Patients engage with physicians a few times a year and payers only when they need to. However, patients engage with their employer almost every single day.
Patient engagement along the patient journey is dependent upon programs offered by employers. Even providers and physicians rely on employers for education and outreach.
Here are 18 Tweetable Takeaways, identified at the 15th Annual Employer Health Care Conference, for employers to consider as they embark on employee wellness and healthcare initiatives.
Social, when integrated with other channels, can also own brand share.
The Thomas Collective enhanced their MCM tactics through the use of social media.
After conducting brand awareness research, Thomas recognized there was opportunity for increased awareness. They developed a social media character and used her in a social media contest.
Through focused and consistent social media communication, The Thomas Collective:
increased its Facebook fan base by 666%,
its liked posts by 4,484%,
and shared posts by 15,400%.
This campaign now extends beyond social media pages and has made its way into all digital programming such as advertising, public relations, event execution, sampling, corporate communication, media buying and promotions.
The brand has attributed social media, along with advertising, to the brand’s awareness growth from 39-55%, outpacing its entire competitive set by well over 10%.
We’ve spoken about content for HCPs and patients, but it’s also important to address the needs of payers.
There’s a growing recognition amongst pharmaceutical companies that they need to focus as much effort communicating to payers as they do to patients and healthcare providers. Pharma companies must effectively communicate to the payers.
“Payers want straightforward information and they want pharma to engage payers in a way that addresses their value and competencies, and want discussions that “are not mere negotiations around access and price, but...relationships” that help payers address their challenges.” Payers put a premium on real-world results and are more interested in comparative data sets than they are in clinical trial data. So while pharma communicates about programs that increase drug adherence and patient engagement, that information is not as persuasive as comparative data sets and comprehensive trials.
Genentech is a biotech company making advances in marketing to payers. They’ve created a series of tools that speak directly to the payer about comparative effectiveness and clinical trials and contain budget impact models, health outcomes data, and cost effectiveness assessments.
And while a site like Genetech’s Forum may be a year out, segmenting and personalizing communications to payers is not a stretch.
What data to these companies analyze when reviewing “Digital Body Language”?
Implicit and Explicit
Is there an example of a company doing all of these right?
For those companies looking to develop a more comprehensive multichannel marketing strategy, where do you suggest they start?
Audit channels
Audit content
Identify gaps
Prioritize
Start small
Talk with the audience, don’t limit yourself to the 4 walls of the business