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• Hospitals
• Medical insurance
• Medical software
• Health equipments
CLASSIFICATION OF HOSPITALS
1) On the basis of the OBJECTIVE there are three types:
I. PRODUCT
♦ Emergency
♦ Out-Patient
♦ In-Patient
♦ Intensive Care
♦ Operation
Levels of Service:
CORE PRODUCT
EXPECTED PRODUCT
AUGMENTED PRODUCT
• Ambience.
• Central Air-conditioning.
• Automation equipments(X-Ray Scanners, Printers,
Photo Scanners, etc)
II. PRICE
III. PLACE
In hospitals, distribution of Medicare services plays a crucial
role. This focuses on the instrumentality of almost all who are
found involved in making services available to the ultimate users.
In case of hospitals the location of hospital plays a very important
role. The kind of services a hospital is rendering is also very
important for determining the location of the hospital.
Eg. Tata memorial hospital specializes in cancer treatment and is
located at a centre place unlike other normal hospitals, which you
can find all over other places.
IV. PROMOTION
Customers need to be made aware of the existence of the
service provided. Promotion includes advertising, sales promotion,
personal selling & publicity.
Hospitals generally do not undertake aggressive promotion;
they rely a lot on a favorable word of mouth. To increase the
clientele, a hospital may continuously introduce different health
services. Hospitals conduct camps in rural areas to give medical
check ups at a reasonable price so that they approach the hospitals
in the future. They generally advertise in the health & fitness
magazines. As hospitals spend millions of rupees in technology
and infrastructure, it becomes necessary, that they attract patients
and generate funds. In order, to do the same, the hospitals follow
various marketing and brand building exercises. Some of them are
listed below:
VI. PROCESS