The spread of internet has bestowed upon us the most convenient, viable and a cost-efficient way of communicating with others, irrespective of their geographical locations. For starters, Webinars refers to interactive conferences and online workshops made possible by Internet technologies, particularly on TCP/IP connections. It facilitates real-time point-to-point communications as well as multicast communications from one sender to many receivers. The organizers can stream data in form of text-based messages, voice and video chat to be shared simultaneously, across geographically dispersed locations. No wonder, webinars have emerged as the second most effective method of content marketing. Considering the immense potential of webinars, the medical tourism stakeholders can them to promote medical tourism big time.
The multifarious advantages of webinars:
The webinars have a bevy of benefits over conventional media formats in promoting medical and wellness tourism. Putting it in simple words; the webinars are a sure-fire recipe for long-term business success of the medical tourism stake holders. The most prominent salient features of webinars find a mention below.
- Education: It is an open secret that webinars incorporate great educational value; hence, many reputable and illustrious medical tourism associations like MTA and IMWTA are exploiting it to the benefit of their esteemed members. Through online pedagogy, they are imparting insight into the vital concepts related to medical tourism. Their webinars are comprehensive enough to cater to the myriads of business and education needs of the members. It is not only indispensible for the novices but also offers something to even the most seasoned of the veterans by adding depth to their already acquired knowledge.
- Interact with who’s who of medical tourism: The webinars offers once in lifetime opportunity to participants to interact with luminaries with splendid record of accomplishments in the field. You can feel free to put forward your apprehensions and inhibitions that you may come across more often than not. The illustrious panel members would be more than willing to share their experience and treasure trove of knowledge with you enabling you to have a better perspective of the said field.
- Highly interactive: The webinars are highly interactive and good enough to dispel the general perception that webinars are boring and sheer wastage of time. In most cases, the webinars are thoughtfully designed and intended at engaging the participant through the use of video, audio, slides and plethora of other interactive options. This would not only rev up your learning experience but also make it far more interesting.
- Viable platform for dialogue among multi stake holders: One of the most striking features of our webinar is that it offers a viable platform for all medical tourism stake holders to come and have a fruitful dialogue. It would go a long way in building trust among the stake holders and pave way for developing the much needed cooperation among them. No wonder, the entire process would contribute towards the cause of medical tourism big time.
- Relevant topics: The webinars extensively covers wide assortment of topics related to medical tourism. Right from the latest breakthroughs in the medical tourism segment to finding ways to utilize them to the benefit of stake holders, you can access it all. The issues that the webinars cover include but not limited to the following:
o International Patient Services
o International Patient Marketing
o Facilitation of International Patients
o Patient – Cultural Sensitivity
o Legal and Compliance Issues
o Developing International Insurance Company Relationships
o Expatriate Patient Development
o Healthcare Cluster Training
o Patient Safety & Quality
As, you can view them at your convenience,the webinars eliminate the hassles involved in the conventional seminars. At us, you are relieved from shelling out money on travel or accommodation incurred in traditional seminars. By considerably reducing travel for both presenters and participants, the webinars are an environmentally friendly option for all stake holders involved in medical tourism. One of the most remarkable features of webinar is that one can avail the re-broadcast of the live webinars at his/her convenience. You can access on-demand versions of the webinars intended at sharing knowledge through optimum utilization of interesting content. A study by InTouch Inc. revealed that about 300% to 500% more people watch a recorded webinar than attend a live one. It is much like creating an invaluable asset, which can be used repeatedly and save you money and time. More for flexibility; most webinars can be viewed on a PC, Mac, tablet or smartphone.
