overall primary care strategy and articulated specific initiatives supportable by physicians. This lookback will be relayed by the chair of this effort, who himself is a practicing primary care physician.

This session discusses telehealth as a rural outreach business development strategy for hospitals and health systems, and demonstrates how the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) built and operates its successful Center for Telehealth.

To make its website as sweet as the town's iconic chocolate bar, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center took a patient-centered approach when redesigning its web presence. In this session, hear how Penn State used patient input throughout the redesign and how those approaches influenced the design direction.

Learn how, with a highly personalized strategy, Kish/Northwestern uses six strategic approaches to help develop stronger community connections, which have led to increased access to hospital services, use of preventive screenings without overuse, and greater awareness of the system brand as a trusted health resource and not just a place to go to when ill.