Healthcare Rap

Zain and Jared continue on the theme of digital in rural healthcare by recapping the Sanford Health Summit On the Future of Rural Health. They discuss how digital strategy can lead to better servicing patients in areas that have less access to medical expertise and facilities, then they dive into how key leaders can come together to address existential challenges from workforce shortages to revenu...

UnitedHealthcare and its Optum subsidiary offer tools to help consumers stay healthier, including a $35/month insulin service and a price matching tool for prescription medications. While they employ tens of thousands of physicians, they don't always market facilities like a hospital or health system might tend to do. Join veteran hosts Jared Johnson and Peter Balistrieri as they share lessons we...

Jared Antczak, Sanford Health’s Chief Digital Officer, discusses how digital tools are impacting rural health. When you’re the largest rural health system in the country and your service area covers 250,000 square miles, you can’t view digital as just another lane on the highway. Regardless of their geographic footprint, Sanford Health is still attempting to address the same challenge of meeting p...

Walgreens and its subsidiary Village Medical market value-based care that includes home and retail experiences. They attempt to do this while attempting to convey that high-quality care can come from anywhere.  Join veteran hosts Jared Johnson and Peter Balistrieri as they share lessons we can all learn from the way that drug stores market their healthcare services. (Marketing With Soul #3 | Rap B...

Rich Phillips, Managing Director at Huron, discusses the tech stack that powers the consumer experience. Driving data-enabled growth and creating a better consumer experience in healthcare starts by understanding the technologies and data that are needed to make it happen.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about CVS’s latest Health Trends Report. What can the rest of the industry learn from re...

Amazon and One Medical market themselves in ways that reflect consumers’ needs. Their brand promise centers on convenience and other experience-based factors. Join veteran hosts Jared Johnson and Peter Balistrieri as they challenge primary care marketing to convey a new level of consumer awareness, especially as they hand off to retailers. (Marketing With Soul #2 | Rap Bonus Series #292) See omnys...

As a Principal and Board Member at ChenMed, Dr. Gordon Chen has a unique perspective on the state of value-based care, the changes that are needed to create more transformative care, and the benefits to society as we make progress along those lines.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Instacart Health expanding its partnerships with provider organizations. Who will take responsibility to p...

Who’s paying attention to how disruptors are marketing themselves? CVS Health says they’re delivering care like no one else can, and Oak Street claims that they have doctors who actually listen. Join veteran hosts Jared Johnson and Peter Balistrieri as they discuss how current healthcare marketing does not reflect the current realities of choices for consumers, and what to do about it. (Marketing...

Brad Smith, Chairman and CEO of Main Street Health, shares the benefits of more coordinated value-based care models for rural America. Brad shares his vision for improving care in rural areas, the need to innovate more for complex Medicaid populations, and the role that health navigators can play in this critical transformation.  He recently spoke on this topic at the inaugural Healthcare Sessions...

In this classic interview from 2020, you’ll learn why digital marketing and social media expert Jess Columbo says that too much focus on your elevator speech can actually paint you into a corner and lock you out from new opportunities. You'll hear how she is mindful of the pressures that young professionals put on themselves to power their way up the ladder quickly. And she’ll point out that while...

Marcos Domiciano shares what CLEAR is doing in healthcare. CLEAR isn’t just at airports; they’re bringing their vision for removing friction to healthcare experiences. Marcos shares how they can empower consumer centricity and what it can mean for consumers when identity isn’t such a mystery anymore.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Best Buy offering its first prescription-based medical...

If you’re one of the world’s biggest brands and want to do cool, amazing things with your content strategy, content marketing, and customer experience, you call Robert Rose. What you may not know about him is what his former life as a musician, his English lit degree, and his quest to find the right platform all have to do with him developing career resilience.  In this classic interview from 2020...

We continue our series with retail health leaders by welcoming Dr. Creagh Milford, Senior Vice President of Retail Health at CVS Health. So many people talk about retail health, and we’re going to the source as Dr. Milford shares the role of retail health clinics in today’s landscape, how they reduce fragmentation of care, and where they are collaborating with traditional providers to achieve bett...

Joe launched what became Content Marketing Institute on the very day in April 2007 that New Century Financial declared bankruptcy – the first domino that fell leading up to the Great Recession.  In this classic interview from 2020, you’ll learn how Joe moved forward early on, after he lost one of his top clients and his credit cards were maxed out. You’ll learn his mindset as he realized that ther...

Guest host Mitch Holdwick returns to profile Cityblock Health and evaluate their disruptive potential as a value-based provider for historically marginalized populations. Even with layoffs earlier this year, the company remains in a strong position to play a part in provide care for those who are historically left behind.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Costco’s new $29 primary care vi...

John Marzano's career trajectory has been marked by taking opportunities that may not have been 100% aligned with where he thought he wanted to go at the time. But in retrospect, each one of them put him in the driver's seat to where he needed to be.  In this candid look back at his career, John shares how marketing leadership has evolved and how you gain value by fixing things and solving problem...

Paul Fahey returns to share highlights from Smith & Jones’ 2024 Healthcare Marketing Trends Report. When he says it’s the Year of Disruption, what does he mean, and what should we be paying attention to? All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Best Buy Health expanding its home health partnerships. Will health at home pay a bigger part in consumer-first strategies as some early adopters sha...

Kristin Baird began her consulting to help organizations improve their customer service, but she learned that if organizations didn't have the right leadership and culture in place, there were no amount of tactics that were going to help them.  In this candid look back at the origins of her consulting business, Kristin shares how she got the nickname The Inadvertent Business Coach and evolved her...

James Gardner, our regular contributor, sits down with Jared to connect the dots between timely news stories including Roz Brewer’s departure at Walgreens, Blue Shield of California's PBM power play, unionizing doctors, and more.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Walmart’s reported interest in acquiring ChenMed. As new details emerge about this potentially game-changing acquisition, are...

The origin stories of Greystone. Net and the Health Care Internet Conference reveal some uncommon lessons that Kathy Divis and her colleagues learned along the way. Kathy shares some of those lessons and reinforces the power of community to help healthcare marketers address the industry's quickly changing trends and technologies.  This series is produced by Shift Forward Health , the consumer advi...

Derek Streat, CEO and Co-Founder of DexCare, shares how improving access means balancing the needs of three different audiences. He digs into the importance of understanding the limitations of Consumerism and not over-indexing on it at the detriment of others in the ecosystem.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about new senior leaders at One Medical, Walgreens, and Aetna. When leadership chang...

Alan Shoebridge makes the case for more marketers to raise their voices and develop their personal brands. Alan is one of the best examples of sharing a perspective on trends and using that perspective as a means of networking, leadership, and professional development.  This series is produced by Shift Forward Health , the consumer advisory firm and community that's writing the playbook for consum...

Could healthcare really have its own version of customer reward programs? Peter Yesawich thinks so, and he joins the show to talk about how providers may implement the same techniques as hospitality organizations to enhance the patient experience. Peter and his coauthor Stowe Shoemaker’s new book Hospitable Healthcare examines 22 service touchpoints that are common to both hospitality and healthca...

Ed Marx joins Jared for a candid look back at his career, including how he knew the time was right to make his latest move as CEO of Marx Advisory — for the second time.  Ed is a role model for every healthcare leader who wants to make an impact.   This series is produced by Shift Forward Health , the consumer advisory firm and community that's writing the playbook for consumer-first health. (Kine...

Dr. Justin Norden, adjunct professor at Stanford Medicine and a partner at GSR Ventures, recently put out the first-ever collaborate state of healthcare generative AI report, and he helps us understand what’s possible from this emerging tech class to help consumers in their health journeys.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Amazon’s new insulin coupons. What does this latest battle in th...