Episodios

  • TP466 – Second Helpings: Our Best Episodes of 2025 (Part 2)
    Dec 17 2025
    We are back with the second half of our annual Holiday Sampler, featuring the remaining three episodes that round out Touch Point’s most downloaded shows of 2025. These are the conversations listeners kept coming back to. The ones that sparked follow-up questions, internal debates, and hallway conversations at conferences. Together, they reflect the themes that defined healthcare marketing and digital strategy this year, including privacy-first advertising, AI-driven content strategy, and a rethinking of reputation management beyond simple star ratings. In this episode, Reed Smith and Chris Boyer revisit three standout conversations that explore where digital transformation is actually working inside health systems, how AI is reshaping consumer expectations, and why trust and access remain the real competitive differentiators. As a reminder, the annual Touch Point listener survey is still open through December 19. This is your opportunity to vote for Best Guest and Best Interview of the Year. The race is close, and every vote matters. Consider this the second half of the sampler platter. Different flavors, big ideas, and still plenty of great choices on the table. Mentions From the Show: Episode 420 - The 2025 State of Digital Advertising for Healthcare TP423 – Healthcare Content in 2025: AI, Composability, and the Content Stack TP424 – Rethinking Reputation Management (Moving Beyond Google Reviews) 2025 Annual TouchPoint Listener Survey Reed Smith on LinkedIn Chris Boyer on LinkedIn Chris Boyer website Chris Boyer on BlueSky Reed Smith on BlueSky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • TP465 – Holiday Sampler: Our Best Episodes (Part 1)
    Dec 10 2025
    Health care did not have a quiet year. AI, experience, platforms, and “vibe” all took turns in the spotlight. In this first half of our Holiday Sampler, hosts Chris Boyer and Reed Smith revisit four of the most downloaded Touch Point episodes of 2025. These clips capture the themes that kept listeners coming back. This episode features standout moments from: Episode 421: The Evolution of Patient Experience We look at how patient experience grew up. From the days of satisfaction surveys and HCAHPS to a broader, human centered view that includes families, communities, and digital expectations. This clip returns to the point where COVID, consumer behavior, and online access collided and forced health systems to rethink what experience really means. Episode 428: Breaking the Healthcare Content Mold AI quietly moved from pilot projects to everyday content work. In this segment, we revisit how health systems are using AI to draft education materials, website copy, social content, and SEO at scale, while staying compliant and avoiding PHI. The clip focuses on the human plus AI dynamic and why better prompts and guardrails lead to better outputs. Episode 431: AI, Are You Killing Our Vibe Vibe marketing became one of the buzz phrases of the year. Here we unpack what people actually mean when they talk about “vibe,” how it influences discovery and trust, and where AI fits in as a tool to shape and scale emotional connection. This highlight walks through concrete examples of how teams brought vibe into campaigns without losing substance. Episode 435: The Website Is Now a Platform In this conversation, we challenged the idea of the hospital website as a static brochure. The clip you will hear looks at what happens when you treat the site as a true platform for access, engagement, and growth. We talk about scheduling flows, self service tools, data capture, and the privacy and trust questions that come with a more intelligent experience. It is a snapshot of how digital front doors are becoming digital operating systems. Taken together, these four episodes show how quickly the ground is shifting under healthcare marketers and digital leaders. Experience is broader. Content is more automated. Brand is more emotional. The website is more operational. The leaders who follow these threads are already working differently heading into 2026. Our annual listener survey is open through December 19. It is your chance to vote for the best guest and best interview of the year and to tell us what you want more of in the year ahead. We will share the results and celebrate the winners in our final episode of 2025. Mentions From the Show: 2025 Annual TouchPoint Listener Survey Reed Smith on LinkedIn Chris Boyer on LinkedIn Chris Boyer website Chris Boyer on BlueSky Reed Smith on BlueSky Final note Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • TP464 – The AI Loop Problem (Where Humans Still Matter Most)
    Dec 3 2025
    In this episode, hosts Chris Boyer and Reed Smith explore how health systems can make smarter decisions about Human In The Loop and Human Out Of The Loop models, and why these choices will define trust, safety, and experience in the coming years. What HITL and HOOTL actually mean How healthcare is applying these frameworks Why governance is the missing layer Where humans must remain as the final authority Chris then sits down with Carrie Liken, CEO and founder of Sotto Strategies and a leading voice in healthcare search and AI driven consumer behavior. She offers a grounded perspective on how agentic AI, new browsing models, and health system data strategy are reshaping digital engagement. Mentions From the Show: Carrie Liken on LinkedIn Carrie Liken on SubStack Reed Smith on LinkedIn Chris Boyer on LinkedIn Chris Boyer website Chris Boyer on BlueSky Reed Smith on BlueSky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • TP463: The Three Course Leftovers Episode
    Nov 26 2025
    It would not be Thanksgiving without a little tradition. Each year we pull together the three Touch Point interviews that listeners came back to again and again. Think of it as a sampler platter for the long weekend. No turkey, just the conversations that defined 2025 for healthcare marketers. This year’s top downloads brought a mix of AI momentum, creative reinvention, and a fresh look at online reputation. In this episode, Chris and Reed revisit highlights from: TP428 – Dianne Hammons, WG Content on how custom LLMs and structured content workflows pushed healthcare teams into a new era of speed, consistency, and brand clarity. TP431 – Matt Cyr, Loop Agency discussing why AI became the creative sidekick of choice for lean teams. Matt explains how his work with Roper St. Francis Healthcare showed that creativity gets better when AI takes the busywork off the table. TP424 – Dean Browell - how provides a reality check on Google Reviews. Dean explains why their influence is fading and what signals matter more as patients change how they evaluate care. These three episodes tell the story of a year when everything felt in motion. Content evolved. Creative teams retooled. Reputation strategy shifted under our feet. And marketers adapted at a pace that would have seemed impossible a few years ago. A perfect listen for your drive, your kitchen time, or your post dessert recovery. Thanks for spending another year with Touch Point. Mentions from the Show: Dianne Hammons on LinkedIn Matt Cyr on LinkedIn https://touchpoint.health/podcast/tp428-breaking-the-healthcare-content-mold-rethinking-risk-embracing-prompt-power/ Reed Smith on LinkedIn Chris Boyer on LinkedIn Chris Boyer website Chris Boyer on BlueSky Reed Smith on BlueSky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • TP462 – Six Digital Habits Healthcare Must Break
    Nov 19 2025
    Healthcare digital strategy is changing faster than most systems can keep up with. Privacy restrictions are tightening, AI is rewriting search, patients are shifting expectations, and many of the digital tactics health systems still rely on are quietly becoming obsolete. In this episode, hosts Chris Boyer and Reed Smith count down six digital habits the industry needs to retire. They explore why consumer behavior, AI-driven browsing, telehealth recalibration, and the rise of machine-readable content have fundamentally changed what “good digital” looks like in 2025. From outdated SEO assumptions to bloated maps and embeds to the myth of the “digital front door,” this episode challenges legacy thinking and separates modern strategy from comfortable habits. If your organization is still operating on models built for 2015, this countdown will help reset your digital roadmap for the next decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    40 m
  • TP461 - Recorded Live From the 2025 HCIC Conference in Las Vegas, NV
    Nov 12 2025
    Recorded on-site at the 2025 HealthCare Internet Conference (HCIC) in Las Vegas, host Chris Boyer sat down with consulting experts Cynthia Newton, Therese Lockemy, and Christine Albert from Solutions Central to discuss the biggest trends shaping healthcare marketing and digital strategy today. Together, they explore how health systems are navigating rapid change—balancing technology innovation with real-world challenges of collaboration, governance, and growth. The conversation dives into: Why outside perspectives help organizations see beyond internal blind spots How cross-department collaboration unlocks smarter, faster decision-making The role of technology and partnerships in solving core business challenges Emerging conference themes and what they signal for healthcare marketing in 2025 Plus, the episode wraps up with a special Touch Point Hot Takes segment, where each guest shares their boldest predictions for the future of healthcare digital strategy. Mentions from the Show: Cynthia Newton on LinkedIn Therese Lockemy on LinkedIn Christine Albert on LinkedIn SolutionsCentral on LinkedIn Reed Smith on LinkedIn Chris Boyer on LinkedIn Chris Boyer website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    39 m
  • TP460 - When Digital Speaks for the Patient
    Nov 5 2025
    AI is no longer just a search companion; it’s becoming a digital negotiator. In this episode, hosts Chris Boyer and Reed Smith explore how agentic AI and new AI-driven browsers like Atlas and Comet are transforming the healthcare consumer experience.The discussion examines how these emerging tools are rewriting the rules of visibility, consent, and control - shifting healthcare from a web built for people to a web built for machines. As AI learns to summarize, recommend, and even schedule care, health systems must rethink what it means to be findable, trustworthy, and human in a machine-readable world.Key themes include: The rise of AI-native browsers and the collapse of traditional web traffic models Why “find a doctor” tools may soon give way to AI-to-AI scheduling The privacy and consent challenges of agentic AI scraping data and acting independently How healthcare organizations can redesign for trust, transparency, and machine comprehension What it means for brand voice and patient empathy when AI becomes the front door Mentions from the Show: Carrie Liken: The Google Checkmate: Has Atlas Sparked the End of the Internet as We Know It? John Munsell: How AI Browsers Harvest Information Without Your Consent Accenture: Technology Vision 2024: Human by design Deloite:. AI in health care: Balancing innovation, trust, and new regs Reed Smith on LinkedIn Chris Boyer on LinkedIn Chris Boyer website Chris Boyer on BlueSky Reed Smith on BlueSky Sources discussed include recent work by Carrie Liken and John Munsell, alongside insights from Accenture, Deloitte, and federal agencies guiding AI ethics and data use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    39 m
  • TP459 – Marketing Maturity and the Future of Healthcare Growth
    Oct 29 2025
    In this episode, hosts Chris Boyer and Reed Smith explore what it takes to build a future-ready marketing organization that connects intelligence to impact. They break down why the next phase is about velocity—turning insight into action—rather than visibility alone, and how maturity depends on integration, governance, and access to data. Then, Priyama Barua of Merge joins the conversation to discuss findings from her latest marketing maturity research. She shares how high-performing health systems operationalize insights, the gaps holding teams back, and what the next three to five years could look like as marketing evolves from a campaign function to a growth ecosystem. Key themes: Why speed of learning and action will define the next era of digital marketing How unified data, AI, and governance reshape marketing’s role in growth The CMO as ecosystem integrator across brand, access, and operations Practical steps to move from campaign cycles to continuous learning Mentions from the Show: Marketing in healthcare: Improving the consumer experience Accenture Technology Vision 2024: “Human by Design” Technologies Will Reinvent Industries and Redefine Leaders by Supercharging Productivity and Creativity PriyamaBarua.com Priyama Barua on LinkedIn Merge Marketing Maturity Study: Results and Analysis Reed Smith on LinkedIn Chris Boyer on LinkedIn Chris Boyer website Chris Boyer on BlueSky Reed Smith on BlueSky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    59 m