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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.

Several case studies from UC Davis Health will illustrate how best to use digital display, video, mobile and social ads to maximize audience reach and traffic to your landing pages.

Today, hip and knee replacement represents nearly half of all inpatient orthopedic service line volumes nationally. Over the next several years, Sg2 predicts aggressive outpatient procedural shifts that leave traditional inpatient providers feeling financially vulnerable and strategically stalled. Innovative organizations such as Unity Point are leveraging this trend to differentiate their program regionally and on a national scale.

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.

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.

This session highlights the experiences of a Gannett News Organization reporter who observed Mission Health from the board room to the operating room, filing a series of reports that ran over four consecutive weeks in spring 2015.

This resource showcases stories " and lessons learned " by a panel of hospital communicators from some of the most tragic headlines, including the Boston Marathon bombing, the San Bernardino shootings, and the Virginia on-air shootings.

Kathy Wilets and Libby Mitchell from University of Utah Health Care will discuss how Twitter and Facebook can be your best friends in times of crisis, even when the trolls come calling.