Generating Patient Leads

RWJBarnabas Health grew patient leads 70% — the most leads ever in a year — by deploying multichannel programmatic campaigns.

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    Challenge

    Consumers were shying away from reaching out to healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic unless they had an urgent medical concern. RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH) online form submissions and calls were on the decline. The goal was to generate high-value patient leads for RWJBH medical group practices areas — from bariatrics, cancer and cardiology to mammography, maternity and orthopedics – in hopes these leads would turn into patient cases and increase the number of patients receiving treatment at the hospital.

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    Strategy

    RWJBH and Goodway Group applied best practices from our previous campaigns and medical advertising expertise to search engine marketing (SEM), display and social programmatic campaigns to target new patients and caregivers across channels. Patients interested in each hospital specialty would complete a lead form on a customized service line landing page or use a click-to-call link in our SEM advertising to reach out to the hospital’s call center for more information or to set up an appointment.

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    Results

    Leveraging a mix of programmatic SEM, display and social advertising tactics, RWJBH and Goodway automated ad buying and used machine learning to surpass expectations and achieve a 70% increase in patient leads in 2021, with only a 26% budget increase — the most patient leads RWJBH has ever received in a year! Each lead we generated represented another patient or caregiver who started the patient intake process and considered a new treatment from one of RWJBH’s hospital specialties.

  • A successful media partnership requires trust, innovation and great results. RWJBH has collaborated with Goodway Group since 2013 and has launched countless programmatic advertising initiatives to promote our medical group practice areas, referring patients to bariatrics, cancer, cardiology, mammography, maternity and orthopedic services across 12 individual hospital locations.

    Andrew Quinn
    Andrew QuinnDigital Marketing Director, RWJBarnabas Health

    Results

    Despite consumers’ hesitancy to reach out to healthcare providers during COVID, Goodway Group’s audience targeting strategy and multichannel programmatic advertising campaigns drove a 70% increase in patient leads in 2021, the most patient leads ever in a year for RWJBH.

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    2021

    Drove the most patient leads ever for RWJBH

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    70%

    increase in patient leads from 2020, with only a 26% budget increase

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    YoY

    specialty increase (2020 to 2021): 72% Bariatrics, 119% Cancer, 58% Cardiology, 37% Mammography, 29% Maternity and 178% Orthopedics

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