for hospitals & clinic chains
Where does your hospital’s growth get stuck?
The ad worked. The landing page worked. What broke is everything after the click. We rebuild the tools, data and handoffs that turn a patient enquiry into a booked consultation.
New enquiry · Cardiology · 09:41
Routed to the cardiology coordinator. Call-back due in 10 minutes. Escalates to the on-call desk if missed.
Where the money leaks
Ask one question: what happens in the ten minutes after a form is filled?
In most multi-specialty hospitals the honest answer is a shrug. Here is the path a paid enquiry usually takes, and where it dies.
0min
The enquiry lands in a spreadsheet
Website, Practo, Justdial, missed calls and camps all arrive in different formats. Nobody owns the sheet.
4min
The hospital across the road calls first
Their coordinator received a routed alert. Yours received a WhatsApp forward at the front desk.
18hrs
Your telecaller phones back
Next afternoon, if the sheet was refreshed. The family already decided over dinner the night before.
30days
Four dashboards disagree
Marketing counts a lead. Finance counts a no-show. Nobody can say which channel produced a surgery.
The Opsiko four-layer model
Simplification means fewer handoffs, not fewer campaigns.
Every time an enquiry changes hands, a format, or a system, you lose a percentage of it. We map the handoffs first. The tools follow.
Capture
Where does intent enter, and is it captured the same way every time?
- One intake schema across web, WhatsApp, listings, calls, camps and referrals
- Missed calls logged as enquiries automatically
- Consent captured as a field, not a checkbox
Route
Who responds, how fast, and does anyone know if they didn’t?
- Department-level routing — cardiology to the cardiology coordinator
- A 15-minute response timer with escalation
- Nights and Sundays go to the on-call desk, not voicemail
Nurture
What happens between the first call and the appointment, and after it?
- Opt-in WhatsApp sequences: doctor video, what-to-expect, follow-up nudge
- Reminders and education automated
- Humans kept for the conversation about fear and money
Measure
Which channel produced an actual patient, not a form fill?
- Closed-loop signal from the HIS or EMR: enquiry, OPD visit, procedure
- One number marketing and finance both trust
- Budget moves toward channels that produce surgeries
Notice what is missing: a martech stack recommendation. Deliberately. A 30-bed clinic runs all four layers on a WhatsApp Business API, a light CRM and one integration tool. A 2,000-bed group needs a CDP and consent management. The architecture is the same; only the scale changes.
Six months later
What simpler actually looks like.
None of this needs a bigger team or a bigger stack. It needs one decision about how an enquiry moves through the building, and tools that obey it.
Before Opsiko
- Enquiries spread across a spreadsheet, a WhatsApp group and a call-centre file
- Telecallers dialling the sheet from top to bottom
- Ads optimised for cost per lead, rewarding the junkiest channels
- Marketing and finance arguing over whose number is right
- Compliance reviews the funnel after it is built, so every fix is a rebuild
After Opsiko
- One intake schema, every source, every time
- Warm, routed, context-rich enquiries reach the right coordinator inside 15 minutes
- Ads optimised for cost per consulted patient
- Patients acquired, channels and cost answered from one screen
- Consent, retention and pixel rules baked into the routing logic
Who we work with
Healthcare is harder than e-commerce. We only do healthcare.
The buyer is often the son, not the patient. The conversion happens offline. The record lives in a system marketing cannot see. Generic marketing-ops playbooks break on all three.
Multi-specialty hospitals
Department-level routing, an HIS or EMR closed loop, and one acquisition dashboard across cardiology, ortho, oncology and the rest.
Clinic & day-care chains
One intake and one nurture engine across every branch, so a new location launches with the funnel already wired.
Healthtech & diagnostics
Consent-aware automation, compliant tracking, and attribution that survives the gap between app install and lab visit.
DPDP · HIPAA · consent
Compliance is a design input, not a legal review at the end.
In healthcare, the campaign that cannot launch costs more than the one that underperforms. We clear the path first.
- 01Consent is a field in the intake schema with a retention rule attached, not a checkbox nobody reads.
- 02Marketing pixels fire on pre-consultation pages only, never on anything that could reveal a diagnosis.
- 03Your compliance team is in the room when routing rules are written, which is when their input is cheap. Build first and audit later, and every fix becomes a rebuild.
How an engagement runs
Ninety days from a shrug to one screen.
Three phases, each with a defined deliverable. The audit stands on its own whether or not you continue with us.
Weeks 1–2
Map the handoffs
We trace every enquiry path from source to the HIS or EMR, time each handoff, and find where patients are lost. Consent and pixel exposure is assessed in the same pass.
- Deliverable
- Funnel map, leak estimate and a prioritised remediation plan
Weeks 3–8
Wire the four layers
Intake schema, routing rules and response timers, opt-in nurture sequences, and the closed-loop signal from your hospital system, built on the stack you already pay for wherever possible.
- Deliverable
- A connected funnel, documented, running on your existing tools
Weeks 9–12
Hand over one screen
Your marketing head can answer three questions live: how many patients, from which channels, at what cost per consulted patient. Then we train the team and step back.
- Deliverable
- One acquisition dashboard, a monthly review, a named senior owner
Evidence
What a connected funnel looks like in numbers.
We report on outcomes that appear in a P&L: consulted patients, procedures booked, cost per patient acquired. Not impressions.
Hospital engagements
5times
Growth in conversion and retention after our automation frameworks were implemented.
Across hospital groups we have worked with
Response time
15min
Time to first call-back after routing rules and escalation replaced a shared inbox, down from a full day.
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Reporting
1screen
Patients acquired, channels and cost per consulted patient, answered without assembling a report for three days.
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Questions we get asked
Before you book the audit
What is healthcare marketing operations?
The system of tools, data flows and handoffs that moves a patient enquiry from first contact to a booked consultation, and a closed-loop record of what happened next. It sits between your campaigns and your front desk, call centre and hospital information system.
Do we need HubSpot or Salesforce to fix this?
Not necessarily. The four layers come first. A small clinic can run them on a WhatsApp Business API, a light CRM and one integration tool. Larger groups add a CDP and consent management. The tool follows the design, not the other way round.
What is cost per consulted patient?
Marketing spend divided by the number of enquiries that completed an OPD consultation, rather than by form fills. It needs a closed-loop signal from the HIS or EMR back to marketing, and it is the metric finance and marketing can finally agree on.
How do DPDP and HIPAA change marketing automation for hospitals?
Consent becomes a stored field with a retention rule. Tracking pixels stay on pre-consultation pages only, never on anything that could reveal a diagnosis. Compliance is designed into routing and storage rules up front so fixes do not become rebuilds.
Will this disturb our doctors or front desk?
Very little. Most of the work happens between systems rather than in front of clinicians. Coordinators get cleaner, better-routed enquiries instead of a spreadsheet, and we train the team during handover rather than dropping a new tool on them.
What does the free funnel audit include?
A 45-minute call where we map your current enquiry path live, time the handoffs, and show where patients are being lost. You keep the map whether or not we work together.
Free funnel audit · 45 minutes
Start with the ten-minute question.
If nobody on your marketing team can say what happens in the ten minutes after a form is filled, that is the project. We will map it live on the call.
- A diagram of how a patient enquiry actually moves through your hospital today
- The three handoffs costing you the most, with an estimate attached
- Any consent or pixel exposure we spot on the way