Healthcare Marketing
Healthcare marketing that respects the regulator and the patient.
Where point-of-care media fits alongside search, retail media and detailing, and how to measure it credibly in the South African market.
What is healthcare marketing?
Healthcare marketing covers every communication a medical brand, provider or funder makes to patients and clinicians: brand advertising, patient education, adherence support, practice growth and professional detailing. In South Africa it operates inside a tight regulatory frame, which makes environment quality and message accuracy more consequential than raw reach.
- 20 min
- Point-of-care dwell
- 6
- Buyable practice categories
- 1.1%
- Network average QR scan rate
- 5 days
- Post-campaign report turnaround
The building blocks
Six decisions that determine whether a healthcare campaign works.
Define the moment
Waiting for a script, waiting for a GP and waiting for a scan are three different mindsets.
Segment by category
Practice type is a sharper audience definition than most demographic proxies.
Write for silence
Muted screens reward a single claim, a proof point and one clear next action.
Build in compliance
Screen claims against SAHPRA and ARB requirements before production, not after.
Plan the response
A QR destination built for a waiting room beats a generic homepage every time.
Measure honestly
Verified plays and scan rates first, modelled reach second.
Where point-of-care sits in the funnel
Search captures demand that already exists. Broadcast and social build awareness at low attention. Point-of-care media does something neither can: it reaches a person in a health mindset, in a trusted setting, with enough time to absorb a real argument.
In practice the strongest South African healthcare plans use point-of-care as the conversion layer, with search capturing the response and social sustaining frequency between visits.
The measurement standard to hold vendors to
Ask any point-of-care vendor for per-screen play logs, an uptime figure with a credit policy attached, and a written impression methodology. If a vendor reports impressions without disclosing how throughput and dwell are modelled, the number cannot be audited and should not be planned against.
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