Veoivis Inside Business Video clip
I just watched the following video…
These are some great examples of how medical tourism can work well.
It’s great to see insurance companies evolving and including global options in their health plans.
Also of note, is that Veiovis has recently added New Zealand to its network.
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Source: The Medical Traveller
What will make Medical Tourism grow?
Medical tourism will flourish when the destination country matches the home country in terms of fit and feel, but over delivers in terms of service and patient experience, all at a significant cost reduction to the home country.
Hence destinations that share cultural similarity to the USA, speak English as the first language, are safe and politically stable, with a recognized history of providing high quality health care that is also cost efficient, will be the long term winners.
Medical tourism is disruptive technology and hence is a long term play. It is also a reasonably complex offer with the buying decision needing to be aligned to a selling cycle, both of which are unique compared to the traditional health care model.
Hence destination countries and enablers based in the USA need to build credibility and confidence in the industry and at all costs avoid trying to make a quick buck. A low cost strategy as being the sole differentiator vs the US health care system may being appealing to some of the market. However the offer needs to be far more than that.
From what the US and Canadian patients who come to New Zealand comment; excellent service, in a world class health care system which puts the patient first (patient centric) at an affordable price (and not a Hobbit or Ork in sight) certainly is different to what they usually experience when accessing health care.
Now that has universal appeal.
Source: The Medical Traveller
Lifeline to Patients With TB
The last of the USA’s original tuberculosis sanitariums sits, improbably, just off Interstate 95, near a Dunkin’ Donuts and a Motel 6, and just behind fields of children playing soccer. The fading signs out front simply say A.G. Holley State Hospital. There is nothing to suggest that one of history’s greatest killers lurks inside.
Florida lawmakers [...]
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Costa Rica Shuts Down Stem Cell Medical Tourism Destination
Costa Rica’s Health Ministry has shut down the ICM Clinic (aka Cell Medicine), an enterprise that has served as a popular medical tourism site and treated more than 400 non-Costa Rican patients with stem cells since it opened in 2006.
According to Reuters, the Health Ministry’s Research Council chief, Dr. Ileana Herrera, made the decision [...]
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Demand for Stem Cells Growing Fast, Many Turn to Medical Tourism
You can’t keep a good thing down. When the US restricted stem cell research in the early part of the century that research didn’t die, it emigrated. All over the world, scientists continued to explore the efficacies of embryonic and adult stem cells with astonishing results.
Now, as the public becomes increasingly aware of these [...]
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