Experience message on computer screen

How Corporate Culture Shapes Communications

While companies don’t define culture (employees do) they can and should be managing it. That means taking steps to ensure alignment and support of the desired culture through actions and words.

Ocean View Blog Image

5 Healthcare Marketing Trends for 2018

Imagine knowing what will most significantly impact your work in the next year. Imagine knowing what will most significantly impact the healthcare industry this coming year. Would you change strategies?…

23rd Annual Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit

Top Reasons to Attend the Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit

Now in its 23rd year, the Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit brings together leading marketing, strategy, digital, and physician relations executives to share real-world strategies and solutions for tackling…

Soccer Player on Soccer field

Welcome to the Wide World of Sports!

By Jeff Sofka Top marketing executives at companies like Chase, Amex, Nationwide, IBM, and Mercedes-Benz have learned how to leverage sports partnerships through decades of experience, data, and support from…

Crafting a Leading Brand Architecture Strategy

“How do the leading brands do it?” That’s a question healthcare brand leaders consistently ask about brand architecture strategy. Brand architecture—the way you organize and present your portfolio of offerings…

6 Essential Healthcare Marketing Trends You Ought to Know (and Leverage)

This summer, Franklin Street created a series of videos documenting how providers can best use six key trends for their healthcare brands. Here’s a closer look at the trends and…

How To Track And Validate Website Sales Leads By Marketing Channel

Perhaps no industry understands the value of data as well as the healthcare sector. Having the right data at the right time enables clinicians to make the best decisions possible…

A Holistic View of the Online Patient Experience

Sixth in a series of columns featuring lessons from the 22nd Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit Healthcare marketers have many, many opportunities to connect with patients. The key is…

A Crisis Is Coming … Are You Ready?

Fifth in a series of columns featuring lessons from the 22nd Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit If you work at a hospital or health system, it’s inevitable: If it…

How to Make Your Ad Campaign Better

Fourth in a series of columns featuring lessons from the 22nd Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit Essentia Health wanted to soften its brand. Take a more visionary approach. Get…

Teach Your Doctors How to Talk to Patients

Third in a series of columns featuring lessons from the 22nd Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit Patients assume your doctors know what they’re doing. But what they want is…

A Manifesto: You’re the Marketer—Not Your Doctors

Second in a series of columns featuring lessons from the 22nd Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit Patients deserve transparency. That’s what Matt Gove, chief consumer officer at Piedmont Health,…

Why You Should Take Your Patients Out for Breakfast

First in a series of columns featuring lessons from the 22nd Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit As healthcare marketers, we think we know what our patients want. We make…

HMPS17 Preview: When CRM and PRM Join Forces

All healthcare organizations can benefit from a more holistic view into their markets. It is only when customer relationship management (CRM) and physician referral management (PRM) join forces that total…

5 Ways to Explore Austin During the Summit

We’re thrilled to be heading out to Austin this year for our annual Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit. Yee-haw! It’s a great city to go exploring—and we know that…

HMPS17 Preview: Transforming Marketing at Wake Forest Baptist Health

Leaders at Wake Forest Baptist Health recognized the need to transform marketing for the North Carolina-based integrated health system. In the past, the marketing team only executed traditional campaigns: mass…

Internet Marketing Lead Generation: How Does Your Strategy Stack Up?

Creating a strong Internet marketing campaign is a lot like creating a treatment plan for a patient—certain elements have to be there, but they all have to work in connection…

Announcing Co-Chairs for the Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit

The Forum for Healthcare Strategists is pleased to announce that three nationally-recognized healthcare executives will serve as Co-Chairs for the upcoming Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit, May 8-10, 2017,…

Physician Search: Is Your Digital Front Door Open or Closed?

By Amanda Bury Managing Director of Healthcare SIM Partners About seven out of 10 Internet users look for medical care online, and often that search involves finding a physician. It’s…

Video Highlights from the Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit

More than 750 healthcare marketing, strategy, and physician relations executives attended the Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit in Chicago this past May. Check out what some of them had…