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Watch this SHSMD webinar for new ideas and best practices for creating alignment and delivering on your organization’s promise—as well as pitfalls to avoid. You’ll walk away with the keys for creating and sustaining exceptional employee and patient experiences.

What could have easily turned into a public relations nightmare for a hospital in Massachusetts instead became the rallying cry for action. Read more about how one hospital addressed the opioid epidemic in their community.

With the knowledge that visual content has a higher retention and conversion rate than text-based media because of its powerful psychological influence, it only makes sense that healthcare marketing leaders enhance their video tactics as part of their creative strategy. Read more about affordable ways to create effective marketing videos for your brand.

The University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) addresses a facility issue through "design sprint," which incorporates such concepts as "creating consumer experiences," and "being nimble to exceed the rate of change," as described in the SHSMD's report Bridging Worlds: The Future Role of the Healthcare Strategist, Second Edition.

The shifting healthcare landscape is requiring hospitals and health system strategists to take aggressive approaches to every aspect of their operations, including how to align physicians with their healthcare network and advertise them to the community. Read more about the key to addressing these challenges.

Hear how Boston Children’s Hospital and Northwestern Medicine have structured their people, processes, and technology to create ongoing operational capabilities for sustainable post-launch success.

In today's environment of limited hospital resources, it's critical to make meaningful and cost effective connections with those we serve. SHSMD's newly updated Bridging Worlds report for healthcare strategists highlights this concept by emphasizing the importance of "integrating and co-creating," whereby organizations find enhanced value when they engage with members of the community who have different points of view, backgrounds, and experiences.

Ask the executive team at any of the 5,200 hospitals in the United States and they will likely tell you that local demographics, competition, and payer mix make them "different from the rest." Although differences abound, all are seeing troubling reimbursement trends, all must find ways to respond to an increasingly demanding consumer, and all are looking to develop a revenue growth strategy for long-term sustainability.

A well told story can be a powerful marketing tool, especially in healthcare. One patient's experience can impact a prospective patient's thinking, actions, and behaviors, enabling them to explore potential healthcare decisions through a highly personal lens. This article explores the success of a campaign that El Camino Hospital implemented to share patient narratives.

A veteran media strategist shares insights on how to use a mix of digital tactics to raise awareness and yield results. Digital advertising — in the form of mobile marketing, search engine marketing, social media marketing, and more — is an inexpensive as well as effective way of marketing when compared to traditional methods.

Novant will highlight case studies on strategic communications programs they have conducted, data analytics tools used to ensure messaging is on track, and explain how communications work fits into the larger marketing media mix model.

Join Andrea Pearson, chief marketing officer of Healthgrades, to learn about strategic changes required to navigate and maintain leadership in the fast-changing health care environment.

Disruptive innovators take root at the bottom of the market and relentlessly move upmarket. Whether truly disruptive or more incremental, rarely before has the "dare to innovate" challenge been more prominent in healthcare. Action-forward leaders are prioritizing innovation and consumerism strategies. Learn about the hundreds of zigzag innovators advancing retail, digital and consumer solutions.

In this session, attendees will see how we did just that for South Nassau Communities Hospital, a not-for-profit hospital on Long Island. They will gain first-hand insights on merging big data with hospital data and client-specific research to predict market trends, increase market share and provide patient value.

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Healthcare is in a period of dramatic transformation.

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Hear how leaders in the health care strategy have leveraged critical skills to advance their careers. Learn important considerations for pursuing an advanced degree in health care management, and the essential groundwork for competency-driven advancement. Understand several relevant competency models, those that focus on strategists' skills, those that are critical to exceptional innovative leadership.