Using Healthcare Data to Identify Opportunities in Your Market

By | July 16, 2019

In today’s healthcare environment, it’s challenging for organizations to pinpoint exactly where ripe opportunities exist. This stems from a lack of access to valuable contributing data inputs and/or the ability to conduct analysis on – or across – multiple data sets. 

At its crux, identifying healthcare opportunities should be a result of discovering underlying needs within a customer or physician segment, service line, and/or geographical area.

However, many healthcare organizations simply don’t have the necessary analytical power to uncover these valuable insights, partially due to siloed consumer, patient, and physician data.

As a result, it’s important to leverage a tool that can store, organize, and analyze large amounts of data from all corners of the organization. In addition to this, tools that guide users to the most important insights achieve faster time to value – creating high-value opportunities.

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Jessica Friedeman

Jessica Friedeman

Jessica Friedeman serves Evariant as Vice President, Product Marketing. Leveraging over a decade of experience in the healthcare industry, Jessica provides product, strategy and industry support so as to deliver solutions that maximize client’s marketing and organizational strategy. Jessica additionally served Evariant as Vice President, Solutions Engineering, lending technical support to the sales process. Prior to Evariant, she served as Director, Solutions Support at Truven Health Analytics (now IBM Watson Health), where she was responsible for ensuring the successful positioning and growth of the Marketing & Planning business lines.

3 Ways to Improve Patient Retention Through Post-Discharge Calling

By | February 27, 2019

A surprising number of patients –  1 in 5, in fact – experience an adverse post-discharge event such as infections or procedural complications within 30 days of release. This adds a significant cost to the United States healthcare system, contributing an extra $15 to $20 billion annually. What’s more, 30 percent of these readmissions are preventable, and nearly a quarter are ameliorable.

It’s no secret that hospitals need to address the post-discharge problem; in November 2015, CMS proposed a ruling that requires hospitals to establish post-discharge follow-up programs. Furthermore, post-discharge calls have started to become an essential element of payer reimbursements – some insurers require patient answers to post-discharge survey questions – which makes them absolutely crucial for health systems’ financial standings.

But looking at post-discharge calling solely as a requirement for earning payer reimbursements is a mistake; checking in with patients after clinical appointments provides the opportunity to ensure patients adhere to their ongoing care instructions, schedule future appointments, recommend referrals, and more. All of these initiatives enhance the patient experience and create patients for life. In fact, Accenture found that hospitals that provide superior patient experiences achieve up to 50 percent higher margins.

A patient’s journey shouldn’t end when he or she is released from the hospital; communication post-discharge increases long-term loyalty. By updating call center processes, you can optimize post-discharge calling to focus on improving patient retention and regain the estimated $8 billion in lost revenue.

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Jessica Friedeman

Jessica Friedeman

Jessica Friedeman serves Evariant as Vice President, Product Marketing. Leveraging over a decade of experience in the healthcare industry, Jessica provides product, strategy and industry support so as to deliver solutions that maximize client’s marketing and organizational strategy. Jessica additionally served Evariant as Vice President, Solutions Engineering, lending technical support to the sales process. Prior to Evariant, she served as Director, Solutions Support at Truven Health Analytics (now IBM Watson Health), where she was responsible for ensuring the successful positioning and growth of the Marketing & Planning business lines.

5 Strategies to Drive Patient Retention in the Digital Age

By | December 05, 2018

Across industries, increasing customer retention rates by 5 percent increases profits anywhere between 25 to 95 percent. This may frame patient retention as an obvious way to increase profits, but in the current healthcare market, it’s much easier said than done.

Why? Patients have become discerning customers – they have plenty of healthcare options, and aren’t hesitant to shop around and compare healthcare networks on patient care, price, and overall experience. Furthermore, Millennial customers, who already outnumber the Baby Boomer generation, are more likely to proactively research cost information, medication coverage, and doctor quality ratings.

With the ever-changing healthcare landscape, marketers must put a focus on patient retention in order to achieve significant growth for your health system. Attracting new patients is beneficial, but keeping them within your healthcare network has the potential for greater ROI.

Let’s take a closer look at five strategies to drive patient retention in the digital age:

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Jessica Friedeman

Jessica Friedeman

Jessica Friedeman serves Evariant as Vice President, Product Marketing. Leveraging over a decade of experience in the healthcare industry, Jessica provides product, strategy and industry support so as to deliver solutions that maximize client’s marketing and organizational strategy. Jessica additionally served Evariant as Vice President, Solutions Engineering, lending technical support to the sales process. Prior to Evariant, she served as Director, Solutions Support at Truven Health Analytics (now IBM Watson Health), where she was responsible for ensuring the successful positioning and growth of the Marketing & Planning business lines.

How to Optimize Payer Mix with Data and Technology

By | October 03, 2018

To effectively meet the healthcare needs of the community, which has traditionally been the primary mission of a healthcare system, it’s crucial that hospitals and other healthcare organizations have positive sources of income. This helps to ensure that quality healthcare services can be extended to as many patients as possible.

As the shift toward value-based healthcare and choice/consumerism continues to impact the way consumers manage their healthcare, hospitals are facing the challenge of balancing – and optimizing – their payer mix (commercial, Medicare, etc.).

This issue is coming even more into focus as new healthcare options are available, especially for commercial payers. With more discretionary income, commercial payers are opting to seek out other healthcare alternatives beyond the traditional health system, such as walk-in clinics, telehealth, and alternative care. To compound the issue, traditional consumer brands (such as Amazon) are entering the healthcare space, leaving hospitals with new competitors and a host of new challenges in patient acquisition and retention.

Healthcare marketers have the ability to step in and strategically target healthcare patients and consumers to optimize payer mix. With the right data and technology, they can bring in the door a greater percentage of commercial payers than is typical for the hospital or service line – and, as a result, generate higher ROI for specific high-value service lines.

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Jessica Friedeman

Jessica Friedeman

Jessica Friedeman serves Evariant as Vice President, Product Marketing. Leveraging over a decade of experience in the healthcare industry, Jessica provides product, strategy and industry support so as to deliver solutions that maximize client’s marketing and organizational strategy. Jessica additionally served Evariant as Vice President, Solutions Engineering, lending technical support to the sales process. Prior to Evariant, she served as Director, Solutions Support at Truven Health Analytics (now IBM Watson Health), where she was responsible for ensuring the successful positioning and growth of the Marketing & Planning business lines.

How to Optimize Growth with Data-Driven Patient Engagement

By | August 30, 2018

effective patient engagementIn order to grow, health systems need to do two things: acquire and retain a greater number of patients. By doing so, healthcare organizations increase the numbers of patients they serve, boosting revenue in both the short- and long-term.

Effective patient engagement supports not only getting patients in the door, but also developing relationships that last a lifetime. Patient engagement is about involving patients in their own care; when done well, it’s been shown to improve health outcomes, lower care costs, and create patient loyalty.

Leveraging healthcare data and analytics is vital to a successful patient engagement strategy; this intelligence informs how marketers engage with individuals and specific groups of patients. The first step to a data-driven strategy is implementing these four key technology platforms:

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Jessica Friedeman

Jessica Friedeman

Jessica Friedeman serves Evariant as Vice President, Product Marketing. Leveraging over a decade of experience in the healthcare industry, Jessica provides product, strategy and industry support so as to deliver solutions that maximize client’s marketing and organizational strategy. Jessica additionally served Evariant as Vice President, Solutions Engineering, lending technical support to the sales process. Prior to Evariant, she served as Director, Solutions Support at Truven Health Analytics (now IBM Watson Health), where she was responsible for ensuring the successful positioning and growth of the Marketing & Planning business lines.