Healthcare content marketing requires time, effort and strong strategy — three resources that are always in demand within healthcare organizations (HCOs). Creating high-quality content that resonates with your audiences means figuring out what those audiences want and showing why your team is the best choice to help them. A messaging matrix can play a key […]
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Generative AI in Healthcare: 6 Do’s and Don’ts to Harness This Powerful Technology
Artificial intelligence (AI) has exploded onto the scene in most industries. And the healthcare field is no exception. Faced with growing workloads, shrinking margins and the ever-present “do more with less” mindset, many in healthcare are looking to generative AI as the next revolution in healthcare delivery, management and marketing. We’re bullish on the concept […]
Healthcare Content Audit: 6 More Benefits for Your Organization
I first published the article “6 Reasons You Need to Conduct a Content Audit” back in 2019. I just updated it recently — something you should do regularly for your older blog content — and it still has good insights as to the importance of a content audit for your healthcare organization (HCO). But I […]
Conversion-Centered Content: 5 Secrets Your Healthcare Organization Needs to Know
Conversions are healthcare marketers’ lifeblood. After all, most of the effort you spend on audience outreach and engagement, apart from simple brand awareness and public-service campaigns, comes with the ultimate goal of getting those audience members to become patients, members or consumers of your healthcare organization (HCO). That means you need a plan behind each […]
6 Reasons You Need to Conduct a Content Audit
What’s the state of your healthcare organization’s content right now? How do you know? Each piece of your content tells readers a story about your healthcare organization (HCO). And if you’re not regularly taking stock of your content through a content audit, those old webpages, blog articles and other items may be telling a story […]
Healthcare Decision-Making: Content Types for Each Stage of the Process
In the healthcare and life sciences space, good content strategy and content creation are rooted in scientific principles. We base our work on key tenets of behavioral science and psychosociology. One of the most important of these that forms a foundation of our work on healthcare personas and journey mapping is the Transtheoretical Model, which […]
Healthcare’s Digital Back Door: One Term, Two Meanings and How (or Whether) to Use It
We’re all about opening doors for consumers, members and patients in the healthcare space. We shared a three-part series on the digital front door designed to help healthcare organizations (HCOs) create cohesive experiences that are welcoming to consumers. But having a digital front door implies that a digital back door exists. And therein lies the […]
Caregiver Healthcare Content: When the Patient Isn’t Your Audience
Most of the time, when you’re writing healthcare content for a provider organization, we recommend writing directly to the patient. Writing directly to them helps foster feelings of warmth and connection between your healthcare organization (HCO) and the potential patient. But what happens when you’re writing for the caregiver, rather than the patient? The Centers […]
Healthcare Blogs: 7 Tips for Finding Article Topics That Resonate
We’ve written before about how crucial healthcare blogs can be to your organization’s messaging and outreach strategies. However, it’s not enough just to have a blog. Your team also has to contribute to it regularly. You likely should be posting at least once a week. But that number may be higher if you’re in a […]
Healthcare Writing Training: 5 Ways Your Content Team Can Benefit
It can seem like training is never-ending in the corporate setting — particularly in the healthcare industry. You’ve got compliance training, processes training, training from corporate leadership, onboarding training for new team members and more. But there’s one more type of training your healthcare content strategists and marketers need that you’re (probably) not doing: healthcare […]
Overcoming Healthcare’s Mountain of Mistrust – Part 2: Payers
This is the second part of our series in which we’re discussing the increasing need to build trust among healthcare consumers. The analytics and opinion-polling firm Gallup has found a decline in Americans’ trust in many institutions and industries, including healthcare. This means building strong, ongoing relationships with consumers and members will be more critical […]
Overcoming Healthcare’s Mountain of Mistrust – Part 1: Providers
According to research from the analytics and opinion-polling firm Gallup, Americans’ faith and trust in their institutions are on the decline. Even the healthcare industry, which has long enjoyed some of the highest trust ratings among the public, has also seen a drop in consumer confidence. Gallup’s data shows that Americans’ trust in the healthcare […]