Senior Medical Tourism Destinations – Latin America

Medical tourism expert Maria Todd reviews senior medical tourism destinations in Latin America that are ripe for investment Last month, I interviewed my mentor, Dr Maria Todd, CEO of Mercury Advisory Group about creating senior (“third age”, in some cultures) long stay medical tourism development projects. This month, I’ve continued the discussion by addressing where she...

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MedicalTourismStrategy in the News

Dr Maria Todd Launches New MedicalTourismStrategy Website 06 January 2015 – Denver, Colorado USA. The first and only online, data and information repository and answer forum focused solely on medical tourism strategic planning for governments, investors, insurers, employers, & health tourism industry stakeholders....

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Measuring the ROI Benefits of Social Media for Medical Tourism Providers

Established hospitals and clinics are comfortable focusing on traditional metrics. They expect that sales agents (facilitators, travel agents, and tour operators) and traditional media buys to promote to their target markets and drive immediate sales. Social media for any business is a longer-term sales cycle than traditional sales, but in social media for medical tourism is proving to...

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The Importance of Social Media for Healthcare Leaders

Social media for healthcare leaders is rapidly changing at an incredible pace, and one of the major factors contributing to this dramatic change is the upsurge in the level of healthcare communication. Some of the mind-blowing facts are mentioned here: • 75% of the engagement on a Facebook post happens in the first 5 hours....

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21 Ways to Differentiate Your Medical Tourism Service for a Competitive Advantage

Finding a differentiator for your medical tourism hospital, clinic or medical practice is not an easy task. Many medical tourism suppliers struggle mightily only to come up with a differentiator that doesn’t really differentiate them at all. To be successful, a medical tourism supplier seeking to differentiate themselves must meet three important criteria: Your differentiation must be true....

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Mental Health Medical Tourism: Opportunities for investors

Mental health medical tourism opens opportunities for affordable, high-quality diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation for the most devastating conditions. Medical tourism for mental health opens a wide breadth and depth of developer opportunity with the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation services for a vast array of mental illness, including: Depression & Mood Disorders Eating Disorders Anxiety Disorders Obsessive Compulsive...

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Senior Medical Tourism Development Projects

Senior medical tourism is a vibrant, growing niche market for warm climate, sustainable, new urbanism destinations. Also referred to as “third-age” in some parts of the world, senior medical tourism is a hot market with projected growth indirect correlation to the number of baby boomer medical tourism patients with the time and means to travel for long-stays...

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7 Inexpensive Ways to Establish Physician Authority and Brand

For someone to agree to fly across the country or to another part of the world to receive care from a medical tourism physician, that physician must create a solid brand impression, reputation and singularity in the mind of the consumer. In the USA, many physicians who have been working in medicine since the 1980s abdicated...

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Refocus your Medical Tourism Marketing Strategy: Think Big, Go Small

Could your medical tourism marketing strategy benefit from a refocusing of your lens? Consider this technique to narrow your approach and drive higher turnover. Let’s say you run a small clinic in a city in Europe, Asia, Latin America, or elsewhere. One that competes directly with doctors working in three nearby private hospitals and their physicians...

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Traction for your Medical Tourism Startup

Successful traction for a medical tourism startup is what qualifies the business as viable. Without traction, your business is a failure. While there are many traction channels to pursue, it difficult for most medical tourism startup business owners to determine in advance which will work to get them the traction they need to succeed. This is because there...

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