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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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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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....
Continue readingMental 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...
Continue readingSenior 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...
Continue reading7 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...
Continue readingRefocus 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...
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...
Continue readingOrganizing Medical Tourism Hospital Fam Tours for Employers
Be sure to hit all the touch points that self-funded employer representatives want to see when they come for a medical tourism familiarization (fam) tour at your location. Employer-sponsored self-funded health benefit plans are increasing in number like never before. Many are investigating health travel (not “medical tourism”) as an option for their workforce to access medically necessary...
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