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Heart and Vascular Services Top Hospital Marketing Priorities for 2014

It was nearly unanimous.Hospital marketing executives and administrators ranked marketing for various…

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7 Counterintuitive Tips: Creating Content That Actually Means Something

The overwhelming deluge of information spewing from the Internet—on any and every…

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9 Best Practice Tips and Techniques for Superior Podcasts and Audio Content

Online audio content—such as podcasts, webinars, interviews and the like—have grown in…

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7 Useful Tips: How to Engage and Inspire Action and Social Sharing

A curious challenge within the art of hospital and healthcare marketing is…

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Affordable Care: Your Prospective Patients Are Mighty Confused

When it comes to healthcare reform, a big chunk of the community…

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What Happens When Doctors Sue Unhappy Patients? It’s Not Pretty

Experienced doctors tell us that, sooner or later in their career, every…

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Hospital Competition: Will Retail Medical Clinics Change From Foe to Friend?

With 30 million prospective new patients just over the healthcare horizon, hospitals…

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Nine Out of Ten Hospitals Have No Plan to Achieve Patient Satisfaction

There’s a huge gap “between hospital management and frontline clinicians with respect…

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Medicine Is a Profession, But Healthcare Is a Business

A prospective doctor’s long and arduous education has often been all about…

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Why Newly Hired Physicians Lose Money for Hospitals (and Need Marketing)

About the time the Affordable Care Act (often labeled Obamacare) was enacted…

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