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Healthcare Marketing Trends for 2022 – Challenge Ahead

Healthcare, especially Hospital Branding & marketing trends are constantly changing and in the last 2 years it has been changed drastically. In 2022 there are strategies one can start implementing to stay ahead of the competitors keeping in mind current Covid & Omicron impact in mind.

According to the latest report on Times of India : India on Sunday 2nd January, 2022 reported 27,553 fresh Covid-19 cases and 284 deaths. Active caseload stands at 1,22,801 while Omicron tally is at 1,525. At 6,186 cases, the daily count in Mumbai sees a rise of 14%.

When we look back at March 2020 when the world literally shut down due to the COVID19 pandemic, what most healthcare businesses realized was the importance of marketing online and areas they needed to improve in order to keep their patients loyal and engaged with their brand, on the other hand masses at large started consuming more and more online content related to Healthcare. As majority Healthcare providers are busy providing healthcare facilities & services to cope up covid epidemic during 2020 & early 2021, they have not upgraded their marketing plans. 

Now In 2022 healthcare marketing is all about knowing is knowing and doing is doing, all of us majoring healthcare professionals are very much aware and knowledgeable about needs and expectations of patients and their relatives from healthcare providers. So one needs to adopt a more innovative, authentic communication strategy to make some noise in the mind of their target audience.

Marketing is a fast-paced, ever-changing field, and healthcare marketing trends are evolving right along with trending changes in the world. In 2022, healthcare practices need to be more innovative, authentic and authoritative in order to attract new patients and re-engage old ones.

Here are the most effective marketing trends that will be more result oriented in 2022 and beyond.

  1. Patient Centric Approach “Patient First”
  2. Patient engagement is a Top Priority at every touch points
  3. Use of technology in hospital operation processes “Innovation Wins”
  4. Creating more & more Brand Ambassadors “Internal Marketing”
  5. Say Hello to old patients “Re-engage old patients”
  6. Data Driven marketing strategy “Data is King”
  7. Authentic social media content “Say No to Copy Paste”
  8. Published genuine patient testimonials “No Pre Explained Testimonials please”
  9. Optimum utilisation of traditional media for advertisements / Publications
  10. Networking with medical fraternity 
  11.  Generate healthcare informative videos in vernacular languages
  12. Short & Sweet Content marketing “No one has much time to read lengthy content”
  13. Online & Offline engagement on ground activities focusing on preventive healthcare
  14. Remember you have multigeneration people around you “Don`t forget Gen Z & Millennials”
  15. Integrated 360 degree marketing communication approach “Don’t rely only on social media”

Trizone Healthcare Consultants believe in creating a meaningful collaboration with their healthcare clientele by providing 360 degree services in Branding, Marketing Strategy, Advertisement, Communications designing, Social Media Marketing, Digital Marketing, Web Solutions, Training & Development.

Patients are used to review, research and consider many factors before taking the final decisions over selection of Hospital/Healthcare provider.

That’s why it is so important for healthcare providers to plan their marketing strategy at an advanced level where they can retain existing patients and grab new patient footfalls to achieve their Brand & financial goals. 

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Healthcare in general and hospital branding & marketing in particular has as greatest of challenges these days in India.

How do you move forward in spite of the competitive environment ?

How do you minimize your advertisement budget, looking at high operational cost and low price line?

How do you shift from “High cost marketing” to “efficient marketing at low cost”?

How can we increase revenue to maintain quality care and service expansion?

The constant change in healthcare scenario sustainability of healthcare business is a Big challenge particularly with the challenges like increase man power cost & operational costs, decreased margins over medicines & consumable products, high competition, prize / package war, professional fee sharing etc.

It’s rarely simple or easy. Plans are often sophisticated, with many moving parts. Reaching, convincing, converting and attracting patients requires cost-effective

branding & marketing strategies and tactics that increase revenue and profitability.

Hospital Marketing in 2014

Hospital Marketing in 2014
By reading this article`s heading you all must be thinking about to explore new trend in Hospital Marketing, that`s true partially as you go reading this, you will say “Ohh that I know very well..” but believe me like you many of us have so many ideas which can be transform in to new trend in respective industry but “Knowing is Knowing & Doing is Doing”. So keep reading and keep implementing.

Shape up your Marketing Team: Traditionally all hospital management has their Marketing or Business Development team and their major focus is not marketing but the SALES. So let`s shape up your team in manner that you can cover all aspects of hospital marketing, according to me Marketing Department should be divided in to 6 part:
1. Internal Marketing Team
2. Branding Team
3. Corporate Sales Team
4. Referral Sales Team
5. Event Team
6. PR Team
Effective coordination and combination of above team can lead successful Hospital Marketing & Business Growth.

Market Research: Traditionally, all hospital marketers follow existing technique prevailing in the market, e.g. One hospital is doing advertisement campaign on “Knee Replacement Surgery using Computer Navigation” or some latest equipment for error free surgery with clean atmosphere & excellent services, with the photo of some old age couple back to their normal life with hassle free walking. Another hospital will similar kind of advertisement with lowest package rate. Some other hospital will do the same kind of advertisement campaign with showing old age person playing football after Knee Replacement Surgery. According to me hospital should have develop Market Research Team who constantly measures patient`s trend, need, demand, willingness, behavior, expectation etc. and the same time explore and update new trend in medical world, by evaluating said data marketer can always invent new ideas to promote their particular services in very effective way.

Know your Existing Customer first: all marketer wants more and more footfalls in their hospital and for that they do all kind of efforts and spend huge money, but marketers just forget their existing customers who are already there at your place for availing some or other kind of service of your.

According to me in today`s challenging economy marketer has to utilized their existing customer to market their services and facilities by using various methods like cross selling, privilege card, loyalty card, gift car, referral scheme, hospital merchandisers etc. Marketer should also know how to use existing data base [contact number, email ids, home & office address etc.] of their existing customers.

Get Connected, Get Social & Be active on Social Media: Most healthcare companies utilize Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Blog, Instagram, Google+ and LinkedIn for their brand visibility but marketers needs to cultivate and invent their own strategy to utilize this platform in maximum benefit to community and organization.

According to me Hospital marketer has to assign social media engagement work to internal marketing team for better and effective strategy. Before designing any social media strategy marketer need to gather various research data from marketing research department to understand their target segment`s like, dislike, trend, need, expectation, behaviors etc.

There are so many other things to write…

Will update in next blog, meanwhile Happy Learning and keep commenting and suggesting on my blog..

Your comment and suggestions can transform, reform Healthcare Marketing this year!!