Revealed: The most effective Healthcare Engagement Strategies in the world
2009 was a year in which healthcare engagement took some giant leaps forward. By the start of the year, platforms for digital engagement had matured to the point where it was possible to reach and engage with a wider community of health stakeholders than ever before.
Best Hospital or Clinic Award
Treating more than half a million patients a year from its clinics across the US, you might expect Mayo Clinic to know something about patient needs. What impressed us especially about Mayo Clinic’s healthcare engagement is that it has gone far beyond the natural reach of its physical clinic locations to improve healthcare for patients all around the world.
Best Patient Community Award
At the heart of the vision behind TuDiabetes is a simple goal: to provide a platform for people touched by diabetes to connect. And the social network websites at www.tudiabetes.org and Spanish version at www.estudiabetes.org, run by The Diabetes Hands Foundation, do just that – with almost 20,000 members between them spanning the globe, they form a highly active community of people joined by a common medical condition.
Best Health Issue Awareness Campaign Award
In contrast to many of the rich engagement strategies we’ve highlighted in the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards, computertan.com is a very simple, directly engaging campaign. The concept is straightforward: raise awareness of the dangers of skin cancer through overexposure to UV rays; reach those most at risk of UV overexposure by luring them to take a free trial of ‘a revolutionary new online tanning service’. Then instead, give them hard truths about skin cancer.
Best Integrated Engagement Strategy Award
One of the things we like about the ‘Get Real. Get a Prescription’ campaign is the way health stakeholders concerned about patient safety in the UK, worked in partnership to educate consumers about the risk of buying medicines online through unregistered pharmacies.
Best Engagement Through Video Award
The J&J Health Channel is used for proactive engagement – it follows others, and makes regular updates and comments. Now, it’s easy to use video for broadcasting messages – we see this all the time amongst healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations. But this channel is also open to comments, and some videos do have a lot of comments!
Changing Healthcare Award
It’s not the fact that Patientslikeme has a community of 50,000 patients that wins it this Award. It’s not the incredible way it grew a community of almost 10,000 Fibromyalgia patients in 2009 – with over 850 more joining in just the first three weeks of 2010. It’s not even the fact that 10% of US patients diagnosed with MS, and 20% of ALS patients, join Patientslikeme.
People in Healthcare Engagement Award
These were the most exciting people in healthcare engagement in 2009 – people who brought significant change to healthcare engagement. We haven’t ranked these four winners – they’re here for different reasons but they’re all making a real difference and they’re already inspiring those around them. Watch these if you want to learn how to make a real difference!
A sneak preview of insights in Healthcare Engagement Strategy 2010
We’ve designed the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards 2010 to leave a lasting legacy of knowledge for the healthcare engagement community. Our vision is that by identifying and celebrating the world’s very best healthcare engagement – those strategies, organizations and people who are really making a difference through healthcare engagement – others will learn from their [...]
Lessons from the best healthcare engagement strategies in the world
On the day that we announce the winners of the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards 2010, we will be launching an international seminar program where you can learn from the very best healthcare engagement in the world.
The seminar program kicks off in San Francisco on 26 January 2010, followed by New York on 12 February. European [...]
HES Seminar: London, 15 April 2010
At Healthcare Engagement Strategy 2010 in London, you will discover new insights about the winners of the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards 2010 and learn from the winning strategies. The Awards are the first of their kind, recognising the strategies, campaigns and people who have achieved real health outcomes from engagement.
You could win an iPod touch by using Twitter to nominate for HES Awards
It’s new, it’s very shiny, and it could be yours when you nominate for the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards.
In January 2010, we’ll be announcing the best healthcare engagement activities from 2009, in the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards. We want to know who, or what, has made the biggest difference in healthcare by engaging people.
If you’re [...]
HES Awards: Your questions answered
As nominations for the best in healthcare engagement come in thick and fast, we’re being asked various questions about the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards.
Who’s eligible?
The completely open nature of the Awards means that they’re literally open to anybody or anything that is engaging with others, to achieve health outcomes. That might sound a little vague, [...]
Momentum is building for the HES Awards
When we announced the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards a few weeks ago, we hoped that we would start a conversation about where the really effective engagement is happening in healthcare.
We’ve been discussing effective engagement in healthcare all year through our Healthcare Engagement Strategy e-journal, but now we wanted to hear more about your ideas. Where [...]
HES Awards: The International Judging Panel
The Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards judging panel is made up of selected members of Creation Interactive’s international team from around the world, with specialist experience in healthcare and digital engagement.
Alan Bowden, Australia
Alan Bowden studied in Cardiff and London, UK, and has since had an extensive international career in healthcare marketing and communications. His international work [...]
How to nominate for the HES Awards
I’ve already described how the unique nature of the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards means there are no predefined categories, no entry fee, and no long-winded nominations. In fact, we’re primarily encouraging nominations by Tweet.
At its simplest, tweet @EngagementStrat and mention #hesawards
So, how should you make an effective nomination? As with many aspects of the Awards, [...]
Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards 2010
Throughout 2009, our Healthcare Engagement Strategy e-journal has been identifying some of the most effective innovation in engagement strategies amongst healthcare companies and organisations. It’s been an exciting year in the world of healthcare engagement, with some big issues being addressed worldwide. The application of social media in healthcare has taken some significant steps forward [...]
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