Thursday, October 13, 2011

Landmark IndUShealth Outcomes Study Sets the Bar for Corporate Medical Travel Programs

Years of documented experience demonstrate that there is far more involved in delivering outstanding medical outcomes for corporate programs than most pundits realize.

A rich variety of players in the nascent 'Medical Tourism' industry, including facilitators, insurance programs, hospitals, physicians and self-proclaimed consultants have promoted the view, for several years now, that US patients can travel to other countries, pay less for a surgical procedure, and in addition to a superior medical outcome, have a delightful travel experience.

I am here to lend my support to this assertion, and back it up with the most detailed study of medical outcomes and patient satisfaction published, to date. You can view the complete study, utilizing data from several hundred IndUShealth patients, here.

So what have we learned along the way...?

There are always predictable challenges for emerging healthcare service opportunities that don't present much of a barrier to entry. Medical Travel is one of these.

We chose to focus on the corporate market from the inception of our business, with the goal of doing a few things very well. We have achieved these outcomes by seemlessly integrating the following capabilities:

  • Identify the most expensive US surgical procedures that lend themselves to the global healthcare option program, that maximize the return of each employees travel
  • Quantify not only the typical US costs of these surgeries for the self insured corporation, but also include the impact of shorter recovery times on workmens compensation costs, etc
  • Complete a patient/program risk management assessment that far exceeds what is applied to typical US surgical admissions
  • Identify the best surgeon with the best surgical support and best medical outcomes we can find for each type of surgery.
  • Enable constant communication capabilities between patient, case managers, surgeon, hospital and the client company.
  • Consolidate every aspect of the client's medical travel program using our customized online software...nicely displayed on the indusPad.



Medical Travel is in some ways like golf...its easy for anyone to play, but only a very few can do it well.