Medical PR - ensure your pr and marketing comply Medical PR as a discipline has come a long way, from media releases to digital marketing. Ensure your agency is across the regulations for the industry. This is important to ensure they comply. Below are just some of the regulations to be mindful of if you or your agency are running a medical pr campaign. MTAA Code Of Practice Updated in 2019, The Code of Practice is a self-regulatory industry code that addresses several key areas of … [Read more...]
4 Ways To Improve your Digital Strategy by Understanding the Health Tech used by Aussie Women
Author: Sym Yeow for Digital Democracy A recent study conducted by The Australian Women and Digital Health Project, indicates how women are using health-related technologies to seek information more than men. The focus group provides valuable insight into the health-related information that women use and find most helpful, which can assist digital marketers in understanding how to properly communicate with this group. This goes beyond just searching for information for themselves, with … [Read more...]
Medical Marketing: Finding Reputable Content Online
Yesterday I was interviewed by ABC 702 regarding how to find authoritative healthcare content online a must know topic for medical marketing. Here are some of my tips: Review the URL and understand how information is organised on the web. For example, .org is an organisation, edu education and government is .gov. When selecting reputable information go to these websites for the more reputable disease information Beware of Bias - examine the site's purpose and look carefully at the … [Read more...]
Medical Marketing News Wrap up
Medical marketing and public health is one of our passions and over the past two weeks these were the stories we were following in the news: 1. Brazilian Journalists Delve Deep Into Digital Journalists in Brazil covering the Zika virus have been using Facebook video debates with scientist, data visualization projects and infographics to show how it spreads. Brazilian journalists have adopted a wide range of storytelling techniques and tools to cover the various aspects of this health … [Read more...]
Healthcare Content Marketing
Yesterday I had the good fortune of running a Healthcare Content Marketing Masterclass for the Remarkable organisation. The startups are all involved in the health/tech space so understanding the basics of health pr is vital. The Remarkables A little bit of background first! The organisation is Australia's first disability focused impact Accelerator. They work with inclusive startups to support them with mentors, masterclasses and user testing. The 16-week program is tailored for startups … [Read more...]
Social Media and Conference Engagement
During the last month I have been engaged by two healthcare organisations to work on their conferences to increase online audience participation and engagement. Here are a just a few of my key takeaways broken into the three key phases of the event: 1.Social Media Pre Conference Engagement Engaging with your audience needs to start far before the conference. Start following those that may be interested in attending and listen to what their key interests are. Set a hashtag and if it … [Read more...]
Social Media Impact and B2B Industries
This week A TrackMaven (US based study) tracked over 500,000 pieces of content for 316 B2B brands over the last 12 months. The results were quite surprising. When you think of which social media platform is used for B2B marketing the first platform that comes to mind is LinkedIn. LinkedIn was proven to be the social media Follower magnet having the largest median audience. Looking at social media Engagement however … [Read more...]
Healthcare Content Marketing Tips – Infographic
We had a great response to our recent Healthcare Content Marketing - Top 10 Tips article so we have turned it into an infographic - enjoy! … [Read more...]
Digital Health Report – How Aussies are adopting e-health
This month the NBN delivered the Digital Health at Home report. The key findings included: Aussies are managing health at home: Half of respondents who use telehealth (50 per cent) access it for convenience, one third (34 per cent) use it to better manage personal or family health, and one in five (21per cent) use it when they can’t get in to see a doctor; Parents are saving time and money online; Around one third (37 per cent) of pregnant women and new parent respondents harness … [Read more...]
Medical Marketing – Our Passion
Medical Marketing is a passion for Digital Democracy and we are a trusted partner to the Australian journal Pharma in Focus . These are some of the more recent article and commentary contributions. In 2015/2016 we contributed to the following articles: Is Pharma Getting Over Social Media Fears - July 2015 How Social Media Is Boosting Patient Power - Aug 3 2015 Digital Marketing Trends in 2016 - March 2016 You might also be interested in Healthcare Content Marketing - Top 10 … [Read more...]