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Today's marketers are using advanced technology and strategies to improve consumer acquisition, engagement and retention. But, how do we prove marketing effectiveness while becoming strategic business partners focused on growth goals? The answer lies in five marketing metrics.

This online SHSMD course will present a staged process that will help participants learn how to: Determine your organization’s needs and how various agency models can answer them; Identify and source potential partners; Develop, field and assess RFI's and RFP's, and position your search team for success; Evaluate RFP submissions, manage the finalist evaluation process; and Onboard your new partner and ground your new relationship to foster and promote a successful partnership

Are you spending too much promoting hospital awards? Take an eye-opening look at what health care consumers really think of hospital quality awards and how these rankings drive their health care decisions.

 Members and Nonmembers:Click here to access the webinar recording and a PDF of the presentation.

A marketing plan serves as the blueprint for all marketing efforts. This publication provides marketers from hospitals, health systems, medical practices and other health care organizations with a comprehensive overview of the major elements of a marketing plan.

In the Direct Mail in 2019 eBook, you'll learn: What is the 2019 Trend to Watch; Innovative Dimensional Mail Ideas; Data Aggregation Tips for Improved Targeting; and much more.

SHSMD Credentials are awarded for successful completion of the following designated programs that confirm proficiency of a skill through testing, examination, skill demonstration, or project completion. Additional requirements may include participation in discussion boards, quizzes, group work, presentations, and additional readings/assignments as assigned by faculty. Upon successful completion of all requirements, participants will be awarded with a verified SHSMD Credential as a shareable digital credential described below.

A panel of experts from around the country will share their experiences and best practices in operationalizing population for their health care systems. Attendees will also receive a model for population health planning—a practical guide that can be implemented immediately in any type of organization.

This session will help hospital marketers raise their own level of thoughtfulness as it relates to "pitching" their strategic business plans and budget needs to their senior leadership team. Through exploration of winning ideas and practices of big brands, this interactive session will be a real game changer for marketers.

Attend this session to learn how to develop quarterly C-suite dashboards that summarize the metrics that matter, such as lead-to-patient conversion rates, marketing's impact on payor mix, marketing ROI, and revenue contribution.

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.

Learn how an emerging best practice, the “Total Market Approach,” can create market advantages for health plans, hospitals and health systems by leveraging core human truths across general market and multicultural audiences as these groups merge into the “New Americano."

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (with their partner Modea) will reveal how their headless CMS provides greater flexibility and a readiness to respond to rapid change in how consumers digest content.

Join Ochsner Health and White Rhino as they showcase the best of consumer interface design and share recent Ochsner.org redesign updates.

It is hard for a consumer to pick up a postcard from their mailbox and attend a surgical weight loss seminar right away. Good marketers are thinking about call to actions "CTAs" that are easy to complete, are shareable and sticky!

Join us for details on recent marketing automation initiatives that have improved the experience for both the customer and the provider.

This session will look at how OhioHealth took a non-traditional marketing approach to engage and educate consumers around this topic.

This session will help you learn to free up your brain and do your job better.

This new SHSMD guide provides innovative and practical information and tools to help you design a population health plan that is consistent with your organization’s mission and strategic goals.