Medical Tourism - Curtis Schroeder, CEO Bumrungrad International
Video: Ruben Toral sits down with Curtis Schroeder, CEO Bumrungrad International, a Bangkok Thailand hospital that has been around for 28 years and was one of the early movers in medical tourism.
Medical Tourism: Parkway Health, Singapore
Dan Snyder, Group Executive Vice President and Group Chief Operating Officer of Parkway Health, the leading hospital group in Asia, spoke at the Health Care Globalization Summit.
Overview of Medical Tourism
Video: Medical Tourism is like a Toyota Corolla - a new approach to health care, an innovative product with mass market appeal, valued for high quality affordable pricing, and delivered through a global seamless network. That is the promise of medical tourism, a quality service that everyone can access globally at an affordable price.
Reporting AIDS - C2EA: Campaign to End AIDS
VIDEO: In response to the lack of attention on HIV/AIDS issues during the 2004 Presidential election, a group of concerned HIV/AIDS leaders formed The Campaign to End Aids to ignite a political conversation about ending the AIDS epidemic
Medical Tourism: Evaluating International Markets
Medical tourism has become a booming global industry. As health care costs fly high in the United States, some patients are taking their medical business across borders and into the hospitals of Mexico, Thailand, Singapore, India, and other countries where the cost of surgery and other procedures is lower. Many of the hospitals in these […]
UK Patient Focused Panel Discussion: How to Reach the Female Consumer?
In this UK Building Better Businesses in Healthcare panel
How to reach the female consumer? She is more assertive, she intends to make her own choices, and she actively seeks out information prior to any consultation with a healthcare practitioner, and when she goes into the GPs office, she wants an active and equal dialogue […]
Center For Disease Control Issues Pandemic Guidelines
Seven new cases of the H5N1 — or Avian Flu — virus occurred over the past two weeks killing five, Mike Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, revealed Thursday.
Just because the Avian Flu no longer generates the media buzz it once did does not make the danger of an outbreak any […]
Unite for Sight Worldwide
Unite For Sight® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. At Unite for Sight’s Third Annual International Health Conference at Yale University in April 2006, Unite For Sight partner ophthalmologists Dr. James Clarke (Accra, Ghana), Dr. T. Senthil (Chennai, India), and Dr. Seth Wanye (Tamale, […]
Modern Healthcare - Technological Dream or Economic Nightmare?
Professor Karol Sikora, from Cancer Partners UK, recently spoke at the Building Better Businesses in Healthcare Conference in London. His presentation was titled: Modern Healthcare - Technological Dream or Economic Nightmare? Professor Sikora talks about the past, present and future of technology and its role in the UK health care system.
The conference was organized by […]
Interview: Tam McDonald, Harley Street
Tam McDonald, CEO of Harley Street, provides the outsiders perspective on the US health care system. In the UK, which is a single-payor system, solutions to health care are determined centrally, by the government. While the UK spends half what we spend as a function of gross domestic product, the outcomes are higher. But there […]
