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Ragan’s Top Women in Communications Awards Honor Jodi Amendola for Leading with Confidence and Empathy 

Amendola Communications founder and CEO an honoree in the Leaders category for breaking new ground in healthcare, health tech public relations and marketing

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 16, 2023 – Jodi Amendola, CEO and founder of Amendola, a nationally recognized, award-winning healthcare technology and life sciences public relations and marketing firm, is an honoree in the 2023 Ragan’s Top Women in Communications Awards in the Leaders category.

The prestigious awards program honors the outstanding women who have redefined the boundaries of communications, shining a spotlight on their exceptional achievements and celebrating their valuable contributions to the industry. The Leaders category recognizes inspiring women who lead with confidence and empathy and have earned the admiration of their teammates.

Jodi Amendola is a pioneer in healthcare, health IT, and life sciences public relations and marketing. Twenty years ago, her mission to improve healthcare led her to start her own agency, Amendola Communications. She has grown the agency to a team of 25 account directors, media relations and social media pros, writers, and execs who are known in the market as the “A-Team” for the stellar client service and exceptional, measurable results they achieve for the agency’s 50 clients.

“I’m honored to be recognized by such a prestigious awards competition,” Amendola said. “On a personal note, I would like to extend my gratitude to all the women who have played essential roles in my own career development, serving as mentors, coaches, friends, and advocates. I’ve taken those learnings to build an organization of senior-level team members who are proud of the work they do, and clients who keep coming back because of the results we achieve for them. In fact, nearly 90% of our client base represent multi-year and repeat clients.”

Ragan will honor the women making the list at a special awards gala in New York City on Feb. 28 and in special editorial programming.

The award marks a great showing for the agency during the past year. In 2023, Amendola won two Platinum awards and one Gold in the Public Relations category of the MarCom Awards, one of the largest international creative competitions in the world. The agency also was honored recently in Ragan PR Daily’s Content Marketing Awards’ Agency of the Year, which recognizes the most effective and productive teams in public relations and marketing.

About Amendola

Amendola is an award-winning, insights-driven public relations and marketing firm that integrates media relations, social media, content and lead gen programs to move healthcare, life sciences/pharma and healthcare IT decision-makers to action. The agency represents some of the industry’s best-known brands as well as groundbreaking startups that are disrupting the status quo. Nearly 90% of its client base represents multi-year clients and/or repeat client executives. Amendola’s seasoned team of PR and marketing pros understand the ongoing complexities of the healthcare ecosystem and provide strategic guidance and creative direction to drive positive ROI, boost reputation and increase market share. Making an impact since 2003, Amendola combines traditional and digital media to fuel meaningful and measurable growth. For more information about the industry’s “A-Team,” visit www.acmarketingpr.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Media Contact:

Marcia G. Rhodes, mrhodes@acmarketingpr.com

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Managed IT, Cybersecurity Leader Anatomy IT Selects Amendola for Strategic PR Services

Award-winning, full-service health IT agency to help educate hospitals, physicians’ practices on using technology to deliver exceptional patient care

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 12, 2023 – With cybersecurity attacks keeping healthcare CIOs up at night, Amendola, a nationally recognized, award-winning healthcare technology and life sciences public relations and marketing firm, is pleased to announce that Anatomy IT has selected the firm for strategic PR services. Amendola will promote Anatomy IT’s important role guiding healthcare organizations in the use of technology and cybersecurity solutions.

Amendola is implementing a comprehensive PR plan to demonstrate Anatomy IT’s industry-leading technology and services, new offerings, accomplishments, customer wins, and industry partnerships.

“Amendola came highly recommended to us for its unrivaled healthcare and health IT PR knowledge, bench strength and media relationships,” Anatomy IT CEO Frank Forte said. “They hit the ground running and have already delivered amazing results. We look forward to a long and successful partnership.”

Agency CEO Jodi Amendola said: “Anatomy IT enables mid-size healthcare organizations to realize the same information technology efficiency and scalability benefits as large healthcare systems at a fraction of the cost. We are excited to promote its important initiatives and differentiators to the marketplace to showcase Anatomy IT’s unrivaled healthcare IT and cybersecurity expertise that enable healthcare providers of all sizes to deliver exceptional patient care.”

Anatomy IT has consistently demonstrated its ability to adapt and innovate with its comprehensive platform, including managed IT, cybersecurity, cloud, value-based care services, HIPAA compliance, and strategic IT planning. Recently, Anatomy IT was recognized on the prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America for 2023.

About Amendola

Amendola is an award-winning, insights-driven public relations and marketing firm that integrates media relations, social media, content, and lead gen programs to move healthcare, life sciences/pharma and healthcare IT decision-makers to action. The agency represents some of the industry’s best-known brands as well as groundbreaking startups that are disrupting the status quo. Nearly 90% of its client base represents multi-year clients and/or repeat client executives. Amendola’s seasoned team of PR and marketing pros understand the ongoing complexities of the healthcare ecosystem and provide strategic guidance and creative direction to drive positive ROI, boost reputation and increase market share. Making an impact since 2003, Amendola combines traditional and digital media to fuel meaningful and measurable growth. For more information about the industry’s “A-Team,” visit www.acmarketingpr.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Anatomy IT

Anatomy IT helps healthcare providers deliver exceptional patient care through technology and cybersecurity solutions. With 30+ years of experience, we understand healthcare organizations’ unique risks, opportunities, and challenges. Anatomy IT is one of the largest and fastest-growing healthcare IT companies, partnering with over 1,750 clients serving 38,000 healthcare staff nationwide, including ASCs, physician groups, and hospitals.

Media Contact: Marcia G. Rhodes for Amendola, mrhodes@acmarketingpr.com

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Amendola Brings Home 3 Awards for Outstanding Health Tech PR & Marketing Programs

Leading Healthcare, health tech-focused agency also a finalist for Ragan PR Daily Agency of the Year

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 14, 2023 – Amendola Communications (Amendola), a nationally recognized, award-winning healthcare technology and life sciences public relations and marketing firm, has won three MarCom awards and is a finalist for Agency of the Year in another top awards program.

Amendola won two Platinums and one Gold in the Public Relations category of the MarCom Awards, one of the largest global creative competitions in the world. The first Platinum was for work the agency did on behalf of KeyCare, the nation’s first virtual care platform built with Epic’s EHR platform. Amendola designed and executed a strategic PR plan that successfully launched the startup in a crowded marketplace, including creating sales material, an e-book, news release, and securing multiple interviews and article placements.

“We chose to work with Amendola because their people are great and they have a long track record of success in healthcare,” said Lyle Berkowitz, MD, CEO of KeyCare. “As a new company in a crowded space, we needed to make sure every one of our potential clients knew who we were and how we were different. Amendola came through amazingly well by navigating us through strategy, helping us create fantastic content and ensuring a huge array of placements. As a result, our message is getting across, clients know who we are, and our company is growing tremendously.” 

The second Platinum win in MarCom’s PR category was for helping DrFirst launch an awards program to recognize healthcare organizations using technology in innovative ways to improve patient care. Gaining recognition for a new awards program in a field crowded with them required Amendola to call upon its years of experience and solid relationships throughout the industry.

“Our collaboration with Amendola has spanned several years, and their expertise ensured a strong launch for our Healthiverse Heroes Awards, as well as well-deserved attention for the honorees,” said G. Cameron Deemer, CEO of DrFirst.

Amendola won Gold in the PR category for helping Equality Health showcase its value-based care model by writing compelling thought leadership articles and placing them in leading healthcare industry publications.

Amendola also has been named one of four finalists for Ragan PR Daily’s Content Marketing Awards’ prestigious Agency of the Year. This competition honors the most effective and productive teams in public relations and marketing. The winner will be announced at the end of November.  

“What a wonderful way to celebrate our 20th anniversary,” said agency CEO Jodi Amendola. “Winning the three MarCom awards and being named a finalist for Agency of the Year is the result of two decades of refining our practices and honing our skills to produce the best possible results for our clients. We’re proud and excited to be recognized for our hard work and dedication and look forward to continued success.”

About Amendola

Amendola is an award-winning, insights-driven public relations and marketing firm that integrates media relations, social media, content and lead gen programs to move healthcare, life sciences/pharma and healthcare IT decision-makers to action. The agency represents some of the industry’s best-known brands as well as groundbreaking startups that are disrupting the status quo. Nearly 90% of its client base represents multi-year clients and/or repeat client executives. Amendola’s seasoned team of PR and marketing pros understand the ongoing complexities of the healthcare ecosystem and provide strategic guidance and creative direction to drive positive ROI, boost reputation and increase market share. Making an impact since 2003, Amendola combines traditional and digital media to fuel meaningful and measurable growth. For more information about the industry’s “A-Team,” visit www.acmarketingpr.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Media Contact:

Marcia G. Rhodes, mrhodes@acmarketingpr.com

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Avalon Healthcare Solutions Selects Amendola for Strategic PR Services 

Award-winning healthcare PR agency partners with world’s first and only lab insights company to amplify thought leadership and company achievements

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 6, 2023 – Amendola, a nationally recognized, award-winning healthcare technology and life sciences public relations and marketing firm, announced today that Avalon Healthcare Solutions, a leading provider of technology-enabled laboratory benefit management and lab insights solutions, has chosen the firm to amplify client successes, thought leadership, and industry best practices.

“The importance of lab insights to the transition to value-driven care, cost control and improved disease management has been long overlooked,” said Bill Kerr, MD, CEO of Avalon. “We’re teaming with Amendola to raise awareness of our solutions and how they help health plans, clinicians and patients ensure the right test is performed, for the right care at the right cost. We chose Amendola for its deep industry knowledge and media connections and we look forward to collaborating with its experts to further our business.”

Amendola is implementing a comprehensive content marketing, communications, and media relations plan for Avalon aimed at showcasing the company’s value proposition, technology and services, new offerings, accomplishments, customer wins, and industry partnerships.

“This will be my fifth time working with Amendola over the past 20 years,” said Michele Norton, MS, RN, Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at Avalon. “I hire them wherever I go because they are simply the best at what they do. They’re part of my formula for success.”

Welcoming Avalon to the agency roster, Amendola CEO Jodi Amendola said, “It’s so gratifying when former clients bring you on board to help their new companies. Avalon is an exciting partner to work with, not just for its innovative offerings, but because the company has repeatedly been singled out for its exemplary workplace culture and leadership. It is an honor to work with such a thoughtful and forward-looking business.”

Avalon provides healthcare plans with lab benefit management solutions and analytics to better manage lab testing in order to control costs, ensure appropriate treatment protocols, and provide actionable insights for earlier disease detection.

About Amendola

Amendola is an award-winning, insights-driven public relations and marketing firm that integrates media relations, social media, content, and lead gen programs to move healthcare, life sciences/pharma and healthcare IT decision-makers to action. The agency represents some of the industry’s best-known brands as well as groundbreaking startups that are disrupting the status quo. Nearly 90% of its client base represents multi-year clients and/or repeat client executives. Amendola’s seasoned team of PR and marketing pros understand the ongoing complexities of the healthcare ecosystem and provide strategic guidance and creative direction to drive positive ROI, boost reputation and increase market share. Making an impact since 2003, Amendola combines traditional and digital media to fuel meaningful and measurable growth. For more information about the industry’s “A-Team,” visit www.acmarketingpr.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Avalon Healthcare Solutions    

Avalon Healthcare Solutions is the world’s first and only Lab Insights company, bringing together our proven Lab Benefit Management solutions, lab science expertise, digitized lab values, and proprietary analytics to help healthcare insurers proactively inform appropriate care, reduce costs, and improve clinical outcomes. Working with health plans across the country, the company covers more than 38 million lives and delivers 8-12% outpatient lab benefit savings. Avalon is pioneering a new era of value-driven care with its Lab Insights Program that captures, digitizes, and analyzes lab results in real-time to provide actionable insights for earlier disease detection, ensuring appropriate treatment protocols, and driving down overall costs.

For more information about Avalon, visit www.avalonhcs.com.

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Media Contact:

Marcia G. Rhodes

Amendola Communications

mrhodes@acmarketingpr.com

Amendola Honored as a Top Agency for 2023 by PR Daily 

Healthcare, health tech and life sciences-focused agency wins for the second year in a row 

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 2, 2023 – Amendola, a nationally recognized, award-winning healthcare technology and life sciences public relations and marketing firm, is proud to announce that it has been named a 2023 Top Small Agency of the Year by Ragan’s PR Daily. Amendola also won the award in 2022. 

PR Daily’s Top Agencies Awards recognize firms that conceive and execute outstanding PR and marketing campaigns. The Small Agency of the Year award goes to top agencies with annual revenues between $5 million and $15 million. Winners were selected based on the strength of award entry forms submitted by thousands of agencies from across the globe.  

“To be recognized as one of the best small agencies in the world for two consecutive years is simply amazing. These awards were made possible only through the efforts of our outstanding team,” said agency CEO Jodi Amendola. “Like every agency we’ve had to deal with fallout from the pandemic, but we’ve never wavered on our standards or our commitment to delivering the best results for our clients.”  

“I have worked with team Amendola for more than 15 years and the reason is simple – it’s all about the results they deliver,” said Greg Miller, Chief Growth Officer, Lumeon. “Team Amendola is fun and easy to work with and what they deliver is much more than just PR. They have deep relationships with industry analysts and journalists, but they also create great articles, content and white papers that get attention, help us build our pipeline and drive opportunities for the sales team.” 

Winners of PR Daily’s Top Agencies Awards will be honored at a ceremony and luncheon on June 14 at the Yale Club in New York City.  

About Amendola 

Amendola is an award-winning, insights-driven public relations and marketing firm that integrates media relations, social media, content and lead gen programs to move healthcare, life sciences/pharma and healthcare IT decision-makers to action. The agency represents some of the industry’s best-known brands as well as groundbreaking startups that are disrupting the status quo. Nearly 90% of its client base represents multi-year clients and/or repeat client executives. Amendola’s seasoned team of PR and marketing pros understand the ongoing complexities of the healthcare ecosystem and provide strategic guidance and creative direction to drive positive ROI, boost reputation and increase market share. Making an impact since 2003, Amendola combines traditional and digital media to fuel meaningful and measurable growth. For more information about the industry’s “A-Team,” visit www.acmarketingpr.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn. 

Media Contact: 

Marcia G. Rhodes, mrhodes@acmarketingpr.com 

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Raintree Systems Engages Amendola for Strategic PR and Marketing Services

Award-winning healthcare PR agency to collaborate with physical therapy technology leader to amplify thought leadership and company milestones

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 2, 2023 – Amendola, a nationally recognized, award-winning healthcare technology and life sciences public relations and marketing firm, announced today that Raintree, a leading provider of electronic health records (EHR) including patient engagement, scheduling, billing, and practice management, in addition to revenue cycle management (RCM) software solutions for the therapy and rehab industry, has selected the firm to amplify client successes, thought leadership, and industry best practices.

Amendola is implementing comprehensive PR and marketing plans to demonstrate Raintree’s industry-leading technology and services, new offerings, accomplishments, customer wins, and industry partnerships.

“The physical therapy and rehab industry has reached a moment where improved efficiency and efficacy are priorities to advance their medical practices,” said Allison Jones, vice president of marketing for Raintree. “Our partnership with Amendola will enable us to educate the industry by showcasing our ability to help clients deliver better outcomes through technology and the power of analytics.”

“Raintree is dedicated to empowering healthcare organizations with the tools, processes, and services they need to operate the best medical practice possible,” said agency CEO Jodi Amendola. “We are excited to collaborate with Raintree to amplify its accomplishments in enabling therapy and rehab organizations to provide the best services possible for every patient they treat.”

Raintree’s solution is a fully integrated and interoperable EMR platform that powers a practice’s entire business cycle from a single source. From clinical documentation to patient engagement, to RCM and billing, Raintree helps automate manual processes, improve efficiencies, maximize revenue, and deliver business intelligence allowing clinicians to focus on delivering quality care and growing a successful practice.

About Amendola

Amendola is an award-winning, insights-driven public relations and marketing firm that integrates media relations, social media, content and lead gen programs to move healthcare, life sciences/pharma and healthcare IT decision-makers to action. The agency represents some of the industry’s best-known brands as well as groundbreaking startups that are disrupting the status quo. Nearly 90% of its client base represents multi-year clients and/or repeat client executives. Amendola’s seasoned team of PR and marketing pros understand the ongoing complexities of the healthcare ecosystem and provide strategic guidance and creative direction to drive positive ROI, boost reputation and increase market share. Making an impact since 2003, Amendola combines traditional and digital media to fuel meaningful and measurable growth. For more information about the industry’s “A-Team,” visit www.acmarketingpr.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Raintree Systems

Raintree is the preeminent platform for enterprise and mid-sized therapy provider organizations. They have a proven track record of success and client satisfaction providing solutions in patient engagement and communications, clinical documentation, revenue cycle management (RCM), and business intelligence/analytics for physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, audiology, and ABA across all treatment settings. From pediatrics to geriatrics, Raintree has more than 2,500 implementations and more than 25,000 users daily. Its commitment to “Software-as-a-Relationship” uniquely distinguishes it from other providers in the market. To learn more about Raintree, visit https://www.raintreeinc.com/.

Media Contact:

Marcia Rhodes, mrhodes@acmarketingpr.com

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MDClone Engages Amendola for Strategic PR and Marketing Services

Award-winning healthcare PR agency to collaborate with healthcare data leader to amplify thought leadership and company milestones

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 13, 2022 – Amendola, a nationally recognized, award-winning healthcare technology and life sciences public relations and marketing firm, announced today that MDClone, a digital health company and leader in synthetic data, has selected the firm to amplify client successes, thought leadership, and industry best practices.

Amendola is implementing comprehensive PR and media plans to demonstrate MDClone’s industry-leading technology and services, new offerings, accomplishments, customer wins, and industry partnerships.

“Healthcare organizations have a strong need for real-world data to inform research initiatives, but often struggle to access it due to restrictive privacy laws and fragmented, incomplete patient records,” said Erin Giegling, vice president of marketing, MDClone. “Our partnership with Amendola will enable us to educate the industry on the value of accessing healthcare data by showcasing our ability to help clients deliver better outcomes through privacy-enabled shared data sets.”

“MDClone is dedicated to empowering healthcare organizations with the tools, processes, and services they need to translate data into better outcomes,” said Amendola CEO Jodi Amendola. “We are excited to collaborate with MDClone to amplify its accomplishments in enabling health systems and life sciences companies to maximize data utility while maintaining patient privacy.”

MDClone was founded in Israel in 2016. The MDClone ADAMS Platform includes innovative data publishing capabilities that further enhance the protection of patient privacy. MDClone’s unique technology enables any user of a healthcare organization to organize, access, and protect the privacy of patient data, empowering healthcare workers to rapidly transform ideas into actionable insights and take action.

Recently, MDClone was awarded Best Healthcare Big Data Platform by the MedTech Breakthrough Awards in 2021 and 2022. MDClone was also selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2021 for the powerful MDClone ADAMS Platform.

MDClone is backed by some of the most prominent investors in the U.S. and Israel, including: aMoon, Lightspeed, OrbiMed, Warburg Pincus, and Viola Growth.

About Amendola

Amendola is an award-winning, insights-driven public relations and marketing firm that integrates media relations, social media, content and lead gen programs to move healthcare, life sciences/pharma and healthcare IT decision-makers to action. The agency represents some of the industry’s best-known brands as well as groundbreaking startups that are disrupting the status quo. Nearly 90% of its client base represents multi-year clients and/or repeat client executives. Amendola’s seasoned team of PR and marketing pros understand the ongoing complexities of the healthcare ecosystem and provide strategic guidance and creative direction to drive positive ROI, boost reputation and increase market share. Making an impact since 2003, Amendola combines traditional and digital media to fuel meaningful and measurable growth. For more information about the industry’s “A-Team,” visit www.acmarketingpr.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About MDClone

MDClone offers an innovative, self-service data analytics environment powering exploration, discovery, and collaboration throughout healthcare ecosystems cross-institutionally and globally. The powerful underlying infrastructure of the MDClone ADAMS Platform allows users to overcome common barriers in healthcare in order to organize, access, and protect the privacy of patient data while accelerating research, improving operations and quality, and driving innovation to deliver better patient outcomes. Founded in Israel in 2016, MDClone serves major health systems, payers, and life science customers in the United States, Canada, and Israel. Visit mdclone.com for more information.   

Media Contact:

Marcia Rhodes, mrhodes@acmarketingpr.com

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Amendola Communications Wins Three MarCom Awards

Boutique Healthcare & Health Tech PR Firm Wins Two Golds and an Honorable Mention for Campaigns for ABOUT, Verana Health and 4medica.   

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 1, 2022 – Amendola Communications, a nationally recognized healthcare and technology public relations and marketing firm, has won three MarCom Awards for work on behalf of clients.

Amendola won Gold for campaigns for ABOUT and Verana Health and an Honorable Mention for work for 4medica. The annual international awards sponsored by the Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals honor excellence in marketing and communications.  

“We’re thrilled to win the MarCom Awards,” said agency Chief Executive Officer Jodi Amendola. “While we measure our success in the results we produce for clients, recognition from your peers is gratifying because they, better than anyone, know how much work and creativity goes into a winning campaign.”

Amendola won Gold for helping ABOUT (formerly Central Logic) raise awareness of the importance of care orchestration. Amendola created a 120-day plan that shaped the narrative with key stakeholders and established ABOUT’s reputation as a thought leader in care access and orchestration. Tactics included press releases, byline articles, executive interviews, blog posts, and social media.

Amendola’s second Gold was for its work promoting the launch of Verana Health’s VeraQ™ population health data engine and curated, disease- and therapeutic-specific Qdata™ modules in three therapeutic areas. Amendola helped to position VeraQ and Qdata as a source for quality insights, specifically targeting trade press within three medical specialties. Tactics included: press releases, blog posts authored by clinical experts, targeted media outreach and interviews, social media promotion, and analyst meetings through which Amendola positioned Verana Health as a key innovator.

The Honorable Mention was for helping 4medica raise awareness among healthcare providers of patient safety problems caused by duplicate records and how 4medica can solve them. Amendola created and executed a comprehensive plan to put the problem squarely on the radar of the target audience and position 4medica as a solution. Tactics included: press releases, bylined articles in relevant media outlets, interviews, blog posts, social media and email campaigns.

Amendola also won two Golds and an Honorable Mention in the 2019 MarCom Awards.

Amendola has built a loyal customer base among the healthcare, health IT and life sciences industries by delivering significant, measurable results for healthcare, healthcare tech and pharma-focused organizations, many of whose leaders have hired us at successive companies. To see other awards Amendola has won and to learn more about the agency, click here.  

About MarCom Awards

MarCom Awards honors excellence in marketing and communication while recognizing the creativity, hard work, and generosity of industry professionals. Since its inception in 2004, MarCom has evolved into one of the largest, most-respected creative competitions in the world. Each year about 6,500 print and digital entries are submitted from dozens of countries. MarCom is administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP). The international organization, founded in 1995, consists of several thousand marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, digital, and web professionals. AMCP administers recognition programs, provides judges, and rewards outstanding achievement and service to the community. Entrants are not charged entry fees for work they create pro bono for nonprofits. In the past few years alone, AMCP has contributed more than $250,000 to charitable causes.

About Amendola

Amendola is an award-winning, insights-driven public relations and marketing firm that integrates media relations, social media, content and lead gen programs to move healthcare, life sciences/pharma and healthcare IT decision-makers to action. The agency represents some of the industry’s best-known brands as well as groundbreaking startups that are disrupting the status quo. Nearly 90% of its client base represents multi-year clients and/or repeat client executives. Amendola’s seasoned team of PR and marketing pros understand the ongoing complexities of the healthcare ecosystem and provide strategic guidance and creative direction to drive positive ROI, boost reputation and increase market share. Making an impact since 2003, Amendola combines traditional and digital media to fuel meaningful and measurable growth. For more information about the industry’s “A-Team,” visit www.acmarketingpr.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Media Contact:

Marcia Rhodes

Amendola Communications

mrhodes@acmarketingpr.com

Amendola Communications Named to 2023 Agency Elite Top 100 by PRNEWS

Boutique Healthcare & Health Tech Firm Singled Out for Innovation and Flexibility with Clients   

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 27, 2022 – Amendola Communications announced today that it has been named one of the 100 most innovative PR and communication firms by industry authority PRNEWS.

In naming Amendola to the 2023 Agency Elite Top 100, PRNEWS cited its recent innovations, including broadening its strong focus on healthcare technology vendors to innovators in life sciences and disease research. PRNEWS also noted that Amendola implemented a flexible business model to work with several clients to help them develop messaging and corporate branding at a significantly expanded level.

“Flexibility and evolution are two words that immediately come to mind when I think about the agencies on this year’s list,” says Erika Bradbury, Editorial Director, PRNEWS. “The firms this year stood out for their work on the most important issues of today, including DEI initiatives, social impact causes and COVID-19 relief work, as well as their understanding of the importance of being nimble in an always-on media world.”

“We’re thrilled to be recognized by PRNEWS,” said agency Chief Executive Officer Jodi Amendola. “Public relations is an ever-changing industry and we believe continually evolving and expanding our offerings and capabilities is the best way to service our clients.”

Amendola has built a loyal customer base among the healthcare, health IT and life sciences industries by delivering significant, measurable results for healthcare, healthcare tech and pharma-focused organizations, many of whose leaders have hired us at successive companies. To see other awards Amendola has won and to learn more about the agency, click here.  

About Amendola

Amendola is an award-winning, insights-driven public relations and marketing firm that integrates media relations, social media, content and lead gen programs to move healthcare, life sciences/pharma and healthcare IT decision-makers to action. The agency represents some of the industry’s best-known brands as well as groundbreaking startups that are disrupting the status quo. Nearly 90% of its client base represents multi-year clients and/or repeat client executives. Amendola’s seasoned team of PR and marketing pros understand the ongoing complexities of the healthcare ecosystem and provide strategic guidance and creative direction to drive positive ROI, boost reputation and increase market share. Making an impact since 2003, Amendola combines traditional and digital media to fuel meaningful and measurable growth. For more information about the industry’s “A-Team,” visit www.acmarketingpr.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Media Contact:

Marcia Rhodes

Amendola Communications

mrhodes@acmarketingpr.com

Bulldog PR Awards 2022 Honors Amendola for HSBlox Value-Based Care Campaign

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. July 7, 2022 – Amendola announced today that it has won a 2022 Bulldog PR Award in the Best Thought Leadership category for its HSBlox campaign, solidifying the company’s reputation as a top public relations (PR) and marketing communications agency for healthcare and health IT. The Bulldog PR Awards, which celebrate the best and brightest corporate communications and PR efforts, honored Amendola with a Bronze award for a campaign it developed to increase awareness of HSBlox in the value-based care (VBC) space.

The overarching goal of the campaign was to communicate the challenges of VBC models and the ways in which HSBlox uses contract modeling, network build-out, contract administration, permissioned data exchange and payment technologies to integrate traditional medical networks with non-medical ones (i.e., social services agencies, community-based organizations) to bring VBC administration to fruition. Amendola set on a course of creating third-party references by engaging industry analysts and media outlets. The firm researched top healthcare industry analysts, reporters and publications covering VBC, social determinants of health (SDOH), and health equity. Amendola then built a weekly cadence of media campaigns, alternating among proactive, issues-based pitching; HSBlox news; and thought leadership. 

Amendola drafted pitches and contributed content that added new elements to the media and analyst coverage over the last few years.  For example, while most coverage focused on the need to address SDOH in VBC program models, fewer articles discussed the challenges of incorporating digitized unstructured data in a way that made it part of a patient’s entire medical record for whole-person health. Lastly, Amendola pitched briefings with top analyst firms covering VBC and the payer markets. 

The campaign secured 17 briefings with eight different analyst firms over a 10-month period. Those briefings resulted in four analyst reports or blog posts, 19 pieces of vendor-neutral contributed content, and five podcast appearances. 

“We are proud to be recognized for the hard work that our team put into executing this brand awareness campaign,” said agency CEO, Jodi Amendola. “Our PR initiatives enabled HSBlox sales leaders to leverage the earned content created by the campaign to escort prospects through the sales funnel and underscore the importance of the digital infrastructure needed to successfully achieve VBC models.”

About Amendola

Amendola is an award-winning, insights-driven public relations and marketing firm that integrates media relations, social media, content and lead gen programs to move healthcare, life sciences/pharma and healthcare IT decision-makers to action. The agency represents some of the industry’s best-known brands as well as groundbreaking startups that are disrupting the status quo. Nearly 90% of its client base represents multi-year clients and/or repeat client executives. Amendola’s seasoned team of PR and marketing pros understand the ongoing complexities of the healthcare ecosystem and provide strategic guidance and creative direction to drive positive ROI, boost reputation and increase market share. Making an impact since 2003, Amendola combines traditional and digital media to fuel meaningful and measurable growth. For more information about the industry’s “A-Team,” visit www.acmarketingpr.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About HSBlox

HSBlox is an Atlanta-based technology company empowering healthcare organizations with the tools and support to deliver value-based care (VBC) successfully and sustainably.  HSBlox’s CureAlign® platform enables healthcare organizations to administer value-based programs, including contract modeling, network build-out, contract administration, permissioned data exchange and payment. Recently, the company released CureAlign 3.5, combining its Contract Builder and modeling capabilities with its Contract Library for seamless deployment of value-based programs. Along with CureAlign’s one-of-a-kind hierarchical approach to VBC participant onboarding, alternative payment models can combine global reimbursement programs with episode-specific arrangements to deliver unparalleled transparency in pursuit of the Quintuple Aim for healthcare improvement.

Follow HSBlox on LinkedIn to see the latest about value-based program administration or visit www.hsblox.com to read more about scaling of value-based programs.

Media contact:

Marcia Rhodes

Amendola Communications

mrhodes@acmarketingpr.com