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Your Healthcare Organization Platform’s Second Most Important Page

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Digital Platforms, Healthcare Revenue

The most important part of every healthcare organization’s digital platform is the website homepage. Hopefully, that should go without saying. But what is the next most valuable piece of digital real estate? Is it your Billing page? Your About page? Your Find a...

Is Healthcare Social Media Just a Waste of Time?

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Revenue, Social Media

I deeply believe if a healthcare organization doesn’t have clarity of mission then their social media efforts can often just be a waste of time: a one-person offshoot of the marketing department, or an irritating digital space where negative patient comments...

Why Did Physicians Become “Providers”?

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Revenue

Words matter. About 10 to 15 years ago. depending on the healthcare system we physicians were affiliated with, we started to see the ubiquitous use of the terms PCP ( Primary Care “Provider” ) and HCP ( ‘Healthcare “Provider”). This was done with little fanfare with...

Why Healthcare Marketing Departments Need a Medical Director

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare 3.0, Healthcare Revenue, Social Media

Most healthcare organizations will have some combination of a mission statement, a core principles statement, or a values statement , and invariably, when you look at these, there will be significant attention placed on the improved health or quality of life of their...

Healthcare Technology: Does the Backend Benefit Outweigh the Human Cost?

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare 3.0, Healthcare Revenue

I  remember a day , 14 years ago,  when our medical director met with a large Urgent Care group  about the switch from paper charts to an Electronic Health Record. (EHR). I thought to myself – “Uh-oh, we are going to lose something here.” I wasn’t mistaken. Our...

Amazon, Apple et al. Are they moral?

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare 3.0, Healthcare Revenue, Social Media Ethics

(et al. – from the latin et alia (neuter pleural), st alii (masculine plural), and et alii (feminine pleural) meaning “and others”.) The Big 4+1 are (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, &  Google) + Microsoft.  These are the tech giants which will be dominating the...
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