HIMSS is rapidly approaching and I am excited to be presenting:
The Best Exotic Marigold Hospital: Learning digital lessons from the hospitality industry to personalize the healthcare experience on Monday February 20, 2017 — 01:30 PM EST – 02:30 PM EST in the Chapin Theatre (W320) – Session ID:
43
The Friction of Travel
As part of my role I travel a lot and I have watched the travel experience change over the last several years. Remember the time when you actually visited the check-in desk before proceeding to the gate to get your boarding pass?
I remember that in the early days I still wanted to go to the check in desk but quickly discovered that the ability to check in at home the night before made my life easier and reduced the friction of travel. The same is happening in the hospitality industry and I am excited to be presenting with Nathalie Corredor, SVP Startegy for Hilton Worldwide
The Hilton group have invested a huge amount of effort in refining their Digital Experience you can do everything from make a reservation, choose her room, get your digital key access once again decreasing the friction of travel. This increases the customer satisfaction and improves the hotel staff productivity so instead of spending time checking in guests and creating key cards, the staff can spend their time making sure guests feel welcome and taking care of their individual requests and needs. By removing people from the administrative process, the hotel was able to make the guest experience more welcoming and friendly.
Healthcare environments can learn some important lessons from the hospitality industry, as well as retail and travel websites. By taking service staff out of tasks that are more efficiently done by computers, these industries are able to personalize the customer experience, improve accuracy of data entry and cut their costs.
For companies in the hospitality, retail and travel industries, efficiency, accuracy and cost control is directly related to their ability to compete successfully for customers. But just as important is the customer experience. These industries have learned that a customer irritated by the friction in the buying/checking in process is a customer who will seek out other options in the future. While some customers will put up with a poor experience to cut costs if they must, as soon as those customers find an affordable option that is less irritating, they are gone. And, importantly, companies are no longer being compared just to the competition in their own market — now their competition is any optimal experience from any industry. If our online interaction with Amazon is friction-free, then we want and expect the same experience from everyone else.
You can read more here on the Beckers Health IT and CIO Site (Beckers – The Best Exotic Marigold Hospital – Nick van Terheyden)
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