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In its white paper entitled "Managing Populations, Maximizing Technology," the nonprofit Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative listed 10 recommendations for achieving comprehensive population health management.1 Among those recommendations are: risk stratification, automated outreach, and advanced population analytics.

As healthcare strategists, we can no longer focus most of our resources on simply growing inpatient volume. Instead, we need to broaden our focus to the entire healthcare experience for patients and their caregivers—from initial research and preparation, to appointment scheduling, to doctor and hospital visits, to rehabilitation, to post-care follow up.

Today, many people in the hospital industry are trying to "think different" about healthcare. How can we use technology to redesign the way people interact with caregivers, become more active, and manage their own health? The answer might come from the tech industry itself.

Learn how Lafayette General Health developed and deployed a partnership ranking decision tool to support its long-range strategic business objectives.

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a hot topic in healthcare marketing. From conferences to webinars to white papers, everyone seems to be jumping on the CRM bandwagon. And for every hospital or health system that doesn't have CRM, there seems to be another that underutilizes its existing CRM echnology. In an increasingly complex world of digital marketing channels, propensity modeling, and targeted analytics, a back-to-basics approach to CRM will help most organizations make sense of this ambiguous acronym.

Brooks Rehabilitation leverages video to share compelling patient experiences. Anyone who works in our field could tell you a touching tale of compassion or relate an inspiring story of recovery against all odds. This is what is unique about healthcare. Powerful stories are happening every day. So how do we effectively tell compelling stories that connect us with our audiences? How do we create content that engages by unlocking emotion?

How to consolidate competing mammography sites in to one–while retaining patients and with no additional budget.

The HEALTH HUB Experience Guide is a document that explains the motivation behind design decisions, conveys the essence of the experience of each component as well as the overall concept, and describes the operational assumptions that informed the design.

At the 2016 Thought Leader Forum held at SHSMD's annual conference, a diverse panel of health care professionals shared their insights and perspectives on change leadership.

Together with the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) and the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM), SHSMD has developed this guide which provides easy access to crisis communications reference materials for health care executives, attorneys, communication professionals and providers. Materials presented not only provide guidelines for developing and executing a crisis communications plan but also offer a framework for retrospective analysis of the communications provided during a crisis.

Focusing on optimizing health and meeting consumers’ needs, Centura Health identified 33 geographic health neighborhoods across Colorado. For each health neighborhood, gaps in health services and resources were identified. While the precise mix of services depends on local needs, a Neighborhood Health Center was placed in each identified neighborhood.

This summary report provides insights into new ways to address health care strategy possibilities and innovations.

This research dissects the phone encounter into individual elements, and analyze which of those elements are statistically associated with the dependable variable: the likelihood of returning for future care.

This white paper establishes a set of metrics that will help marketers demonstrate their financial contribution to their health care system as well as a handy "how to get started" section. Be sure to replay the SHSMD U webcast on this topic, too.

The PowerPoint presentation, Futurescan 2016-2021, features highlights from the latest edition of Futurescan — one of the industry's most respected healthcare trends forecasts.

Hear about Nationwide Children's Hospital's solution to operational inefficiency while simultaneously increasing the program’s patient volumes and expanding its geographic reach.