It's the beginning of 2015 and time for people to take a closer look at their lives and make resolutions for the coming year. It's also a good time for hospitals to take another look at their social media and digital initiatives and determine what's working and what's not.
The good news is that U.S. hospitals have embraced social media. In fact, 99.41 percent of the 3,371 U.S. hospitals have ongoing social media initiatives, according to a recent report from the Journal of Medical Internet Research. But are they using the right channels and achieving the results they want?
Here are some social media resolutions for hospital marketers for the coming year:
- Make your website work for you: Your website is your most important digital property because it's the first place people go to learn about your organization and the services you provide. However, websites are no longer the online brochures they were in the 1990s. They need to be searchable and updated on a regular basis to remove stale and outdated content. A good resource to help you know where to focus your efforts is your site's Google Analytics, which will tell you which pages get the most views and how long site visitors spend on each page.
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