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Category: mobileStorm for Healthcare – Product Updates

Multi-message, cross-channel triggers have arrived!

mobileStorm fans, partners (we call our clients partners because we really do view them as such) and friends we have great news to announce this morning.  mobileStorm for Healthcare just got a major upgrade.  We’re talking Hyper-drive here.  Up till now, our partners enjoyed the ease of messaging to both email and sms lists in the same campaign through our innovative and efficient drag and drop interface.  They could also use our robust Audience and Communication APIs to trigger email and sms campaigns out of their own system while also maintaining a real-time sync of their database with ours.

Today the platform just got amped up in a big way.  Partners can now message cross channel in campaigns that contain unlimited numbers of email and sms messages in them all triggered off of time, date, behavior, engagement and profile data.  Imagine the most creative message flows and you can build it.  It’ll only get better when we extend Push Notifications and AppMail™ channels into our SaaS platform this year.

Oh yeah, almost forgot that our legendary customer support will be with you every step of the way to assist you should you need advice.  I’m looking forward to seeing many of our partners in person as we showcase this capability and demonstrate how this will revolutionize the way you communicate with your members.

Here are just a few use cases our clients will be clamoring to implement.

1.  Smoking cessation

2. Weight loss programs

3.  Recurring birthday, anniversary and holiday campaigns.

4.  Bill payment and escalation

5.  Daily, Weekly, Monthly Tips.

6.  Appointment Reminders and Reschedule

etc. etc. etc.

Let me know what you think!

Payers Going Mobile?

Payers Going Mobile?The two largest issues app developers have are “How do I get you to download my app?” and “How do I get you to use my app?”  In a universe of millions of apps all fighting for half a square inch of my smartphone screen, that’s no small feat.

Angry Birds is important to me, as is Netflix, Fandango, and tens of apps I use multiple times a week.  Getting my loyalty and mindshare requires something special.

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mobileStorm Launches New Offering Aimed at Creating the “Most Intelligent Communication Platform on the Planet”

mobileStorm, an 11-year veteran of mobile, email, and social communication, announces the release of mobileStorm 5.0, a powerfully designed, cloud-based communication solution for marketers and healthcare organizations.

Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 11th, 2011 – mobileStorm, Inc. (www.mobilestorm.com), a “communication powerhouse” according to the Ford Motor Company, announced today that it has officially released mobileStorm 5.0 (aka mS5), a new, cloud-based communication platform for healthcare payers and providers as well as marketers from a variety of industries.  “mS5 has been several years in the making,” says mobileStorm CEO & Founder Jared Reitzin. He continues, “We have studied where digital communication has been headed for the past decade. Now with the computing power of the cloud, enormous amounts of behavioral data can be crunched in real time, resulting in powerful recommendations that can enable any-sized business to reach the right person, via the right channel, at the right time. mobileStorm is working hard to make intelligent communication a reality, and mS5 is the first step towards that goal. Our mission is to create the most intelligent communication platform on the planet.”

mobileStorm’s offering represents the culmination of the company’s extensive experience servicing the messaging needs of major brands such as Humana, New Balance, and Kaiser Permanente.

Amazing User Experience

mobileStorm 5.0 focuses intensely on user experience. The system was designed with the Apple way of thinking that “less is more.” Designed to be a clear, simple, and easy-to-use tool for messaging, the cloud-based SaaS platform breaks the communication process down into three simple steps: plan, compose, and schedule. Front-end user experience technology such as HTML5 enables the “drag and drop” of many objects, screen slide transitions, and dynamic displays of data. An amazing user experience is incredibly valuable for the healthcare industry where typical enterprise software systems are bulky, ugly, and difficult to use. Mr. Reitzin continues, “We want our healthcare partners spending more time on keeping their consumers healthy and less time trying to figure out how to create and send messages.”

Integrated Communication

“The first phase to achieving our mission of communication intelligence is to ensure our clients can communicate with their customers over multiple channels; and we needed to make sure that the channels were not in their own silos,” says Mr. Reitzin. “With mS5, adding another channel to a single campaign is as simple as clicking a new tab. Imagine being able to run an SMS poll alongside an email offer, and both messages are working together to influence your customers to act. We spent two months alone validating how to provide a multi-channel campaign experience in three steps.”

Advanced Reporting

In the same way that multiple channels of communication have been integrated into a campaign creation experience, mobileStorm took an integrated approach to reporting. A client sending out an email and SMS campaign at the same time can view an integrated dashboard for detailed reports such as open and click-thru rates, message failures and reasons, complaints, and unsubscribe data.  mobileStorm’s goal, Mr. Reitzin said, “is to save our clients time and give them what they want–one screen with all of their important information in one place.”

Additional Features:

mobileStorm 5.0 also supports campaign goal-setting, advanced audience segmentation, message personalization, social media integration with Facebook and Twitter, advanced list management, as well as tightened security and one-click customer service. For its enterprise healthcare customers, mobileStorm received its HIPAA compliance in June of this year.

To find out more about mobileStorm 5.0, please visit www.mobilestorm.com/ms5.

About mobileStorm

Based in Los Angeles, California, with more than a decade of mobile and email messaging experience, mobileStorm has delivered billions of messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as Humana, NASCAR, American Idol, and Kaiser Permanente. As a Communication Service Provider (CSP), mobileStorm’s mission is to help companies communicate with as much relevancy as possible, allowing everyone to win, from the ISP or carrier who delivers a message to the consumer who desperately wants to engage with content that matters. mobileStorm backs up their web-based technology with expert advice and legendary customer service that drives ROI for its customers.

A Community Centric View of mHealth Communication

Dear Readers,

I was asked the other day what I thought differentiated mobileStorm for Healthcare from other communication within the exploding mhealth space.  It was a wholly expected question and one that we began thinking about before the first line of code for our new platform was ever written.  After exhaustive product development, client feedback and validation, I can confidently say that it is our Community-centric approach that differentiates us.

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