HealthLeaders Media Marketing Weekly - August 25, 2010 | Reaching the Real Referral Decision Makers
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Reaching the Real Referral Decision Makers
Marianne Aiello, for HealthLeaders Media
After consumer marketing, cultivating lasting relationships with physicians is considered to be a hospital marketer's greatest task. But often the decision about where to refer a patient is not made by the doctor alone—and sometimes the doctor isn't even involved at all. With this in mind, Kindred Healthcare created a strategic marketing effort that targets the entire patient care team.
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Editor's Picks
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Multimedia ER wait time postings on the rise
An increasing number of hospitals are offering emergency room wait times online and via smartphone applications, according to The Washington Post. But, the article points out, these marketing tactics are aimed at less urgent patients and not true emergencies, which would automatically be bumped to the front of the line anyway. "If you're in a car accident, you're not going to flip open your iPhone and see what the wait times are," Dr. Sandra Schneider, president-elect of the American College of Emergency Physicians, told The Post. However, online wait times are expected to continue to increase as newly insured patients require medical care. [Read More]
Report predicts huge gains in social network marketing spending
U.S. advertisers will spend $1.68 billion on social networking in 2010, a more than 20% increase from 2009, predicts eMarketer. Spending in 2011 will increase to more than $2 billion. eMarketer forecasts that Facebook will garner half of social network ad spending in the United States. Although spending on Twitter will be low this year, eMarketer predicts it could skyrocket in 2011 if the microblogging platform can show that its ad model is effective. The firm also predicts that 2011 will be a big year for spending on social gaming.
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Campaign Spotlight
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Digital Mammography Campaign Clears Competition
Firelands Regional Medical Center was the first healthcare provider in its northern Ohio service area to provide full-field digital mammography. That distinction ended in summer 2009, when a local multi-specialty physician group also began offering the service. Firelands Regional marketers quickly crafted an integrated marketing campaign to secure their position as the leading organization for digital mammography. [Read More] |
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Sponsored Headlines from IBM
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Audio Feature
Why Patient Experience Should Drive CEO Decision-Making:
If a hospital is to become patient-centric, the CEO has to have patient experience at the top of his or her list of concerns, says Gary Adamson, chief executive officer of Starizon Studio. The CEO is the only person in the organization who can span across all the department silos and drive a well-thought out orchestrated patient experience, he says. [Listen Now]
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