International patient department training is part of continuous quality improvement strategy, not just a single intensive training session at the very beginning. Begin by developing a “Creative Treatment” A Treatment is NOT a script or a strategy. It is the step just before a script or strategy, a kind of blueprint for writing a script, developing...
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International patient department training is part of continuous quality improvement strategy, not just a single intensive training session at the very beginning. Begin by developing a “Creative Treatment” A Treatment is NOT a script or a strategy. It is the step just before a script or strategy, a kind of blueprint for writing a script, developing...
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Disruptive marketing strategies for medical tourism are built around differentiation that provides at least three long term sustainable competitive advantages. Long term sustainable competitive advantages in medical tourism put a destination (and its premium providers) on the map, gain visibility, claim top of the mind dominance in specialty, and capture premium market share. Celebrate unique...
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Try these five little changes to help you restructure your strategy to transform medical tourism patient enquiries to conversions Around the world, I consult to medical tourism providers in every stage of business development. Frequently, they tell me that their most frustrating pain point is the frustration and uncertainty about how to desgin a winning medical tourism patient sales cycle...
Continue readingMedical Tourism Facilitators: What’s Your USP?
The most successful medical tourism facilitator businesses are based on being unique in the marketplace somehow. I’ve owned a medical tourism facilitator business, so I know exactly how difficult that is to offer something that nobody else does. But by doing that, you make your competition irrelevant. In 2009, I began the documentation process to...
Continue readingMercury Advisory Group Awarded Medical Tourism Fam Tour Coordination Project for Greece
The medical tourism fam tour in Greece will help referral partners and corporate buyers open a new medical tourism destination for their clients, insureds and employees Qualified medical tourism facilitators, tour operators, and travel agents are invited to apply to participate in a fully-hosted introductory trade mission to ignite business development and increase medical...
Continue readingDr. Maria K. Todd Presents on Why Medical Tourism Facilitators Fail
Editor’s Note: Maria Todd, the author of The Medical Tourism Facilitator’s Handbook (2011 CRC | Productivity Press) and 10 other healthcare business administration professional books was recently asked to present a short session at an international medical tourism conference on the topic of ‘Why So Many Medical Tourism Facilitators Fail.’ Dr. Todd examined the phenomenon and compiled her impressions about...
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