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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.
Upfront Healthcare CEO and Co-Founder Ben Albert Joins Day Zero Podcast to Share Entrepreneurial Journey
Ben Albert, CEO & Co-Founder
CEO and Co-Founder Ben Albert didn’t expect to be an entrepreneur, but his experience watching his father build a paper company was the start of an adventure that, years later, led to founding Upfront Healthcare. Albert shared these details and more this week on the Day Zero podcast, which highlights stories from healthcare entrepreneurs. Host […]
Healthcare is (still) broken. Now what?
Carrie Kozlowski, COO & Co-Founder
Like so many of us do this time of year, I resolved to begin to take better care of myself, to catch up on the care I missed while too busy looking after my family, clients, and a company full of employees. As a healthcare professional dedicated to simplifying healthcare for patients and ensuring everyone […]
Learn how Upfront cut emergency visits in half and reduced hospital readmission rates at Allina Health
Allina Health needed a proactive, digital solution that could engage total joint replacement candidates and guide them along the care journey. Discover how Upfront steered its technology and expertise to help the Midwest-based system reduce hospital readmissions and bolster post-surgical success.
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.
Now that breast cancer screenings have been dialed back to age 40, healthcare enterprises must plan ahead to tackle emerging care gaps
Carrie Kozlowski, COO & Co-Founder
As if patients’ slow return to care following the pandemic wasn’t a challenging premise enough, healthcare enterprises now face an emerging care gap — in breast health. Last week, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued new draft guidelines about preventative care, effectively dropping the age of recommended breast cancer screening to a decade earlier, from the age of 50 to just 40 years.
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