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Associate online appointment bookings with marketing efforts

Send URL parameters to NexHealth to understand the source of your online bookings and measure ad campaign performance

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If you are spending money on marketing platforms like Google or Facebook ads, its natural to want to understand how that spend converts into real patient bookings.

With NexHealth you can get this kind of visibility with UTM parameters.

A UTM parameter is a piece of text after the main part of a URL to help know where a user came from.

UTM parameters are used by every website and you can read more about them as a technology here, and below is a table of the data included in UTM parameters that NexHealth is only able to receive:

Parameter

Purpose

Example

utm_campaign

Identifies a specific product promotion or strategic campaign.

utm_campaign=abc123

utm_id

Identifies which ads campaign this referral references.

utm_id=789xyz

utm_source

Identifies which site sent the traffic, and is a required parameter.

utm_source=google

utm_medium

Identifies what type of link was used, such as email or pay-per-click advertising.

utm_medium=ppc

utm_content

Identifies what type of ad format was clicked to bring the user to the site, such as a banner ad or a text link. It is often used for A/B testing and content-targeted ads.

utm_content=logolink or utm_content=textlink

You can also read more about finding and decorating these variables for Google and Facebook.

To analyze conversion with NexHealth:

  1. Use the NexHealth branded button configured to send NexHealth UTM parameters. The script is provided in your institutions online booking links page (Go to Settings -> Online booking links).

  2. Go to Analytics -> Online Booking in NexHealth and you'll be able to export a CSV of appointments with available UTM parameters.

  3. You can then use this CSV to do further conversion analytics.

Keep UTM information non-descriptive

For privacy, you should always keep UTM parameters non-descriptive. For example, do not configure a utm_campaign or utm_id to say anything understandable, such as “sale,” “promotion,” or “cure”. You can later internally associate these UTM parameters after downloading this information from our product.

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