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Training New Medical Device Sales Reps – Getting it Right

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Training new medical device sales rep. When designing a training curriculum for new medical device sales people , clinical knowledge is first and foremost. Adding traditional sales skills training also is important, but insufficient for sales success. New medical device sales people need something more from sales training.

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5th issue impacting medical sales in 2013 – customer satisfaction

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The new payment rate combines hospitals’ patient-satisfaction scores with a measure of whether hospitals follow a set of procedural metrics (e.g., Some hospitals require nurses to call patients after they’re discharged to remind them about follow-up appointments and to answer medication questions. ©2012 Sales Horizons, LLC.

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Medical device sales – selling with clinical data

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This requires a well-crafted and well-rehearsed up-front attention grabber. problem it’s looking at, the point it’s trying to prove), a quick summary of the findings, and follow up with the author’s recommendations (e.g., Not sharing study findings in a sequence that is easy for docs to process. ©2012 Sales Horizons, LLC.

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Medical sales – ask for commitments if you want to win

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Simply, unless you can get any person – including physicians – to make a commitment it’s unlikely they will follow up and take any action. If you found this post helpful, you might want to join the conversation and subscribe to the Sales Training Connection. That is not how to win in a competitive sale.

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Four hospital-physician issues impacting medical sales in 2013

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Payers also are consolidating with other health care plans – increasingly seeking to own and operate providers. Studies have found that once one a hospital in an area begins to acquire physician practices, others follow out of concern that referrals from independent physicians will dry up. ©2012 Sales Horizons, LLC.

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Selling to hospital information technology departments

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Because of the transformational changes in the buying environment selling to hospitals is a much-discussed topic – including in our blog the Sales Training Connection. So, are there some best practices you might follow? Selling IT to Hospitals. One area receiving increased interest is the continued growth of information technology.

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Medical sales – impact of hospital mergers and acquisitions on sales strategy

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billion, 2011 followed pace – and it looks like there will be even more M&A activity in 2012 as health care reforms kick in, certainty in the health care landscape increases, the economy picks up, and investors seek bargains. If you are going to sell as a team, you need to train as a team.