Health Care Trends

OK, so the hype around iPads and healthcare may have some truth to it. So what does that mean to marketers? Some marketers talk about how health care companies can market their wares through apps. Sure. Build an app, if it makes sense for you. Or they talk about iPad’s implications for mobile marketing. Yawn. [...]

Time to start believing the iPad+Healthcare hype?

by Don Seamons on March 29, 2011

When the iPad 2 was released, I braced myself for the deluge of bloggers and tweeters who would find some connection between iPad 2 and healthcare. The deluge was significant. And much of what was discussed was at best hyperbole and at worst search engine baiting. What was worse was the number of iPad+Healthcare+Marketing posts [...]

Are you marketing eHealth or Health IT?

by Don Seamons on March 28, 2011

Back at HIMSS11 in Orlando, I had a nice conversation with Bill Oravecz, a consultant who specializes in helping doctors make smart decisions about EMRs. He asked a question that I as a marketer hadn’t thought of before. “What is eHealth?” He must have noticed the puzzled look on my face because he kindly answered [...]

With all the great things happening in the health IT market in 2010, it’s easy to forget that the economy continued to be a strain on providers. Add the down economy to regulatory requirements related to ICD-10 and EMRs, and those who provide care will continue to be burdened by financial worries in 2011. Consider [...]

Health B2B Year in Review: What marketers can learn from the year of the merger

21 January 2011

2010 was a big year for mergers and acquisitions, especially among the big hitters who were positioning themselves to benefit from stimulus money. Allscripts acquiring Eclipsys, Aetna buying Medicity, MedQuist high-bidding for Spheris, Francisco Partners purchasing QuadraMed and Quantros, and Ingenix acquiring Axolotl (and A-Life, PICIS, and EHR) all made the news. Some acquisitions were [...]

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Health B2B Year in Review: What marketers can learn from health reform

14 January 2011

The year 2010 will go down in history as the year the United States passed health reform. It wasn’t as sweeping as many had hoped. And it went way too far for some people. But the fact of the matter is this: the country saw that the number of uninsured was unacceptable, and they passed [...]

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Time for health care marketers to jump on the ICD-10 train

4 June 2010

Health care B2B marketers: If you think ARRA was a big deal—to quote the immortal Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive—you ain’t seen nothing yet. The impending conversion from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS has been on provider’s radar since 2009, but it hasn’t received widespread attention until this year. Its effect on the health care industry has [...]

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Marketing won’t save failing hospitals

26 May 2010

I saw two tweets during the past week that triggered the same red flag: they proffered marketing as the savior for ailing hospitals. This marketer is skeptical. Here are the tweets: @KarenEllis1: St Vincent in Manhattan Shutters – What I Wish They Knew About Increasing Patient Volume #hcmktg http://dld.bz/chsr @mspier: Excellent piece on how aggressive [...]

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Health care IT marketers: Join in the meaningful use conversation

5 January 2010

If you sell products that are affected by HHS’s new meaningful use rulings, you should be working right now to take attach your brand to this topic.

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A health care top 10 list worth reading

30 December 2009

Tis the season for Top 10 lists. Most of these lists are just random musings from some guy who doesn’t really know much more than you or I. But I found this list by PriceWaterhouseCoopers worth a second look.

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