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The healthcare industry is experiencing rapid transformation, making it difficult for enterprises to keep up. Stay ahead of the curve by exploring lessons and insights learned from the frontlines. Our resources are curated by Upfront experts and thought leaders to guide successful strategy implementation and change at your organization. Read blog posts, view case studies, watch videos, and more.
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The Power of Psychographics in Healthcare
The key to motivating healthcare consumer behaviors starts with psychographics. Segmenting people by their attitudes, values, lifestyles, and personalities gets to the root of their motivation and allows you to target interactions based on their preferred communication style.
Embracing Personalization to Drive Patient Engagement
The healthcare industry continues to lag behind consumers’ preference for convenience and experience — leading to increased competition from retail players and patient defection. Learn why health systems need to ditch their “one size fits all” approach and embrace personalization to create a positive patient experience.
Activating Patients to Take Charge of Their Health
Do you know the most underutilized resource in healthcare? Patients. That’s why it’s critical to curate a humanized experience at scale. When patients feel seen and heard they are more likely to take action. By combining behavioral science with psychographics, healthcare organizations can get to know their patients on the deepest level and get them to necessary care.
On Demand Webinar – HDM Klasroom Readmission
Fierce Healthcare, Staff
How can healthcare organizations successfully execute a unified patient engagement strategy amid the fragmented technologies, stakeholders, and strategies across the care continuum? The solution must include rethinking system-wide governance to execute a unified patient engagement strategy.
What healthcare gets wrong about patient engagement (Hint: Sending a text message isn’t enough.)
Lindsay Zimmerman, PhD, MPH, Vice President, Bartosch Patient Activation Institute
Sending mass text messages and simply crossing our fingers that patients will follow through with visits isn’t enough to win their trust or stand against the competition. So, how can healthcare enterprises earn patient loyalty? There is no silver bullet, and it certainly isn’t going to work until advanced personalization, a skill companies such as Amazon have already mastered, becomes a top strategic priority across the entire organization.
As urgent care center demand grows, Upfront launches a dedicated business unit to serve the expanding sector
Upfront Healthcare, Staff
Upfront Healthcare is doubling down on its support of urgent care centers with the launch of a new business unit dedicated to creating sustained patient loyalty and revenue in the high-demand sector.
The spotlight is on … Shanika Gracien, Data Analyst
Upfront Healthcare, Staff
Helping people has always been in Shanika Gracien’s DNA. So, it wasn’t a surprise that the daughter of Haitian immigrants would choose to follow an enviable path into healthcare. But after studying to become a physician’s assistant in college, and interning for various clinics and hospitals, Shanika encountered one, slight problem: “I realized I didn’t like the sight of blood,” she laughs. Here’s how Shanika pivoted her career journey to combine her love for helping others with a role in tech to advance patient health from behind the scenes, as a Data Analyst at Upfront.
5 Effective Hospital Patient Loyalty Programs to Know
Brent Walker, Strategic Advisor
Loyalty programs are common in most of the business world, but they are relatively new within the field of healthcare. However, as the need to boost patient loyalty increases, more hospitals are exploring the idea of implementing hospital patient loyalty programs in their institutions. Benefits of Patient Loyalty Programs Patient loyalty programs offer several benefits […]
3 Practical Examples of Psychographic Segmentation in Marketing
Brent Walker, Strategic Advisor
In today’s digitally-driven economy, it’s a common practice for marketers and advertisers of all kinds to collect data about the consumers and prospects who interact with their brand. Today’s well-informed consumer also understands this fact, and as a result, they generally expect a higher level of engagement with the companies whose products or services they […]
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