Using Interactive Media to Enhance Patient Experience and Create Brand Preference

© 2010 Incite Chicago

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Using Interactive Mediato Enhance the Patient’s

Experience and Create Brand Preference

Terry KasdanJohn Olson


Using Interactive Media to Enhance the Patient's Experience and Create Brand Preference

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Road Map

•Rising expectations•Hospitals’ response• Staying ahead of the curve• Interactive services and the brand


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Consumer Expectations

The Case for Interactive Technology in Healthcare Marketing



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Interactive Tech and Consumer Expectations



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How Might This Impact Patient Expectations?

•Compare treatment modalities and results?• Ask other patients about their experiences•Converse with medical staff•Have access to data 24/7•Research medical conditions and treatments



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How are hospitals responding?



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What’s the next wave?

•Mobile applications?– 91% of Americans will have mobile phones in 2010– 20% of Americans had smartphones by 2009 end– Smartphones expected to reach 50% penetration of US mobile

phone users by 3Q 2011

SOURCE: The Nielsen Company, March 26, 2010



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Case Histories

Examples of Interactive Technology in Healthcare Marketing



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Applications that enhance the patient experience

•Mobile “Digital Diary” Application• Interactive Educational Games• Information to Alleviate Patients’ Pre-Procedure Anxiety

and Promote Post-Procedure Compliance• Online Integrated Medical Supply Store


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Log, track, and chart:

• Nutrition

• Exercise

• Weight

• Blood pressure

• Medications


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Mobile Apps Inexpensively:• Purchase and brand off-the-shelf packages

• Subscribe to services

• Leverage tools such as Google Maps



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Additional ideas for mobile apps

• Appointment Reminders•Medication Reminders•Medical Data on SIM card• Patient Information for Relatives• Food Product Dietary Information/Nutrition Coaching•Medication Compliance Monitoring

From “101 Things to Do with Mobile Phones in Healthcare,” by The Mobile Health Crowd

www.themobilehealthcrowd.com/?q=node/39



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Interactive Educational Games

• Package information that may be available elsewhere in new and exciting ways• Educate the community and promote preventative

health care while building the organization's brand


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Information to Alleviate Patients’ Pre-ProcedureAnxiety and Promote Post-Procedure Compliance

•Give patients the information they crave about their scheduled procedures•Use pictures and videos to give patients a virtual

experience• Allow patients to download post-procedure information

and instructions ahead of time


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Online Integrated Medical Supply Store

• Enables patients to conveniently and affordably obtain the products they need to heal by giving them quick and easy access to products prescribed by their doctors•Quick and easy to deploy


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An opportunity for differentiation

•Hospitals all promise essentially the same end benefits– Improved health and well-being

•Can lead to look-alike branding and advertising



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• “The true nature of e-service is providing consumers with a superior experience with respect to the interactive flow of information.”• “Service provides the opportunity for differentiation.”

Roland Rust, University of MarylandKatherine Lemon, Boston CollegeInt’l. Jrnl. Of Electronic Commerce, Spring 2001



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Developing interactive programs

•What should those programs be?•How can interactive technology help the organization

deliver on its promises?•What benefits promised in the brand positioning might

be delivered?



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A process for planning and development

• 1. Form an interdisciplinary team – nursing– customer service– administration– service line directors– marketing/PR– IT– Interactive developers



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• 2. Consider hospital’s mission, positioning and branding. What are the promises?– Superior clinical care?– Superior patient experience?– Patient/provider teamwork?– Others?



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• 3. Identify pain points– Long wait times?– Chaotic environment?– Incomplete medical histories?– Confusing answers and instructions?– Anxiety caused by uncertainty?– What are some others?



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• 4. Ideation sessions– What might be all the ways we could eliminate pain points?– How might technology help?– Use ideation techniques for creative problem solving?



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• 5. Opportunity for competitive advantage or new norm?– Research competitors– Test– Meet new norms– Create competitive advantage



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• 6. Research sources for application development– Leverage your existing ad agency and Web developer

relationships

• 7. Assess cost vs. impact


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Interactive Programs in Branding and

Communications

How to Use Them to Support Your Brand



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Inside-out Branding



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Advertising/Branding Implications

• Ask the following questions…– What?– So What?– Now What?



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•What?– Describe the interactive service? What does it do, how is it

different?• i.e. a patient portal where you can schedule appointments and see lab results, contact doctors, pay bills, refill prescriptions?



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• So What?

Rational Emotional

Greater convenience in scheduling

I know your time is valuable

Faster access to test results I want to reduce your anxiety

Medication/follow-up appointment reminders for greater patient compliance

We’re looking out for you



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•Now What?– Take a tour of the portal– Ask an employee for more information– Register and start using the portal– Download the application



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Advertising Examples

•NorthShore University Health System – Promotes their portal in TV commercial– Provides a support point for claim “Excellence is all around

you”

Imagine health care that partners with you…putting you at the heart of a health care network.

At NorthShore University Health System, you’re empowered with the nation’s most advanced medical records system…

So wherever you are, you can go online to

view your records, book appointments…

and stay in touch with your doctors.

Connecting you to the safest,

most accurate health care possible.

At NorthShore University Health System, excellence is all around you.



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Brand Position Rational Benefit

Emotional Benefit

Advanced Medicine

Faster, more accurate communication

Trust

Advanced patient care

Caring Staff gets me the info I need

Trust

Vast Network Accessibility, Convenience

Security

How interactive media might support a brand



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• Leadership• Engagement•Understand brand better



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Thank you!

Terry Kasdan@ [email protected]

John OlsonINC!TE [email protected]

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Using Interactive Media to Enhance Patient Experience and Create Brand Preference