Medical tourism startup VoyagerMed prepares to launch telehealth
Two-year-old VoyagerMed is preparing to launch a telehealth initiative aims to connect more Chinese patients to U.S. physicians.
MORE Health’s SE Asia expansion to support second opinion service
Last year, it opened offices in 2015 in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. It also established a presence in Taiwan and Macau.
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When Investment Rhymes with Canada
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
Healthtour sets out to find the best healthcare abroad
Healthtour.com aims at finding the best healthcare services for users when they travel abroad through bundled care, fair prices and local support.
Health IT deals underscore investor interest in medical tourism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jagtC_I-T1A The past few weeks have seen a couple of interesting developments on the medical tourism front with entrepreneurs seeking to claim a specific niche within this area. Asia has been an area of interest but not just as a destination for connecting people with cheaper plastic surgery in Thailand. Startups are positioning themselves to […]
Time for a staycation? Some American medical tourists may need only to hop county or state lines
The NYTimes points toward areas of the United States where surgeries may be much cheaper for some patients, in part due to programs trying to drive down costs, in a comment-driven follow-up to the newspaper’s article on medical tourism and the medical device industry. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) program is the exemplar […]
NYTimes reminds us why most don’t care about the medical device tax
In a rough U.S. economy, the NYTimes showed why medical tourism isn’t crazy: it can be just as efficient as American healthcare and jaw-droppingly cheaper–much in thanks to the device industry. A recent New York Times post makes a case for greed on the part of device makers, particularly the ones that make joint replacements. […]
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