Patient growth · Journal

Tactics, data and honest essays from a healthcare-only agency.

New pieces most Tuesdays. Written by the people actually running the campaigns — no ghostwriters, no thinkpieces.

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Featured · Paid media · 6 min read

The new rules of Google Ads for healthcare in 2026

Restricted categories expanded again. Here’s what changed for dental, dermatology and medspa advertisers — and the creative tactics that still convert.

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Priya Raman
Paid media lead · Mar 2026
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Compliance · 9 min

Server-side tracking without leaking PHI

A walk-through of a HIPAA-aware GTM setup: hashed conversions, Meta CAPI with identifier stripping, and the exact variables to blacklist.

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SEO · 5 min

How Vanguard Pharmacy doubled organic appointment bookings

Google Business Profile hygiene, location-page architecture, and a reviews cadence that outranked a national chain in 90 days.

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Websites · 4 min

Booking widgets are eating your conversion rate

Why the “open iframe and hope” pattern kills mobile flows, and a 6-step redesign we ship on every dental and medspa site.

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Paid media · 3 min

2026 cost-per-lead benchmarks across 11 specialties

Anonymised data from 180+ accounts — what to actually expect for dermatology, dentistry, physio, optometry and more.

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Retention · 7 min

The email cadence that cut our clients’ no-show rate by 38%

Timing, copy, and the single segment trigger that matters more than the rest combined.

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Compliance · 5 min

PHIPA vs PIPEDA vs HIPAA — what Canadian clinics actually need

A plain-language map of which law applies, when, and the three forms most clinics are still getting wrong.

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Reputation · 4 min

Why we stopped asking for 5-star reviews

The review-gating crackdown, the CRTC letter one of our clients got, and the request flow that replaced it.

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