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Re: What's THE adoption trigger for the healthcare audience?
mgroffburlingDec 8, 2014 10:33 AM (in response to babate)
Hi Bianca - That's a really good question. I've worked in the healthcare industry cultivating large and small HCP communities - from the large medical association community to the private, disease state focused community. Not only are these HCP members time impoverished, but being able to connect on the go via mobile becomes even more critical, as many are moving from one location / institution to the other within their practice. The adoption trigger is a tough one. However, what I have found is that if you create the mission / objective of the community around "patient focus" or you actually integrate the community within their workflow - this generally helps with adoption and engagement.
For example - I managed a community of Oncologists. We had a group of community leaders helping drive and develop topics, but we struggled with engagement. The members didn't really want to talk about a paper / abstract unless it was a "late - breaking development" or something controversial. We started having our community leaders post issues they were having with their patients (no names included, etc). These were issues our community leaders where dealing with now - they needed help from their community peers on how to take action or get recommendations. This is when we started seeing adoption and engagement really increase. The members wanted to actively help their peer members - this goes hand in hand with the mission of an HCP being "patient focused".
Again - great question and I would love to hear what others are doing to turn the dial on adoption with this unique audience!
Thanks -Michelle
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Re: What's THE adoption trigger for the healthcare audience?
babate Jan 5, 2015 5:00 PM (in response to mgroffburling)Michelle, I like where you're going with this. Could you describe a little but more about how you "embedded it in the workflow" - did you do this by role, and did you have to come up with a content strategy effort to make sure the content was relevant and up-todate?
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