Bangkok Dusit is the holding company for Royal Bangkok Hospital as well as owning a total of 17 hospitals in Thailand, two in Cambodia, and a planned super class medical destination in Abu Dhabi. The CEO of Royal was recently interviewed for ArabianBusiness.com and gave some hints about where they are headed in the competition [...]
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I think it is an old study that was done by the World Health Organization that concluded that the U.S. spends more than any other country on health care but ranks 37th in health system performance. Some interesting tidbits from that study include the fact that the U.S. has more MRI’s per capita than any [...]
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Swizterland has been a medical tourism destination for over one hundred years, catering to wealthy clients from around the world. But it seems that with the world getting smaller, and the reach of North American courts acting as tools of litigious clients, is resulting in Swiss hospitals adding new restrictions on whom they will accept [...]
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While Swiss hospitals are banning North Americans because they are too litigious to accept as patients, another perplexing case has come up. The Medical Tourism Association, a Florida, U.S. based non-profit organization, is threatening to sue the International Medical Tourism Association, a Singapore based non-profit organization, for unfair competition and trade name infringement. This is [...]
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I saw an article over at the Plastic Surgery Channel in which British doctors are spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty,doubt) about having plastic surgery abroad. The article says a recent survey of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons showed an increase in patients who needed corrective work after having plastic surgery abroad. They listed the [...]
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Another survey has been released, this one by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, a Wisconsin based research group. Their results show that 11 percent of employers now cover medical tourism involving medical treatment outside the U.S. The survey group was 400 U.S. corporate benefit managers. Site Search Tags:benefits, insurance
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Bloomberg has a good article about how many southern Californians covered by Health Net are being encouraged to have medical procedures at some of the big hospitals just across the border in Mexico. Many patients are being offered the option of no out of pocket expense if they get their surgeries done at one of [...]
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I went for my annual health screening last week. The last few years I have gone to Bumrungrad for my annual checkup. They are definitely top shelf in all respects. So this year when I chose Phyathai Hospital I knew that they would have to do very well to measure up to Bumrungrad. Phyathai is [...]
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Bumrungrad International Hospital, already a leader in the use of medical technology, has installed medical robots to automate medicine dispensing while dramatically reducing errors. Human error is common in dispensing and administering medicines in hospitals. Studies show significant numbers of deaths each year in the U.S. from incorrect medications. By introducing robotics into the process [...]
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The World Medical Health Tourism Conference will be held in Phuket September 16 to 18 this year. Organizers boast it is the largest medical tourism event of 2009. The event will be held at the Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort in Karon Beach. The conference is for professionals involved in the medical tourism and health tourism [...]
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