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.

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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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What Healthcare Can Learn from Retail Call Centers

By | August 02, 2018

The retail industry has been at the forefront of customer experience and personalization—extending their innovations to a variety of channels, including digital marketing and call center.

As the healthcare landscape continues to move toward a customer-centric approach, what can healthcare learn from the retail space? More specifically, what lessons can retail call centers offer the healthcare sector to help marketers provide better personalization in their engagements with consumers and patients?

In this post, we’ll explore three ways retail call centers provide experiences that healthcare leaders can incorporate to provide the personalization needed to impact consumers in today’s evolving healthcare marketing landscape.

Lesson 1: Create Simple, Efficient Experiences

Within the retail sector, simplicity can lead to better overall customer satisfaction. According to Marketing Week, 62 percent of consumers are willing to pay more for a simple, straightforward experience. Retail call centers understand that simpler experiences translate to higher customer retention, more referral traffic, and better overall brand loyalty. But how do they provide simplicity in a way that can benefit healthcare marketing? The answer lies in connecting the dots on patient/consumer needs, combining them for a simplified solution to suit their healthcare needs. 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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Using Propensity Models to Drive Direct Mail Results in Healthcare

By | July 27, 2018

With the average person receiving over 2,900 marketing messages a day, consumers have grown accustomed to a barrage of marketing messaging during their daily routines. Most of these messages are ignored, especially if they’re not relevant to the recipient.

To increase the probability of engagement, many hospitals and healthcare organizations are using multi-channel approaches – a combination of digital and traditional channels to optimize initial outreach, drive long-term engagement, and convert leads.

Digital options, such as email marketing, are an undeniably cost-effective way of reaching consumers and moving them through the sales funnel. However, the most successful marketers complement those messages with targeted traditional marketing efforts. Direct mail is one of the most common – and effective – methods used in the healthcare industry. Why? Because direct mail marketing simply works.

However, given the time it takes to create, print, and send direct mail, it can be expensive. To optimize results and generate ROI, marketers need to be sure that direct mail is being sent to the best prospects. In this effort, propensity modeling can be a valuable tool.

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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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