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How to promote the launch of a new hospital facility or clinic

Start telling your story early, and share lots of information as construction proceeds Launching a new initiative such as a new hospital facility or clinic requires a proactive communications approach in order to make the initiative a success from day one. Here are some suggestions for how to communicate to all your audiences over the lifetime of the project, from the initial planning stages through to your opening events.

How does communication contribute to the success of your hospital?

If you want your stakeholders to listen, you have to prove that your messages have value The perception that key stakeholders like referring physicians and patients have about your hospital is crucial. If it’s good, your stakeholders want to serve or be served by your hospital. On the other hand, if people hold a negative perception about your hospital, it can have an impact on everything from staff retention to patient volumes. A differentiated positioning sharpens the perception of the value of a hospital, increasing its attractiveness in the eyes of all audiences. So how can you boost the perception of your hospital? To answer this question, there are two key areas to explore: How can you develop a relationship with your target groups that is based on trust? And how can you become a reliable partner that people listen to?

What is the service concept of your hospital?

When you make your service orientation clear, everyone knows what to expect from your organization In the competitive hospital world, it’s important that all of your stakeholders – employees, patients, referring physicians, suppliers and others – know what your hospital stands for. Whether your service concept is ‘patient intimacy,’ ‘operational excellence’ or to be a ‘competence center of excellence,’ for example, all of your communications and activities must reinforce and support it.

Commercializing a new medical device? 3 critical success factors to consider

Launching a new medical device is a complicated process. First, of course, you have to come up with a concept. What do you want your technology to do, and how will it do it? There’s that initial period of blue-sky thinking and prototype development, where you refine your technology and determine whether it’s viable. Then, once you decide to move ahead with commercialization, and you’ve achieved your safety and efficacy goals, the pace picks up, and suddenly you’re on a fast track to your launch target date.

Expanding into audio: should you add a podcast to your B2B marketing mix?

Remember “audioblogging”? The first audioblogs, or podcasts, were introduced more than 20 years ago. In the decades since, podcasting has evolved from these clunky first recordings into a billion-dollar industry. In the past five years, it’s ramped up even faster, with podcast listenership doubling worldwide since 2016.

Branding for B2B vs. B2C: a lot more than a one-letter difference

The concept of branding started with our ancestors "branding" cattle so they could easily pick their own animals from a larger herd. Today, a "brand" stands for much more than the mere identification of a product. With a good brand, you can create an emotional bond between your product and your customer.

Healthcare marketing in times of COVID-19 and after: in the midst of chaos, there is opportunity

Hospitals are scaling up to more COVID-19 capacity at the expense of non-COVID-linked activities. Many clinicians will be forced to reschedule their activities from home in anticipation of the decline in Corona numbers. As a healthcare vendor, how do you learn to surf the waves of these (and coming) pandemics?

Change management and big data analytics: need-to-know skills for healthcare marketers

Healthcare changes faster and is more complex than almost any other industry, meaning that healthcare marketers face a unique set of challenges. But change management hasn’t typically been part of the healthcare marketer’s skillset. It’s the same for big data analytics expertise. Increasingly, however, these are emerging as two of the most important skills that a healthcare marketer can have.i

The rise of the healthcare consumer: what it means for B2B healthcare marketers

We all do it – we experience an ache or a pain, and we turn to Google to help us figure out what’s wrong, and what we should do about it. Health has been one of the most-searched topics since the very beginning of the internet. And it’s just another way that the internet has served as a disruptor – by offering unprecedented access and amounts of information, the internet has in many ways replaced the hard-to-reach G.P. or other healthcare provider.

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