Humanizing
Brand Experience:
Healthcare edition

Overview

Now in its 8th year, the Humanizing Brand Experience: Healthcare edition report is a data-driven roadmap leveraging insights from U.S. consumers to build stronger, more human healthcare brands.

Exploring the factors shaping healthcare consumer choice and recommendation, the report delivers unprecedented data and actionable insights that leaders need to create more personalized, empathetic, and engaging experiences that achieve both brand and business results.

Methodology & impact

  • Informed by
    27,000+
    healthcare consumers
  • Rankings of
    200+
    U.S. healthcare brands

Top 10 Most Human Brands:

01

University of Iowa Health Care

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02

UAB Medicine

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1

03

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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3

04

Mass General Brigham

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05

TriHealth

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13

06

Bronson Healthcare

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7

07

Penn Medicine

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25

08

Houston Methodist

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35

09

OhioHealth

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7

10

The University of Kansas Health System

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2

Consumer mindsets


Segmentation powers personalization.

Click each segment to learn more.

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Wellness influencers

Wellness influencers

These are the trend-setters who try new health approaches before they’re mainstream. They’re enthusiastic about self-care trends and share their journey with others.

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Habitual Strugglers

Habitual Strugglers

Habitual Strugglers often face the possibility of losing their health due to chronic conditions. They want real help navigating their healthcare without judgment.

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Positive Preventatives

Positive Preventatives

This segment has an optimistic outlook on their health, crediting themselves entirely for their well-being. Despite not being as active or healthy as they portray, they excel in preventative care.

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Whole Health Managers

Whole Health Managers

Self-reliant and confident in managing their health through online resources, self-care, and holistic health management, Whole Health Managers hold off on traditional medicine.

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Trusting Traditionalists

Trusting Traditionalists

This segment grew up believing their doctor is always right and prefer traditional approaches to care. They’re loyal to their doctor and follow their recommendations.

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Unapologetically Unhealthy

Unapologetically Unhealthy

This group has left their health to chance their entire lives. They’re stubborn creatures of habit and aren’t likely to change their ways now – diet, exercise, and preventative care are not words in their vocabulary.

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Doctor Dodgers

Doctor Dodgers

These young blue-collar individuals avoid doctors due to the stressful, costly, and time-consuming healthcare process. For them, it’s a luxury that their busy lives won’t allow.


 

Connecting brand and business objectives through a

Living System of Experiences

We know the impact that experience has on choice and recommendation, and our Humanizing Brand Experience model has shown us that the holistic consumer experience isn’t the domain of any single function. It’s time to expand our world to recognize the ecosystem of experiences that drive brand and business outcomes.

Based on Monigle's Humanizing Brand Experience framework, we know experience needs to deliver on four dimensions (Sensorial, Emotional, Intellectual, Behavioral) to be impactful.

We also know there are five experiences that each drive specific outcomes that are interconnected and equally impactful:

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Hallmark Experiences

Hallmark Experiences

Drive memorability

Creating moments–no matter how big or small–that make your brand visible, distinctive, and memorable.

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Customer Experiences

Customer Experiences

Drive engagement

Creating a journey of engagement across every channel–from learning, to trial, to usage, and all over again.

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Employee Experiences

Employee Experiences

Drive motivation

Creating the tangible and intangible daily rhythms and benefits that elevate culture and spark harmony across ways-of-working.

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User Experiences

User Experiences

Drive ease

Creating digital and physical interfaces that make the journey seamless, comfortable, and accessible.

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Service Experiences

Service Experiences

Drive satisfaction

Creating human interactions that combine expertise and empathy to create loyalty and lifetime value.

Now is the time to ask yourself, how living is your system?