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MSNBC: Foreign-trained docs as good as U.S. physicians

August 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · medical travel

Take a look at this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38537956/ns/health-health_care/.
This says a lot about the potential for medical travel. First of all, it says that foreign doctors trained in their home countries actually produce better results than American-trained doctors. But that headline would likely have been too caustic.
What does that mean? Well, it means that those doctors learned [...]

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What do Medical Tourism and eBay have in common?

July 25th, 2010 · No Comments · medical travel

Nearly everyone who uses the internet has looked at items on eBay and many people have either bought or sold something. So what does that have to do with Medical Tourism?
When you get right down to it, I am a business strategist. It pervades my thinking when I am working at HealthGlobe and when I [...]

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Reduce Year-Over-Year Health Care Costs with HealthGlobe

July 13th, 2010 · No Comments · medical travel

HealthGlobe Co-Founder Jeff Carter describes the frustration of trend increases in employer health care and how HealthGlobe helped reduce one corporate client reduce their total costs by $1M year over year in 2010.

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Korea – A Medical Travel Hotspot

June 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Employer Sponsored Health Plans, Korea

As the Medical Travel industry has matured over the past several years, many experts agree that we are on the cusp of a large scale adoption of medical travel by corporations in the form of modified or expanded employee benefit options. HealthGlobe has worked closely with KHIDI to develop several offerings that create an easy way to integrate a Korea Medical Travel Benefit Option into any ERISA-based self-funded group health plan.

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