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Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

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Dan Dunlop is a healthcare marketer, brand consultant, blogger, public speaker and author. He is the president of Jennings, a branding and advertising agency based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His clients in the life sciences have included major academic medical centers, regional and... Full Bio
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Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson’s TEDx Talk: Why Are Patients Not Finding Their Doctors Online? by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Last week someone Tweeted a link to Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson’s TEDx Talk: “Why are patients not finding their doctors online?” I’ve know Dr. Swanson for a few years now and ... Read on »
An Assortment of Healthcare & Hospital Print Ads by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy We are in the middle of conference season. For me, that means a lot of time on airplanes traveling to speaking engagement along with my usual client-related travel. When I ... Read on »
Using Video to Communicate about Rare Diseases by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Facing Fabry Together is an educational film, produced by Genzyme, that tells the captivating stories of four families from around the world that are living with Fabry d ... Read on »
Vanderbilt Heart’s “Walk the Walk” Music Video by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This music video speaks for itself. Wow. The team at Vanderbilt Heart is made up of some talented folks, and I’m not just talking about medicine. These people sing and per ... Read on »
The Word of the Day is Community by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the 2013 Pelvic Health Conference in Denver, Colorado, and my focus was on the need for healthcare marketers to build communities of share ... Read on »
What Does It Take to Become a Doctor: The Dedicated Doctor Infographic by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy “In 2006, in response to concerns of a likely future physician shortage, the AAMC recommended a 30 percent increase in U.S. medical school enrollment by 2015. This recom ... Read on »
Uninsured and Unhealthy: New Infographic by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This infographic depicts the Health Insurance Woes of African Americans and Hispanics using data from the National Health Interview Survey of the Center for Disease Contro ... Read on »
Speaking Tomorrow at the AAMC GIA Conference by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Tomorrow I will be speaking at the AAMC GIA National Professional Development Conference in Hollywood, Florida. This is my second year in a row speaking at this conferenc ... Read on »
Shut Up and Listen to the Voice of the Patient (Please) by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The voice of the patient – we don’t hear it nearly enough. That may sound strange but it is the truth. Healthcare marketers need to open themselves up to patient stories ... Read on »
Healthcare Marketing: A Day in Photos by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Last Tuesday I traveled to Massachusetts to attend a client event where we trained bloggers to work as a community and promote one another’s efforts via social media (prim ... Read on »
Infographic: The Business of Healthcare by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Lately I’ve felt like my blog has become infographic central! Infographics are coming out of the woodwork. Trust me when I tell you that most infographics that people send ... Read on »
CleanMed 2013: Creating Healing Environments (April 24-26) by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Creating safe, healing environments is one of the huge opportunities facing healthcare. That’s what the CleanMed Conference is all about. CleanMed is the premier co ... Read on »
Conference Alert: Creating a Culture of Safety – Best Practices in Implementation Science by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On May 7, 2013 in Mount Snow, Vermont, physicians, nurses, healthcare administrators, and patient safety specialists will gather for a one-day conference: “Creating a Cult ... Read on »
Time to Download Your Hospital’s Twitter Archive by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy If you’ve been Tweeting for a while now, it’s probably time to download your Twitter Archive and take a look at what you’ve been putting out into the world. I did this jus ... Read on »
Pink Glove Dance Infographic by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I’ve written previously about the Pink Glove Dance Video Competition. It has truly become a phenomenon within the healthcare industry. For me, it has hit very close to hom ... Read on »
Infographic: Benefits of Population-Based Care Models by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Okay, the people at BerylHealth are cranking out interesting infographics. They are taking complex subject matter and dramatically simplifying it. I posted one about ACOs ... Read on »
Patient Engagement Between Episodes of Care by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy When I attended Spirit of Women’s Pelvic Health Conference last week, I saw a great presentation by Tanya Abreu of Spirit of Women and her colleague from MX.com, Giulian ... Read on »
Building Community – Essential Role of Healthcare Marketers (video) by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Here’s the majority of my presentation from Spirit of Women’s annual Pelvic Health Conference in Denver, Colorado. The subject of my presentation was: The Role of the Heal ... Read on »
Infographic: The Many Hats of the Online Community Manager by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy My prediction is that many healthcare communicators will soon become managers of online communities – if you haven’t already. More of our resources within hospital marketi ... Read on »
Infographic: ACOs – Guiding the Patient Through the Healthcare Journey by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy My friends at BerylHealth recently sent me a copy of their latest ACO infographic. The graphic does a nice job of simplifying a fairly complex topic while ultimately promo ... Read on »