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		<title>Medical Mystery Shopping</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing your practice through the eyes of your patients will help you build better customer loyalty programs and will dramatically increase referral rates...
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		<title>Social Media Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protect the reputation of your physicians and brand while maintaining strong relationships with your patients.]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ensure every dollar spent produces measurable results.]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a differentiating factor that will make your practice stand out.]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Poll: What is your Biggest Gripe about the Doctor’s Office?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We asked Facebook users what frustrated them most about visiting the doctor. Waiting was the chief complaint, with 39% of respondents, followed by the doctor’s attitude and rude office staff. For more on those top three responses and advice to combat them in your office, click here. Listed below are some of the other gripes that came up in our poll. “The butcher paper on the exam tables. It&#8217;s 2010, that&#8217;s really still the best option?” “That everything is WHITE. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Mystery Shopping Myths</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at (e)Merge, we measure patient perception of our client’s practices by sending in medical mystery shoppers. They evaluate and document the patient experience both over the phone and in the office. Though medical mystery shopping is a thriving industry, there are still misconceptions surrounding it. Here, we debunk the three top myths: Myth #1: Mystery shopping projects will take a lot of time and attention away from real patients. Truth: When you are working with a company that specialized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Healthcare Social Media a Bad Idea?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, some nurses at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, California were fired for posting pictures of a dying stab victim that came into their ER on their Facebook pages. Now, many are questioning whether healthcare’s dip into social media sets a good example. Our take? Just because health systems are using social media to connect with patients and better market themselves, it doesn’t give workers the right to blur the lines between their professional lives and their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Women Want</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research shows health sites are visited far more often by women than by men. Women are also outpacing men on amount of visits to social media sites, not to mention time spent while on those sites. This is an important finding for healthcare marketing, as more and more practices integrate social media as part of their marketing strategy. Both of these new statistics further highlight the need to cater to the modern woman, and specifically, the modern mom. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding Social Media Marketing Pitfalls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations! Your medical practice or health system has joined the social media movement and you are now connecting with current and potential patients online. Though you may be off to a good start, this is not the time to take your following for granted. Many of your competitors are also interested in gaining your base. So, let’s talk about the pitfalls that could send your followers elsewhere and how to avoid them: 1) Becoming ‘noise’. Are your updates so uninteresting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Word on Word-of-Mouth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As marketing specialists, we are constantly asked about strategy. Many wonder how effective word-of-mouth marketing really is and how much of their marketing plan should rely on it. The fact is, normal or satisfied practices cannot rely on word-of-mouth marketing at all because they are not creating memorable experiences for their patients. These practices have to spend a lot more money on advertising because their patients aren’t inspired to tell others about their healthcare. But practices creating buzz and memorable [...]]]></description>
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