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The Über Community Hospital by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Last week I traveled to Lowell, Massachusetts, by way of Boston, to attend a strategic planning meeting with the team at Lowell General Hospital (LGH). My firm is starting a n ... Read on »

A Busy Couple of Weeks for this Healthcare Marketer by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy What a busy couple of weeks. Last Friday (January 22, 2010), speaker submissions were due for the 2010 SHSMD annual conference, to be held in Chicago, September 13-15. I sent ... Read on »

How Will Tablet PCs impact Healthcare? by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy You’ve no doubt heard the news that Apple is set to release a new tablet PC this week. That got the folks at Medical Software Advice thinking about whether or not this new dev ... Read on »

The Latest Report on the Health of Americans by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This morning in the New York Times, brought to my attention by Ann Nickels, is an article outlining the report released last month by the National Center for Health Statistics ... Read on »

New Study: Journalists Turn to Social Media by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Are reporters using social media as a resource when writing stories? I’ve always maintained that most reporters would prefer to do online research as opposed to speaking with ... Read on »

The Pixie, The Fexy and The EMPixx? by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I thought I’d seen it all when I received a mailer a couple of years ago promoting the Blingy Awards. In general, awards competitions have gotten out of hand. Then today one o ... Read on »

Using Social Media for Hive Marketing by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Okay, this post falls under the category of shameless self-promotion packaged within useful content. In the past I’ve written about Hive Marketing; it’s the practice of taking ... Read on »

Despite Financial Woes, HCMC Goes Green by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A January 12, 2010 article in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune details the efforts of Hennepin County Medical Center to go green; this, despite a $25 million budget defic ... Read on »

Green Initiatives on the Rise in Healthcare by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Yesterday I came across an article in Managed Healthcare Executive Magazine titled “Green initiatives growing among healthcare facilities.” Lately I’ve been writing a lot abou ... Read on »

An Ascending Healthcare Brand in Camden, NJ by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I’m fortunate in my line of work to have the opportunity to visit medical centers across the country. For the last two days I’ve been in the Delaware Valley doing consumer res ... Read on »

East Carolina Heart Institute Wins Whole Grains Challenge by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I received a Google Alert yesterday that linked to an article about the third annual Whole Grains Challenge put on by the Whole Grains Council. The Challenge recognizes food s ... Read on »

What One MRSA Infection Costs Your Hospital by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Today in my Healthy Dose e-newsletter from Modern Healthcare, they referenced a story from Reuters about the cost of a single MRSA surgical site infection. The article highlig ... Read on »

Lexington Medical Center’s Christmas Commercial by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Each year my friends at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, SC produce a special holiday TV commercial. They handle their advertising in-house, so it’s their production ... Read on »

Update on Healthcare Marketing Blogs by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy After writing my post last week that listed healthcare marketing blogs, I posted a conversation on LinkedIn asking other marketing professionals to share their favorite health ... Read on »

Top 100 Social Media Books by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Yesterday I saw a LinkedIn group discussion started by John Hale about the top books on social media. After clicking on a couple of links, I found the original post from Jurge ... Read on »

Healthcare Marketing Award Submission Deadlines by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In October I wrote a post listing some of the upcoming healthcare marketing award competition deadlines (http://tinyurl.com/yk5yo3z). Now that we’ve reached December, we are i ... Read on »

Pink Glove Dance Lives On by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Today in Ragan’s HealthCare Marketing & Communications News, they picked up my post on the Pink Glove Dance. The momentum continues for this amazing and positive viral video. ... Read on »

Healthcare Marketing Blogs: The List by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I’ve taken a moment to compile a list of healthcare marketing blogs that you may want to follow. There are a lot of resources and smart marketers out there, so the options are ... Read on »

Pink Glove Dance Video by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A friend and colleague, Linda MacCracken of Thomson Reuters, sent me a link this weekend to the “Pink Glove Dance” video on YouTube. It’s a breast cancer awareness video feat ... Read on »

Images from 2009 CHPRMS Conference and Wallie Awards by Dan Dunlop Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Here are a few of the photos I took last week while attending the fall conference of the Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations & Marketing Society (CHPRMS) and the annual Wall ... Read on »

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