#SHSMD17 in 17 Tweets – Perspectives on Healthcare Marketing

The AHA’s Society for Healthcare Strategists and Marketing Development recently held its annual conference – SHSMD17 – in Orlando Florida. For three full days, 1,500 attendees shared ideas and traded insights on the latest trends healthcare marketing trends. The 60+ concurrent sessions covered a variety of topics including:

  • Developing online support groups for patients
  • Successful blog-driven content marketing
  • Media relationships
  • Communication and preparedness during a crisis
  • Chatbots
  • Consumerism

For daily summaries of SHSMD17, check out these Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 blogs. As well see this blog on the release of SHSMD’s Bridging Worlds 2.0 report during the conference.

If I had to pick an overall theme for SHSMD17 it would have to be “perspective”. The four keynote speakers and many of the session presenters urged the audience to break out of our boxes in order to truly “see” healthcare from multiple viewpoints – including patients, clinicians and government. Only by putting ourselves into the shoes of healthcare’s various stakeholders can we create effective marketing campaigns and hospital programs.

During the conference, there was a lot of live-tweeting and there were many conversations happening via social media with people who were not in attendance. I thought it would be fun to highlight 17 tweets from SHSMD17.

Here goes.

Fun SHSMD17 Tweets

 

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Colin Hung

Colin Hung is the co-founder of the #hcldr (healthcare leadership) tweetchat one of the most popular and active healthcare social media communities on Twitter. Colin speaks, tweets and blogs regularly about healthcare, technology, marketing and leadership. He is currently an independent marketing consultant working with leading healthIT companies. Colin is a member of #TheWalkingGallery. His Twitter handle is: @Colin_Hung.

   

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