What’s New at Onspire Health Marketing

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The Consumer Quest for Well-Being

This edition of our #lifecare blog series explores how products that enable consumers to take more control of health needs are creating a “well-being” state of mind. There has been a notable uptick in consumer use of products, services and web/mobile applications that cater to their increasing desire to maintain an overall healthy state of being. The connected wearable device category alone reached 453 million

Healthcare Marketing: Authentic Brands vs. Pigs in Lipstick

All the marketing in the world will not fix a lack of operational readiness, nor improve customer experience. Brands must be ready and able to deliver on their promises before going to market. Brand is an intangible asset that lives in the hearts and minds of your customers. It is shaped by consumer expectations born from your organization’s actions and communications. It stands to reason,

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Healthcare is Human: 4 Reasons to Invest in Interaction as a Marketing & Branding Strategy

Despite the important conversations we’re all having about our changing healthcare landscape, one thing remains constant: old-school customer service still reigns. Having overseen a busy call center in a large academic medical center for many years, I know those over-the-phone touch points are among the biggest moments of opportunity to build lifetime customers. In fact, a call between a patient or consumer and a member

Consumer Demands Give Rise to Telehealth Adoption, and the Value is Becoming Evident

This edition of our #lifecare blog series explores how the rising consumer demand for telehealth is better preparing healthcare providers for long-term sustainability. In “The Emerging Lifecare Model: How consumerism is driving industry collaboration toward health and lifecare as a new strategic platform,” we define lifecare as a new, consumer-centric ecosystem that offers integrated health-related services across the full continuum of consumer needs. Today’s consumers

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Healthcare Consolidation: How Non-Traditional Partnerships are Improving Consumer Options

In our first #lifecare series blog post, we addressed how consumer knowledge shifts are driving change. Through advances in technology, in particular, consumers have better access to information about their health and are playing a more prominent role in their health-related decisions. They are responding with increased demand for more and better information. To keep pace with this demand, traditional and non-traditional entities are joining

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The Rise of Platform Strategies: How Healthcare Consumer Knowledge Shifts are Driving Change

Together with HealthScape Advisors, we recently coauthored a white paper called, The Emerging Lifecare Model: How consumerism is driving industry collaboration toward health and lifecare as a new strategic platform. In the paper, we explore how healthcare strategies are shifting, creating a transformation in the financing and delivery of consumer services. Think of lifecare as a new, consumer-centric ecosystem, one that offers integrated health-related services

Brand promise vs. mission statement

After Rebranding Your Hospital: Five Guiding Principles to Brand Sustainability

If you have recently launched a new brand at your healthcare organization, you are well aware that your brand is not a logo – your brand is an intangible asset that resides in people’s hearts and minds. It is defined by expectations developed over time though communication and, more importantly, through actions. While you have good reason to celebrate a successful launch, it is important

White Paper: Lifecare Strategies for Health Industry Leaders

The Emerging Lifecare Model: A Platform Strategy for a Healthy Future

For organizations that operate within the U.S. healthcare system, change has become inevitable. Several major market forces are converging to change the size, shape, and scope of healthcare financing and delivery. Born from the premise that population health management must adapt to emphasize prevention as well as treatment, healthcare is now actively transforming into lifecare. Engaging people in their desire to remain healthy—beyond just receiving

The lifecare platform strategy connects community partners in a virtual, consumer-centric ecosystem.

The Rise of Consumerism in Healthcare Calls for a New Strategic Platform

New Executive Briefing Explores the “Lifecare Model” for Health Systems and Health Plans Kansas City, Mo. – June 20, 2017 – In a merging of the minds between strategy experts for health systems and health plans, Dobies Health Marketing and HealthScape Advisors have co-authored a white paper called, “The Emerging Lifecare Model: How Consumerism is Driving Industry Collaboration Toward Health and Lifecare as a New

Strong brands demonstrate true alignment of the company’s rational and logical business strategy with its emotional and human culture.

Strategy, Culture and Brand: The Unbreakable Link for Success in Healthcare Marketing

Effective leaders recognize that business strategy, culture and brand strategy are inseparable. The ability to link these three core components together from the top-down is critical to creating and maintaining a successful healthcare brand. Strong brands demonstrate true alignment of the company’s rational and logical business strategy with its emotional and human culture. In other words, strategy and culture combine to drive business results and