Five Critical Predictive Modeling Questions to Ask a Prospective HCRM Partner

By | June 21, 2019

This is the second post in a two-part series that discusses healthcare predictive and propensity modeling and selecting the optimal analytics partner to support your growth and engagement efforts. The first post in this series shares five best practices in healthcare propensity modeling.

Big Data for HealthcareIn our last post, we talked about big data, healthcare, and predictive modeling: How can you leverage your health data, analytics, and modeling to get the “biggest bang” for your marketing dollars?

However, as we mentioned, the million-dollar question is: With so many variables (and so much data) at play, how can healthcare marketers ensure they are effectively leveraging propensity and other predictive modeling?

We provided five guidelines for consideration when you commence predictive modeling: 

  • Define target/goal
  • Use best data
  • Use multiple data sources and most appropriate analytics
  • Ensure data are vetted/validated
  • Deploy validated analytics and employ follow-up testing

If you decide to use predictive modeling, you must ensure you are engaging with a HCRM partner that can support best-in-class analytics. There are several components to consider when doing your due diligence on a potential partner. For example, some provide in-house modeling and analytics; sometimes as a menu of options, other times as custom services for a fee. Others outsource their modeling and analytics to (usually) industry agnostic companies; however, there are also many smaller, boutique/niche analytics companies that provide some specialization. More

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Evariant

Evariant provides a leading healthcare CRM solution suite designed to help health systems transform the healthcare experience for their consumers, patients, and physicians. Built on the Salesforce Platform, our solutions foster richer consumer/patient engagement and tighter physician alignment. Powered by cutting-edge data and analytics, Evariant enables health systems to effectively communicate care options that increase revenue and market share, while optimizing network utilization. Many of the top health systems have selected Evariant to thrive in today’s hyper-competitive and rapidly changing environment.
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Five Best Practices in Healthcare Propensity Modeling

By | June 19, 2019

This is the first post in a two-part series that discusses healthcare predictive and propensity modeling and selecting the optimal analytics partner to support your growth and engagement efforts. The second post in this series shares five critical predictive modeling questions to ask a prospective HCRM vendor.

When we talk about big data, the numbers can get overwhelming – and fast. The 4.4 zettabytes of data that exists today is expected to grow to 44 zettabytes by the year 2020. This means that, in just three years’ time, roughly 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created, every second, for every human being on the planet.

The healthcare industry greatly impacts the growth of big data, but many healthcare systems find themselves lagging behind: They are data-rich yet analytics-poor. Big data offers opportunities for hospitals and health systems to better understand patient populations and behavior, ultimately leading to improved health outcomes.

But, as we’ve written about previously, it’s not enough to simply have the information. What’s critical for healthcare marketers is figuring out what they’re going to do with the information – and how to make data actionable. Enter propensity modeling. More

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Evariant

Evariant provides a leading healthcare CRM solution suite designed to help health systems transform the healthcare experience for their consumers, patients, and physicians. Built on the Salesforce Platform, our solutions foster richer consumer/patient engagement and tighter physician alignment. Powered by cutting-edge data and analytics, Evariant enables health systems to effectively communicate care options that increase revenue and market share, while optimizing network utilization. Many of the top health systems have selected Evariant to thrive in today’s hyper-competitive and rapidly changing environment.
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20 Strategies to Boost Your Healthcare Marketing Campaigns

By | May 06, 2019

Think about the last time you went online to search for healthcare information. Maybe it was for quick answers about possible causes of the lingering headache you’ve had over the past few weeks. Or maybe you wanted tips on the best way to remove a stubborn splinter from your first grader’s foot.

It isn’t surprising that your first inclination would be to open up a browser in Google – before even calling your doctor’s office. Pew Research Center data shows 77% of all health inquiries begin at a search engine, with 72% of total Internet users say they’ve looked online for health information within the past year.

So, what does this mean for healthcare marketers? More

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Evariant

Evariant provides a leading healthcare CRM solution suite designed to help health systems transform the healthcare experience for their consumers, patients, and physicians. Built on the Salesforce Platform, our solutions foster richer consumer/patient engagement and tighter physician alignment. Powered by cutting-edge data and analytics, Evariant enables health systems to effectively communicate care options that increase revenue and market share, while optimizing network utilization. Many of the top health systems have selected Evariant to thrive in today’s hyper-competitive and rapidly changing environment.
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Improve the Call Center Experience with a Proactive Engagement Strategy

By | February 06, 2019

The overwhelming majority of patients (75 percent) report using a customer call center to interact with their health system. Even though the call center is responsible for handling numerous customer touchpoints, many hospitals still provide experiences that are about as appealing as calling a cable company.

Within these interactions, patients must cope with long wait times and multiple transfers, and call center agents that subsequently have no background information on them or their unique situations. This impersonal form of engagement allows health systems to handle a high volume of call center interactions, but not provide the quality patients are looking for; poor call center interactions fail to deliver any strategic value, provide cross-sell opportunities, or extend patient lifetime value.

A call center equipped with HCRM capabilities, or an Engagement Center, allows call center agents to provide convenient service that supports marketing and business development initiatives, streamlines workflow, and improves patient engagement and satisfaction. Engaging patients through a CRM-enabled call center allows health systems to take advantage of patient data, thus providing proactive and personalized interactions that keep customers happy, healthy, and in-network.

Let’s take a closer look at how a proactive engagement strategy can help improve the call center experience:

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Evariant

Evariant provides a leading healthcare CRM solution suite designed to help health systems transform the healthcare experience for their consumers, patients, and physicians. Built on the Salesforce Platform, our solutions foster richer consumer/patient engagement and tighter physician alignment. Powered by cutting-edge data and analytics, Evariant enables health systems to effectively communicate care options that increase revenue and market share, while optimizing network utilization. Many of the top health systems have selected Evariant to thrive in today’s hyper-competitive and rapidly changing environment.
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4 Core Benefits of Transforming the Healthcare Call Center

By | November 01, 2018

When we talk to organizations about their healthcare call center, we hear about the following challenges:

  • Operates in a silo: Marketing has little visibility into how the call center is contributing to lead-to-patient conversions and/or revenue. This makes marketing attribution and proving ROI difficult.
  • Agents aren’t able to be proactive: A customer on the phone is an opportunity to provide value and excellent customer service, but agents don’t have the information necessary to proactively engage with customers efficiently and effectively.
  • Unable to integrate with marketing campaigns: Activating the call center as an optimized channel for patient engagement means the ability to field inbound calls and incorporate targeted outbound calling initiatives.
  • Disconnected patient journeys: Patient acquisition and retention is a multi-channel journey and the call center needs to be integrated as a key part of marketing initiatives.
  • Lacking efficiencies – Agents are using up to 10 different applications and tools while managing a call and trying to stay focused on giving the patient an exceptional patient experience.
  • Unable to show value – Call centers aren’t able to track the activities and metrics that contribute to the revenue for the health system. This results in the call center being classified as a cost center and not a revenue center.

Outside of an appointment or physical visit to a hospital, the call center is the one channel that provides a clear one on one personal connection between a hospital and a customer.

As healthcare organizations work to improve their customer experience across the board, the call center needs to be a key part of those efforts.

However, transformation of a healthcare call center takes time, money, and executive buy-in. At the heart of it, it’s about integrating the call center’s contributions into the greater marketing strategy through an HCRM-enabled engagement center solution.

To convince leadership teams of the need to transform the healthcare call center, here are four compelling benefits:
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Evariant

Evariant provides a leading healthcare CRM solution suite designed to help health systems transform the healthcare experience for their consumers, patients, and physicians. Built on the Salesforce Platform, our solutions foster richer consumer/patient engagement and tighter physician alignment. Powered by cutting-edge data and analytics, Evariant enables health systems to effectively communicate care options that increase revenue and market share, while optimizing network utilization. Many of the top health systems have selected Evariant to thrive in today’s hyper-competitive and rapidly changing environment.
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