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General Colin Powell once said, "Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." It's no secret that effective leaders are often good communicators—able to motivate, encourage, and inspire others. But that's not all. Great leaders are also adept at listening, learning, analyzing, adapting, pivoting, problem-solving, teaching, and training.

With over 85 percent of patients discharged directly home the day after surgery at Trinity's Bettendorf, Iowa, campus, strategic planning and market development leaders at UPH recognized an opportunity to work with Trinity to drive discussions on care delivery models for the future of joint replacement surgery. Read about the initiative and the results in this article.

Extended hours and same-day appointments are fine, but not nearly enough to give today's consumers the convenience and access they desire. "What people really want is on-demand access," says David James, MD, CEO of Memorial Hermann Medical Group in Houston. "…They just need to get things done, and time has become really important for them."

Patients' personal investment in healthcare is higher now than ever before, and so are their expectations. In this consumerist environment, quality of experience is a prime factor in driving loyalty. This article explores both quantitative and qualitative approaches that are needed to grasp the entire patient choice decision-making journey.

Learn how to attract more patients, execute the strongest strategies, and make smart marketing investments that will not only get you noticed, but give you an edge over your competitors.

Join Dave Griffith, VP Analytics and Insights, and Heidi Schulte, VP Solutions Consultant, from Healthgrades as they walk you through innovative ways of utilizing data to inform decisions and solve business challenges beyond the marketing campaign.

Bridging Worlds: The Future Role of the Health Care Strategist helps strategy professionals successfully navigate their organizations through turbulent times with the specific toolkit of attributes and skills necessary for future success.

Bluespire’s lead health care strategist and digital strategy expert will review spending regularities in the industry, cover emerging trends and outline specific search tactics that are available to health care marketers. They’ll also show why content and information on health care websites is a crucial component to SEO strategy and delivering on a positive online experience.

This article describes how organizations can approach efforts to improve the patient experience, including examples of strategies gleaned from other industries. The article also highlights how one progressive hospital—Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula—is using mobile and digital technology to gain insights and meet consumer needs in real time.

It's no secret—when it comes to marketing automation, healthcare is behind the times. According to a study by Ovum1, our field falls into the "laggards" category in the adoption of marketing automation, meaning most organizations have avoided wholesale adoption until now. This presents a tremendous opportunity for healthcare marketers.

As healthcare professionals, you are surrounded by the greatest stories on the planet. Your work isn't just about data and credentials. It's about people. It's about saving lives and changing lives, every single day. Here are a few ways to effectively tell a story.

Community Hospital Corporation identified best practice tips to help organizations prepare CHNAs and implementation plans that align with strategic planning priorities and Internal Revenue Service requirements. Here's the strategic roadmap they developed.

With this shift to a digital marketing mindset comes a change in the skills and resources that compose a highly-functioning marketing team. This team is built on the “think, feel, do” principle – stacked with data analysts, demand generators, and strategic content creators. How do you acquire the skills needed to excel in this new marketing department?

Hear about the beautiful, symbiotic relationship when population health management teams with marketing to uncover the true benefit of their programs. Learn how marketers must be able to leverage their CRM data and reporting to provide true business intelligence for their service line and population health teams to make timely decisions about program management is invaluable.

The team behind the Hospital Digital Index (HDX) will share their research on the rise of the “mobile majority” which now typifies visitors to health care sites. They’ll share best-practice examples of systems who have made location-smart experiences which smooth their patients journey to care.

Explore stories of how human-centered design can infuse humanity and bring about cultural change within a hospital, mediating organizational needs with those of end users who may be stressed or vulnerable. Hear about innovative projects that span the design of systems, clinical processes, services, environments, digital interactions, and printed materials.

In 2015, The University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) became one of the first health systems in the nation to focus on creating exceptional patient experiences using human-centered design. Here are answers to several questions about the health system's new approach to experience design.

In 2013, Boston Medical Center (BMC) began a five-year strategy to recruit more than 45 additional general internal medicine and family medicine providers. Read more about their recruitment campaign in this article.

To meet the challenge of keeping families as patients once they become parents, the marketing team at Nebraska Methodist developed a non-branded strategy that highlights the knowledge of our obstetricians, pediatricians, and family medicine physicians. Read more about the launch of their unique website for parents in this article.