The primary purpose of the Affordable Care Act was to expand coverage to millions of presently uninsured Americans. The ACA had a number of market reforms that have already had a significant impact on the individual insurance and employer-sponsored health industry.
This field joins nearly all disciplines of science and holds the realistic promise of repairing damaged tissue by harnessing. The market has become inundated with “stem cell treatments” and stem cell products that promise to do everything to cure disease.
Most homes have at least one products somewhere; whether it is the Colgate toothpaste, laundry detergent, and many more. The sustainability strategy for Colgate-Palmolive focuses on three areas; people, performance, and planet.
When we think about travel and tourism, we seldom think about the cruise industry and travels at sea. When it comes to medical tourism it is unthinkable for many that the sea and a ship environment could be an alternative to host mobile medical facilities.
AHP, a full service healthcare management and consulting agency bringing strategic business operations. While comprehensively describing AHP’s integrative model requires much more than a single sentence, the simplest picture that can be painted about the organization.
Domestic medical tourism is growing and recently it was WalMart Stores Inc. so what major company will be next in line? The employer may save some money and have a healthier employee, the employee will get better quality care and often times cash incentives.
From working with over 15 destinations, small marketing hits can get similar or better results than big, expensive marketing hits. As medical tourism and global healthcare continue to grow and become more sophisticated, the competition increases.
The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an archipelago of 700 islands, reefs and cays to the north in the Caribbean. The majority of the healthcare services are concentrated in the capital, tertiary services and medical personnel with specialized training.
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have been useful in opening up foreign markets to U.S. exports and to protect U.S. interests. U.S. healthcare providers or hospitals will practice or open up facilities in a foreign country.
China’s recent economic rise is unprecedented in history, there are bustling cities with over one million people living in them. With the rising wealth in China health benefits are becoming important, especially for the wealthier people in the nation.
All Canadians have access to a taxpayer-funded healthcare system that provides first-dollar (no cost-sharing) coverage. Despite the “free” service at home, tens of thousands of Canadians seek healthcare outside of Canada each year.
A healthcare organization wanting to raise the bar in its ability to attract patients from around the world can set itself apart. As the industry grows, the competitiveness of international patient programs will be distinguished by the global affiliations.
The Soviet Union healthcare system was centralized and each citizen could get full medical service absolutely free of charge. The healthcare system and universal public medical insurance ruined together with the Soviet Union.
Lowes currently has 1750 stores located in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Australia employing 250000 employees. Lowes offers two self-funded healthcare plans to employees one with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama and one with Aetna.
With over 180 attendees in the audience, this year’s membership meeting was wall to wall with standing room only. Each year the WMT & GHC holds a membership meeting on the first day of the event to discuss the changes that have gone on with the MTA.
Medical tourism has been around for centuries, but its growth as a mature industry is hastening similar to the hotel industry. Hotel systems reached maturation in the late 1970s, becoming an efficient and differential industry in management systems, marketing.
Jack, a California resident traveled 6,200 miles to Taipei Medical University Hospital (TMUH) to undergo a total knee replacement. Due to worsening conditions of his knee he decided he couldn’t take the pain, but he couldn’t afford the surgery either.
I received a call from Steve Heise of the Disney Institute in Orlando, as he heard me make a presentation on patient care. Shortly after that I went there to help them understand us, and ended up a year later thinking about all the ways we in hospitals.
Every hospital seems to have the same issues: preventable adverse events which will no longer be paid by Medicare. This article will address the errors that occur, why they occur and proven methods of Lean Six Sigma to prevent them.
Healthcare circa 2013 is a good news/bad news/good news story. The good news; healthcare work is important and will never go away. The bad news; most healthcare organizations are not on the path to thrive in the 21st century because success factors have changed.
