Not getting enough traction with your marketing and advertising efforts towards American patients? Let's talk about it. Medical, dental and wellness tourism providers targeting individuals with specific health conditions may underestimate the challenges attracting North American patients from the USA. The stakes are higher than ever before because of many U.S. healthcare...
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International Hospital Accreditation for Medical Tourism – Who Pays? HEALTH TOURISM MARKETING STRATEGY AskMariaTodd™ …for more information about what’s been mentioned in this article or something else you’d like to learn more about and… Thank You! … for being part of my professional community. Thank you for reading, watching, commenting, sharing, and spreading all...
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So… 340B changes making you nervous? Pull up a chair and pour a cup of tea or coffee. Let's talk about it. As you may have heard, new 340B guidelines announced in November 1, 2017 and became effective January 1, 2018. Since the announcement I’ve been working with hospitals on strategies to implement,...
Continue readingIs ISO 9001:2015 Certification right for your medical tourism business? AskMariaTodd
Is ISO 9001:2015 Certification right for your medical tourism business? AskMariaTodd Is ISO 9001:2015 Certification right for your medical tourism business? Earlier this week, I spent two days in my Denver office, coaching a new medical tourism startup company’s founders on business model design, infrastructure and workflows. They are planning a new medical tourism...
Continue readingMaria Todd Guides Indian Health Tourism Sector at IHTC 2017 in Bangalore
Emphasizing the need for a health tourism master plan in India, Maria Todd said, “People buy not what you sell but why you sell. To start with, we need a state strategy and a national strategy. A framework has to built for the product, be it hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centres, spas, dialysis travel, clinical...
Continue readingDestination Strategies for Health & Wellness Tourism + Smart City Urban Innovation
Destination Strategies for Health & Wellness Tourism + Smart City Urban Innovation Cities are the future. For the past ten years the number of human beings living in cities has outnumbered those in rural areas. The United Nations projects that by 2050 nearly two-thirds of the world’s projected 9.7 billion people will be urban. That should...
Continue readingGauging Long-Term Social Impact in the Health Tourism Sector: A Cutting-Edge Approach
by Maria Todd, MHA PhD CEO & Founder Center for Health Tourism Strategy at Mercury Healthcare International Local and regional for-profit, private health clinics, hospitals and other private healthcare organizations frequently measure long-term performance using any number of indicators, including, commonly, return on investment. But for public-private partnerships (PPPs) and NGOs, in contrast, there...
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by Maria K Todd, MHA PhD CEO & Founder Mercury Healthcare International As a firm that coordinates corporate health travel, we are frequently asked to coordinate checkups and medical travel for groups of executives and their companion travelers. Often, they are planning to travel anyway for a corporate meeting or event, a training course,...
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Bundling Medical Tourism Activities Into a Product Strategy
by Maria K Todd, MHA PhD CEO and Founder Mercury Healthcare International, Inc. Many medical tourism facilitators open their business without any medical knowledge or training. To me, that’s as crazy as deciding to open a piano tuning business because you can tell black keys from white keys and you know that people with...
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