Trends: Healthcare
Healthcare Checkup – August 2018
Is the patient medical bill part of your consumer journey mapping? With 83% of Americans finding high medical costs a big problem, it should be. Are you communicating properly with your burgeoning mul … Read article
Closing the multicultural-consumer healthcare gap.
My Eastern European dad believed that garlic cured pretty much all of what might ail you. At the first sign of a cold, he’d peel a garlic clove and scrape it liberally across a slice of toast. Th … Read article
What your healthcare journey map is missing.
Your healthcare system is a marketing marvel. Your team is working every relevant consumer channel to connect, engage and convert patient prospects. Leadership has entrusted you with more than the pus … Read article
Healthcare Checkup – June 2018
Featuring a nurse in your new ad campaign may just break through. As would sponsoring a wellness festival. Baking and board games resonate creatively with Gen We. And from Gen We to Matures, people ar … Read article
Wellness festivals: It’s what health junkies rave.
Coachella is synonymous with popular music, celebrity, style and excess. (In sum, Beyonce headlined this year backed by more than a hundred musicians and dancers, with special appearances by Destiny’s … Read article
Nurses: vital in the hospital, invisible in the media.
Nurses stand at the frontlines of patient care. They track symptoms, communicate with doctors, monitor progress and administer personalized treatment. And because they spend so much time with both pat … Read article
Healthcare Checkup – May 2018
So many conferences, so little time? Get our key takeaways from three healthcare and marketing conferences we attended this month, and highlights from the AHA Annual Meeting. Plus barbershop medicine … Read article
Key takeaways from the Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit.
This year’s Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit got me thinking—a lot. But the true test of a learning experience is whether one is moved from inspiration to practice. Sharing or so … Read article
4 key takeaways from the MSHPM conference.
Aka (/mish pim/) or Michigan Society for Healthcare Planning and Marketing, which is of course, the Michigan counterpart to SHSMD, aka (/shish med/), or Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Deve … Read article
Shave and a hypertension check? How barbers can help lower blood pressure.
Hypertension threatens about one in three adults in the U.S. Black men are particularly vulnerable and underrepresented in traditional studies. So, to reach this at-risk population, researchers went t … Read article






















