A complete guide for the thoroughly modern healthcare marketer. Written for the marketer in the field using everyday language and scenarios that will help all members of the marketing department do their jobs better, meet the challenges of accountability, and spend marketing dollars wisely, The Complete Guide to Hospital Marketing, Second Edition looks at the complex field of healthcare marketing in a straightforward but engaging way with information, tips, and strategies that facilities of all sizes, types, and budgets can use right away This unique guide also comes with a CD-ROM containing ready-to-use customizable forms, checklists, and other tools and examples that will help marketers promote quality, create a buzz, and face challenges within an organization, including internal marketing.
Written specially for marketers just starting out in the healthcare industry, this comprehensive resource offers a variety of practical lessons that touch upon many of the key elements and unique challenges you'll face. [..] It is an essential primer for hospital marketing professionals [Ed.]
This groundbreaking volume explores every facet of marketing for hospitals. Experienced practitioners and marketing educators show you how to improve your current program with tips and insights that would normally take years to acquire!
Is Marketing a bad word in healthcare? I don't think so. Marketing has a Noble Responsibility! Governments spend billions of dollars on marketing health awareness to safeguard people against deadly diseases. It’s all about the rightful use of marketing that matters. why do they depend on marketing? Because they know only through the rightful use of marketing, these life-saving messages can reach the masses in no time and save them. If one can dig deeper and understand, it is not marketing, which is bad but human greed. The real nature of marketing is pure - it has all the essentials in making good, reach people faster. Then, where have we gone wrong - its the approach that matters. Hospitals using retail formats in marketing communication is not a welcome move; in fact, it degrades their brand when people start observing discounts, camps & master health checkups as baits, they lose faith in the hospital. Hospital Marketing is not to create hype but to genuinely help people. No one lives in this world without needing healthcare, but what has to be understood is how you build trust with your marketing communication so that they come to you when they are in need. This book aims to throw light on the true nature of hospital marketing, which is not revealed to hospital owners/ administrators/ marketers before in this format.
For today’s health care professional, clinical expertise is not enough—one has to know the market. Even when a facility has its own marketing department, practitioners are regularly called on for their input. Health Services Marketing: A Practitioner’s Guide clearly and succinctly explains the range of marketing activities and techniques, from promotions to pricing, so any health professional can learn to navigate this bewildering but increasingly important aspect of healthcare. Richard Thomas’ step-by-step guide for developing a marketing plan and carrying out a successful campaign offers a hands-on approach to proven methods for staying a step ahead of the healthcare marketing game: The health industry as seen from the marketing perspective. Healthcare products, and the consumers who need them. What marketing can (and can’t) do for a medical practice. Demographics and beyond: how social marketing works. Where your marketing dollar goes: staying on budget. Market positioning: knowing the competition, building the strategy. Evaluating a marketing plan’s effectiveness. Plus dozens of forms, checklists, and questionnaires to simplify the process. Useful to practitioners and administrators alike, and equally suited to the for-profit as to the non-profit organization, Health Services Marketing gives the reader valuable tools to reach out to consumers and build lasting relationships.
"Winning the health care race : Strategies for hospital marketing excellence in India " written by Dilly Borhas,provides a comprehensive guide on hospital marketing in the Indian context. The book delves in to various marketing tools and strategies that can help hospitals stay ahead in the competitive healthcare industry in India. The author has shared practical insights ,case studies, and examples to explain how hospitals can effectively market their services to attract and retain patients .This book serves as a valuable resource for hospital administrators, marketing professionals, and anyone interested in understanding the nuances of hospital marketing in India.
Essentials of Health Care Marketing, Fourth Edition will provide your students with a foundational knowledge of the principles of marketing and their particular application in health care. Moreover, the text offers a perspective on how these principles must shift in response to the changing environmental forces that are unique to this market.
Marketing in Healthcare-Related Industries captures the concepts and complexities of marketing healthcare in today’s environment. The book provides detailed conceptual and practical insights that will be of great benefit to healthcare scholars and practitioners. Topics on healthcare marketing have been carefully selected to provide wide coverage and are illustrated by mini-cases with a highly practical marketing tool kit for healthcare managers included. The healthcare sector in the 21st century face a multiplicity of challenges, which include changing disease patterns, more technology-driven health interventions, a more assertive and quality conscious clientele, as well as a rapidly growing for-profit segment of the industry. This places more responsibilities on healthcare service providers in both the public and private sectors, to deliver value-for-money services at competitive costs. To respond to the changing business environment, a carefully crafted marketing approach is needed by all players in the industry to create value and sustain the confidence of clientele and stakeholders. Praise for Marketing in Healthcare-Related Industries: "Marketing in Healthcare-Related Industries is a timely book as the healthcare industry grows more customer-focused and faces increasing pressure to deliver high-quality service at more affordable costs. This book will serve as a roadmap for practitioners as it synthesizes insights from many marketing researchers into useful and actionable advice. It should also help students easily master the application of marketing principles to the healthcare industry with tools like review questions at the end of each chapter and mini-cases to apply marketing concepts." ~ Dr. Bruce A. Huhmann, Department Chair and Professor of Marketing, Virginia Commonwealth University "Marketing In Healthcare-related Industries could not have come at a better time. Just as the epidemiological and demographic transitions have changed the cycle of planning, resource allocation, delivering, monitoring and evaluating healthcare (especially in developing countries), shrinking domestic and donor resources for health, and ambitious agendas like the Universal Health Coverage 2030 Agenda, make it imperative that healthcare providers do more with less. This book provides a clear road map to a MARKETING TRANSITION, which links healthcare and marketing in a way hitherto not so clearly outlined. The Toolkit will be a valuable tool for undergraduate and graduate students in healthcare provision, as well as health practitioners who have traditionally not been trained in this area. I commend it highly as a must-read book in this area." ~ Dr. Victor Asare Bampoe - Former Deputy Minister of Health, Ghana and currently Director & Coordinator, Global Financing & Technical Support, Joint United Nation Programme on HIV&AIDS, Geneva "A truly remarkable scholarly work of our time. An easy-to-read and insightful book that captivates the reader, whether practitioner or student." ~ Dr. Abigail Mensah, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana "This book is well-written, easy-to-understand, and very up-to-date in its approach to marketing in healthcare-related industries. It is useful for undergraduate and graduate students as well as healthcare practitioners." ~ Dr. Gouher Ahmed, Professor of Strategic Leadership & International Business, Skyline University College, UAE
