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Dive into dozens of innovation resources, all dedicated to advancing your career in health care strategy.

Please join us for a one-hour webcast where we will review the highlights of the latest SHSMD Physician Relations Benchmarking Report. This highly anticipated survey, in collaboration with the American Association of Physician Liaisons, provides unique insights into the field from several hundred front-line, managerial, and support participants.

Share best practices that have helped to recruit, onboard, and retain top providers to hundreds of hospitals across the nation. Explore how others are using strategy, data, and technology to hardwire the recruitment process, accelerate practice ramp-up, and achieve long-term retention.

In response to consumer demands for simple, affordable service, Jefferson Health—a health system in the Philadelphia region that includes 14 hospitals—is building a value-based care business model through a robust telehealth program that spans the care continuum from specialty consults and virtual rounds, to post-discharge management and urgent care visits. Learn more about the JeffConnect program in this article.

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.

With 77% of consumers searching online before making an appointment with a provider, health care marketers are building the “digital front door” to help engage and acquire them. But what does a digital strategy look like for this when there are multiple touchpoints a consumer experiences before selecting a provider? This panel will help define the elements needed to align your digital marketing with a person’s journey to care.

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

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.

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.

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 reviews the activation timeline of the media relations team at Sunrise Health System Hospitals as our flagship trauma center closest to the Strip experienced treating 180 patients during the largest mass casualty in US history.

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.

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.