HealthGlobe Medical Travel Blog

My thoughts from the 2010 CFO Core Concerns Conference and how your self-funded benefit plan can cut costs this year.

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We are very excited to let you know that as of July 1, Patients Without Borders LLC has a new name, HealthGlobe International LLC, a new web address: www.myhealthglobe.com and is introducing a brand new look and feel on the web. Please visit the new site and let us know what you think.
Our original name [...]

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Here is an interesting link in this month’s Employee Benefit Adviser: http://eba.benefitnews.com/news/medical-tourism-prepped-for-take-off-but-still-grounded-2683657-1.html. The main reason why it’s interesting is because as far as I can tell, Medical Travel benefits offered by employers is very much taking off.
Just two weeks ago, HealthGlobe launched a self-funded “Association Plan” in collaboration with UMR, a wholly-owned subsidiary of United [...]

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There is so much public discourse about health care that it is difficult to take it all in. What’s more, there are so many poorly-understood terms that just get thrown around all the time it is no wonder that most of the general public find the whole topic very hard to understand. How does our [...]

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That happens to be the slogan for Colombia – it used to be that Colombia was synonymous with drugs and kidnappings, and for some people this is still what they think of when they imagine this beautiful country. But today, this couldn’t be further from the truth. For the last 8 years the President of [...]

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At the beginning of April I blogged about gastric bypass – in particular, three specific blogs that were written by people who have had their own experiences with gastric bypass. As we reach the end of the month I thought I would get you up to speed with what is going on in those blogs [...]

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A couple of completely unrelated things happened to me yesterday that really got me thinking about how I have turned into such a proponent of Medical Travel. Here they are:

I was speaking to a new person we are bringing on to support our corporate sales activities. She has been in the health care industry for [...]

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This morning, as I sat scrolling through articles to post on HealthGlobe various Facebook and web pages, I came across this – Test Tube Boys May Inherit Fertility Problems . I often come across such articles. They are factual and filled with important theories and information, but they are also frightening. I found myself torn. [...]

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After a very strange weather week we wake up to sunshine!! Jackie and I are both excited because we have toured the hospital, met with the doctors and today are going to explore a little bit of downtown Tijuana. Although it still isn’t warm enough for summer clothes, we don our sandals, and me with [...]

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The Same 6 Questions
Bill Cook
International Patient Coordinator
Hospital Clinica Biblica
What does a typical day look like for you?
I lurch out of bed about 6:00 am and then go for a 45 minute brisk walk (I find this is the best time to prepare myself mentally for the workday ahead). Then I take a shower, make [...]

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