Making DNA Analysis the Clinical SOP

Amy Hansen  |  August 19, 2019

When my BRCA test came back negative, that wasn’t the only reason I felt lucky. I felt lucky that I knew my family history for breast cancer. Without that awareness, the idea of genetic testing wouldn’t have occurred to me or my doctor. I felt lucky that the BRCA test was financially accessible. It wasn’t always. I had chosen to forgo the test in the past because it was cost-prohibitive and not covered by my insurance; ...

The New Genetic Testing Frontier

Gabriel Cangiano  |  May 28, 2019

Many years ago, a smart man from my first agency where I began a significant portion of my healthcare marketing career talked about the frontier of personalized medicine. The idea of personalized medicines giving targeted therapies to “cure” patients was a main driver of my desire to build my entire career in healthcare marketing. While I knew full well that I started a pathway of my career working with big pharma, where friends at parties would challenge how I could work for corporate entities with so many ethical challenges, I still knew that my pursuits in the industry would always think of the patients’ needs, first and foremost. I knew that everything I wanted to recommend to my clients would be prioritized through the lens of positive patient outcomes. I dove in headfirst, wide-eyed about making a difference and enthusiastic about working in innovative therapies that would be on the …

Transforming Digital: Domino’s Pizza?

Taylor Watson  |  May 24, 2019

Last Friday, I was able to crash Modern Healthcare’s Healthcare Transformation Summit here in Austin. Our Chief Digital Officer Colin Foster sat on a panel with some outstanding industry peers to discuss healthcare’s digital transformation. The conversation hosted by David Chou was extremely interesting and insightful, but it’s the opening …

What Escher Taught Me About Analytics

Amy Hansen  |  May 22, 2019

As an agency, HCB Health has been thinking — and writing — about analytics a lot lately. Even though it’s been a core competency at our agency for several years now, I admit I’ve struggled to fully wrap my arms and head around what it means and how to effectively use it. It has always felt Escher-like in its complexity and infinite possibilities. Where do you start? Where are you going? And how do you know when you’ve arrived? I never imagined that …

What Healthcare’s Changing Media Landscape and Battle for Revenue Mean to You

Dave Russell  |  May 16, 2019

At HCB Health, we take great pride in being the listening agency. Listening to our clients, consumers, and the broader marketplace helps us get perspective about where things are headed in our industry. And from what I’m seeing and hearing, there is a storm brewing in healthcare (HC) publishing. The storm is disruption, and it’s the same storm that’s been pounding consumer media for many years. The similarities I see are shocking. The outcomes will be very similar if the HC publishers do not make the necessary adjustments to weather the storm. Shift to digital spending only is increasing in speed and …

Data and Analytics: Changing HCP Media

Dave Russell  |  May 13, 2019

We’ve heard a lot about disruption in the media world. All the disruption is the result of a proliferation of digital media tactics, big data and platforms. This disruption has mostly happened in the consumer media world, but over the last couple years, we’ve started to see major changes happening in the world of HCP media. Agencies and clients are finally starting to realize the benefit of using big data and digital platforms to achieve HCP marketing in a much more efficient and effective way. The disruption we are seeing is coming through two big changes: Utilizing targeting data to hyper-target to potential audiences Using campaign analytics to optimize campaigns for better outcomes Data Targeting: How has data targeting changed the game? Data targeting is allowing us to target our audience in completely new and effective ways. We can …

Challenging Goliath: Media, an Interview With Dave Russell

Dave Russell  |  May 6, 2019

Recently, Francesco Lucarelli teamed up with eyeforpharma to write about being an underdog in our industry. The piece sparked conversation amongst the agency regarding how underdogs can fight goliaths in specific areas like digital, media and creative. We sat down with VP Media Strategy Dave Russell to talk through the age-old David vs. Goliath tale and how it relates to paid media within the medical advertising space.   What …

Build Your Bottom Line through Effective Listening, Tapping Emotion, & Strong Engagement

Kim Carpenter  |  April 30, 2019

This article was originally published by DTC Perspectives on April 30th, 2019. http://www.dtcperspectives.com/build-bottom-line-effective-listening-tapping-emotion-strong-engagement/ Health and wellness, pharmaceutical, and medical-device providers must navigate an ever-evolving and consistently complicated healthcare landscape. Agencies (and corporate marketers) serve a key role in helping their clients problem solve, understand their challenges, and identify critical success factors. How is this best accomplished? Through the power of thorough, intuitive and intentional listening, and strong engagement – with both the client and consumer. It’s critical to tap into that certain something that bridges the gap between what agencies (and corporate marketers) think they know and what a client (or brand manager) needs to understand. The reverse is equally true. What does the client (or brand manager) and consumer know and what do we as agencies need to understand? It can only be arrived at through intentional, deep listening. And from …

Staff Takes: How Will we Look at Analytics Differently in the Next Year?

HCB  |  April 29, 2019

We asked a handful of people within the agency to think about the constantly changing world of analytics. From digital to creative and everywhere in between, analytical data touches nearly every sector of our business. We wanted to hear what our HCBers had to say about the future of the analytics space. See what some of our staff had to say about the subject below. How will we look at analytics differently in the next year? I think the lens through which we look at analytics is ever changing. Between this and the amount of data available, it can be difficult for companies to choose and stick with their KPIs, which then defeats the purpose of …

Challenging Goliath: Digital, an Interview With Colin Foster

Colin Foster  |  April 26, 2019

Recently, Francesco Lucarelli teamed up with eyeforpharma to write about being an underdog in our industry. The piece sparked conversation amongst the agency regarding how underdogs can fight goliaths in specific areas like digital, media and creative. We sat down with Chief Digital Officer Colin Foster to talk through the age-old David vs. Goliath tale and how it relates …

Staff Takes: Analytics Open the Door to…

HCB  |  April 18, 2019

We asked a handful of people within the agency to think about analytics as it related to their specific job function. Because we live in a world of readily available data, analytics and measurement touch nearly every sector of our business. From digital to creative and everywhere in between, analytics play a significant role in the work we produce as an agency. See what some of our staff had to say about the subject below.   ANALYTICS OPEN THE DOOR TO…   Analytics open the door to… …a deeper understanding of your return on advertising investment. Jessica Dube, Senior Media Planner/Buyer   Analytics open the door to… …insights. Heather Anderson, Group Account Supervisor   Analytics open the door to… …uncover new ways to drive profit and promote customer-centricity.  Kim Carpenter, Associate Partner & …

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