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Healthcare and regulated

Building patient education that could move through review.

A global healthcare company wanted to launch an unbranded education program in a rare-disease category. Before it could expand, the team needed to know whether patient stories could help the community, move through review, and support a larger program.

Primary result
More than 3M impressions, 1.5M engagements, and 28K direct clicks.
Case context
Agency team
Capability
  • Patient education
  • Creator strategy
  • Regulated content systems
Relevant for
  • Patient, HCP, and expert stories
  • Creator and expert programs
  • MLR review planning
  • Review-sensitive content
At a glance
Market
Healthcare and regulated
Context
Agency team
The challenge

Patients needed to hear from people who understood the everyday reality of the condition. Reviewers needed clear boundaries before anything moved into production. The job was not to choose between humanity and structure. It was to design the program so both could exist from the beginning.

My role

I led the creator and content strategy for a review-sensitive program as part of a broader healthcare agency team. I helped decide which patient voices belonged in the program, what each story needed to accomplish, and what creators needed before filming.

The decisions I made
VOICE

Chose patient partners for their lived experience and the educational role their stories could play, not follower count.

STRUCTURE

Built content frameworks and approved talking-point boundaries before filming, so creators could speak naturally and reviewers had a clear structure to evaluate.

SIGNAL

Compared format and language performance, including bilingual captions, then used those signals to shape the next phase.

Results
3M+
impressions
1.5M
engagements
28K+
direct clicks
36%
above engagement comparison
45%
above video benchmark
3 to 9
patient voices

Video generated approximately six times the engagement rate of carousel content.

Bilingual-captioned content reached an 80% video-view rate.

Why this matters

Patient-led education works best when the program protects the person's voice and gives the review team something concrete to evaluate. This page is relevant to healthcare and agency teams building patient, caregiver, creator, or expert programs that need to feel natural without creating avoidable review problems.

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