We hope it’s been a wonderful year of growth and learning through Stratasan's Strategic Growth blog series. As we close out the year, we thought it would be helpful to share the 5 most popular blog posts from 2016. These posts received the most hits and seemed to provide the most helpful strategic growth guidance to you, our readers.
If you’re traveling over the holidays, this is a great way to review helpful blog posts that you may have missed or revisit your favorites for fresh insight.
Tags: Blog, physician relations, strategic growth, 2016, demographics, health care, healthcare, healthcare marketing, healthcare strategic growth, marketing, healthcare customer, healthcare patient, healthcare service area, marketing roi, patient population, physician recrutiment, service area
Performing a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) is more than just a practice required by law for certain hospitals. When executed well, it can also dramatically further publicity and marketing initiatives, supporting your annual planning process and enhancing the execution of your strategic growth goals.
CHNAs provide so much beneficial information that one of the nation’s largest for-profit hospitals has brought on Stratasan to execute 17 CHNAs on their behalf. These CHNAs will benefit their community outreach and population health initiatives.
Tags: Blog, chna, strategic growth, strategic planning, community health, health care, healthcare, healthcare planning, hospital planning, marketing, Population Health Management, Community Health Needs Assessment, community outreach, health needs, healthcare analytics partner, population health
Mass marketing, shotgun marketing, spray and pray marketing—call it what you like, but if your marketing strategy can be described in any of these ways, you’re likely wasting valuable money, creating marketing programs with no trackable ROI, alienating large patient groups, and missing opportunities to connect with your preferred population.
Shotgun marketing can be defined as an attempt to raise awareness about a product or service to a large, non-specific group of people, rather than advertising to a specific demographic. There’s a chance that your marketing could hit the right population group, but there’s no guarantee. Not to mention that if you do, there’s likely to be a lot of waste. With this approach, there is no data-based assurance that you’re aiming for patients who actually need the service your hospital is offering.
Tags: Blog, strategic growth, health care, healthcare, healthcare marketing, healthcare strategic growth, hospital strategic growth, marketing, marketing research, service line growth, targeted marketing
Note: this post is part 2 of a six part series. You can read the first, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth posts here, or access the whole series, here.
As we know from the first post in this series, Esri's Tapestry Segmentation is diverse and quite different depending on the part of the country in which you live. Tapestry was designed specifically to understand customer's lifestyle choices – what they buy and how they spend their free time. This information gives Stratasan, and our clients, insights that help identify facility’s patient types, optimal sites for hospitals, physician offices, FSERS, and urgent care locations. We use the Tapestry Segmentation dataset to help our clients get higher response rates, focus on the most profitable growth opportunities, and invest their resources in the best ways possible.
Tags: Blog, Stratasan, strategic growth, consumer outreach, data, Esri, esri tapestry segmentation, GIS, health care, healthcare, healthcare data, marketing, Tapestry, tapestry segmentation
It’s no secret that the way consumers interact with the healthcare industry is undergoing an unprecedented change. One of the many new realities for hospitals and healthcare systems is the importance of a positive and active social media presence. Tech-savvy consumers are increasingly aware of the power they hold to influence hospital behavior through social sharing. The online world opens the door for positive or negative expression about a healthcare experience.
Tags: Blog, health care, healthcare, healthcare strategy, marketing, social, social media, social outreach
Note: this post is part 1 of a six part series. You can read the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth posts, or access the whole series here.
Know your customer. It's marketing and product development 101. In order to fully meet the needs of the consumers in your service area, you must first have a thorough and detailed understanding of who they are. Only then will you be equipped to grow the appropriate services lines to accurately meet their needs. And only then will you be able to target your marketing outreach to let the right consumers know about the services you have developed just for them.
Stratasan, through the use of Esri's Tapestry Segmentation, is positioned to equip your hospital and health system for strategic growth and targeted consumer outreach. This post, and the related post in the series to come, will pull back the curtain, explaining how and why we are equipped to walk your team through the process of getting to know your customer like never before.
Tags: Blog, Stratasan, strategic growth, consumer outreach, data, Esri, GIS, health care, healthcare, healthcare data, marketing, Tapestry, tapestry segmentation
*This post is based on information shared in a webinar co-presented by Stratasan’s SVP of Healthcare Strategy, Lee Ann Lambdin and TenAdam’s President, Jon Headlee. For the full presentation, watch the webinar.
Target Practice: Using Data to Focus Your Marketing
Most hospital and health system marketing and planning teams are familiar with the basics of strategic growth planning. This includes ensuring that your mission is favorable to growth, creating measurable goals, and developing a well-planned strategy for execution.
Tags: Blog, strategic growth, strategic growth planning, data, data analysis, esri tapestry segmentation, growth planning, health systems, healthcare data, healthcare marketing, hospitals, marketing, roi
The healthcare marketing landscape has changed in many ways over the past few years. Perhaps the biggest change is that the healthcare consumer is more empowered now than ever before. With an increasing amount of information about healthcare services and providers at their fingertips, consumers are making more educated decisions about how they seek the care they need. To stay competitive, your marketing mix has to evolve.
Here are 5 tips on how to make better use of your healthcare marketing budget:
Tags: Blog, advertising, content marketing, healthcare, healthcare marketing, healthcare strategy, marketing, mobile advertising, social media
It might seem lke ages ago, but do you remember a time before e-mail? There are likely some of you who can, and some of you who can't.
Tags: strategic planning, healthcare, marketing, more with less, work smart, working smarter
Since its inception, Stratasan has been at the forefront of using mapping technology with the many forms of health data we use on a daily basis. Not surprisingly, our competitors have realized that consumers in the healthcare industry value maps as well. Many of the other data vendors in our industry have started using various Esri products since Stratasan arrived on the scene. These companies mention “having Esri” now, but if you look at their offerings and compare them to Stratasan's you will quickly realize there is a BIG difference between “having Esri” and actually doing Healthcare GIS work using Esri.
Tags: strategic planning, GIS, marketing
