Aria Marketing, a leading healthcare public relations and marketing communications agency, recognized 2019 as a pivotal year in which the company increased revenue by nearly 20% and added three leading healthcare technology companies to its client roster. In conjunction with these achievements, Aria also announced an employee retention rate of 93%.

Aria Marketing, a leading healthcare public relations and marketing communications agency, today announced that for the 20^th consecutive year, it will be representing over a dozen healthcare technology and services companies at the Healthcare Information and Management System Society’s (HIMSS) Annual Conference, taking place February 11-15 in Orlando.

At Aria, we provide each of our clients with a dedicated PR team that typically consists of a Vice President, a Senior Account Executive, an Account Executive (AE) and sometimes an Account Coordinator (AC). Given this set team structure, AEs and ACs typically do not have many opportunities to collaborate directly with each other on client work.

The Aria team took a break (mostly) from the world of health IT PR for a full two weeks this holiday season. After a year of hard work, a crazy pandemic, and a transition to WFH, we took some well-deserved time to relax. Read about the team’s much needed R&R over the holidays:

Summer is always a good opportunity to dig into an interesting book, and with the COVID-19 pandemic still keeping people at home, the Aria Marketing team has had more spare time to read than ever before. As a healthcare PR agency, we read about healthcare news and events on a daily basis, but sometimes it’s good to take a break to explore other topics. As such, we’ve compiled a list of our office’s current recommendations for your staycation or socially-distant beach day.

Healthcare is a fascinating field for public relations pros like us, but 2020 proved especially riveting as the COVID-19 health crisis wreaked havoc across the globe. Our clients’ important conferences – and live PR opportunities – were canceled to avoid virus spread, and every day brought another news cycle saturated with challenges for the healthcare industry. Though we had to do some outside of the box thinking and ramp up on all things pandemic overnight, the Aria team secured press opportunities for our clients’ to shine through even the most pervasive doom scrolling.

The Aria Marketing staff has spent the past seven months supporting our health IT clients from home amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While working remotely has introduced us to many challenges, like issues with internet coverage, Zoom calls, homeschooling, and crowded households, the Aria team has found innovative ways to set themselves up for success at home. Hear from members of the Aria team below on best practices for working from home as well as what they miss most about our office:

Who said that August is a slow news month? Actually, our team here at Aria has been busy scheduling media interviews, securing coverage wins and getting ready for our clients’ upcoming fall events. Now that we’ve said goodbye to fun “Summer Fridays” spent at the beach, let’s take a look at our top wins for this month:

This summer is flying by!  But, before we say so long to summer and trade in our cold brews for pumpkin spice lattes, we wanted to share some of the biggest wins we scored for our clients in August.

Aria Marketing, a leading healthcare public relations and marketing communications agency, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as the agency of record for AVIA, the nation’s leading network of healthcare organizations committed to transforming care through digital innovation.

As COVID-19 continues to spread at an alarming speed, health systems are facing a wide range of challenges—ranging from operating over their capacity, to a lack of personal protective equipment. To address these issues, the healthcare industry is working tirelessly to innovate at a rapid speed and provide solutions for these problems. One benefit of our exclusive focus on healthcare is that Aria really has a front row seat to some of the innovations and leadership coming from our clients to help the industry tackle this disease.

Meet the newest member of the Aria team, Account Coordinator, Serena Bronda. In getting to know Serena, we’ve learned that she has lived in some amazing places. So, I thought this blog post would be a great excuse to find out a bit more about her experiences around the world.

The sun is shining and Summer Fridays are in full effect, but that doesn’t mean our PR machine has slowed down. We’ve kept plenty busy over the last few weeks, lining up media interviews and securing feature coverage for our clients in top-tier healthcare trades and business pubs. With four clients in tow, we also made a splash at the biggest healthcare finance tradeshow of the year, HFMA ANI! Here’s to our first Aria Client Catch-Up!

Summer is in full swing here at Aria! Our team got to kick off the summer in style in Las Vegas at HFMA ANI (check out our full recap) and we are all enjoying the start of our Summer Fridays. As we soak up the sun, we’re reflecting on the accomplishments of our clients from the past month. If you’re lounging by the pool, why not check out a few of our highlights:

Though the healthcare industry is typically slower than others to modernize, most healthcare IT companies have taken the leap and fully embraced the power of social media. At Aria Marketing, we manage social media accounts for many of our clients, including precision medicine company 2bPrecise. More recently, spurred on by the pandemic, we’ve delved into some paid social media campaigns in an effort to better target an audience and drive engagement.

One of the great things about Aria Marketing is that we get to work with so many technology companies doing amazing things for patients, providers, and the healthcare system in general. One such client is eVideon, a Michigan-based company providing hospitals with interactive patient engagement and digital workflow solutions.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the public relations field, and that’s particularly true for Aria as a healthcare PR agency. The news cycle is moving at an extraordinary pace, lending us even more opportunities to connect our clients’ services, solutions, and expertise to current events. Our client IntelyCare is just one example of a company proving vital to the complex pandemic response efforts.

Interoperability has been a priority and pain point in the healthcare IT space for years, but when ONC started enforcing the long-awaited information-blocking rule in early April 2021, it became mission critical for the industry – and for Aria client Life Image.

Throughout the year, Aria Marketing participates in a variety of charity events to give back to the local community and spread awareness of important causes. Often, we try to find organizations that align in some way with our PR agency’s focus on healthcare. Our most recent charity involvement has been with The Jimmy Fund, a non-profit organization that raises funds to support research and technology for Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Aria made it our mission to raise at least $3,500 as a team and walk the Boston Marathon® Jimmy Fund 10K on September 24th. To date, we have surpassed our goal and kept the momentum going. Getting there wasn’t easy, but there were a few successful tactics we employed which we thought we’d share to help inspire other companies in their fundraising efforts.

There are many opportunities in healthcare journalism for thought leaders to contribute content. Healthcare reporters are continuously soliciting bylined articles from healthcare industry thought leaders and experts to keep up with the content demand of digital media. As a healthcare focused public relations agency our goal is to amplify our client’s thought leadership platform and we see the byline article as one of the greatest ways to do so as they enable experts to directly communicate their insights and expertise in their own words to their desired audience. In general, contributed content – like a bylined article – is an excellent way for the client to control their message and eliminates opportunities for outside biases and perspectives. That said, publications and editors often have very specific criteria and sometimes unspoken expectations that contributed content must adhere to. Below we’ve shared the top three best practices to consider when drafting a byline or any other kind of contributed content.