Direct Primary Care Practices Must Constantly Communicate to Grow and Survive Direct Primary Care is both a business model and a movement. The good news is that the movement is growing, but that alone does not guarantee the individual success of a DPC practice. More than primary care practices that rely on insurance contracts for [...]
Remote Patient Monitoring & the Future of Telehealth Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has been around since the 1970s in one form or another. In fact, RPM is one of the earliest applications of telehealth, used before that term had even been coined. In today’s rapid shift to value-based care and reimbursement, remote patient monitoring and [...]
How and How Much LinkedIn? When it comes to LinkedIn tips, let’s start with a given. If you are actively seeking a new job in a white-collar industry, LinkedIn is a great resource. If you are a recruiter for white-collar jobs, LinkedIn is a powerful forum. But if you are not in either of these [...]
Healthcare Video Marketing: Strategy or Spaghetti Against The Wall? Healthcare video marketing is a powerful communications and engagement tool for healthcare organizations. You can use healthcare video marketing to your advantage on your website, on YouTube, Instagram, Vimeo, LinkedIn and other video or video-supporting networks. So why are so many healthcare companies falling short and [...]
Retargeting Pros and Cons for Your Healthcare Organization Healthcare retargeting (also sometimes referred to as remarketing) is a commonly used and often effective tool in online advertising for healthcare organizations. Here’s what you need to know about healthcare retargeting to put the odds in your favor. Why Healthcare Businesses Use Retargeting Keep in mind that [...]
Healthcare Trends: Get Bigger or Get Smaller FAST Independent physicians who want to stay that way have been fighting an uphill battle for years against powerful healthcare trends. The bad news: It’s going to get worse before it gets better. The good news: Proactive physicians can (and must) utilize strategies to remain independent, competitive and [...]
Trends In Hospital and Health System Marketing in a Rapidly Consolidating Industry Following is a transcript of the podcast interview recording that can be found at the top of this page. The transcript has been edited for clarity and length. Lonnie Hirsch: My guest today is Alan Shoebridge, Executive Director of Marketing and [...]
Online Marketing for Healthcare Practices – Why You MUST Have a Strategy Every marketing strategy, including all of the elements of Internet marketing and online presence, needs to be organized around goals and opportunities for your specific practice. Although it’s a little hard to believe as we near the second decade of the 21st Century, [...]
Top 10 Reasons Physicians Struggle To Remain Independent – And What To Do About It 1. Financial/Profitability Challenges The entire ecosystem of insurance-based health services today is designed to drive you out – or at least discourage you enough to make you sell to or join a larger organization. How many examples do I need [...]
The 8 Most Important Marketing Strategies for a Healthcare Practice - Part 1 In today’s busy, complicated, information-overload, short-attention-span environment, there are hundreds of ways to market a healthcare practice but there are really 8 most important marketing strategies for most healthcare practices to consider. Each of these 8 strategies includes a host of possible [...]
