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Continue readingData Blocking and its Effect on Physician Integration and Alignment
CMS Administrator Seema Verma has warned that data blocking will not be tolerated. Healthcare data can be exchanged, but software and applications providers have been accused of hoarding it because for many, their business model has been designed on deriving profits from data hoarding. But if Seema Verma’s admonitions are any indication, them days...
Continue readingIs ISO 9001:2015 Certification right for your medical tourism business? AskMariaTodd
Is ISO 9001:2015 Certification right for your medical tourism business? AskMariaTodd Is ISO 9001:2015 Certification right for your medical tourism business? Earlier this week, I spent two days in my Denver office, coaching a new medical tourism startup company’s founders on business model design, infrastructure and workflows. They are planning a new medical tourism...
Continue readingThe Importance of Healthcare Provider Credentialing in Health Tourism
When a health tourism coordinator represents that their provider network selection process involves due diligence but doesn’t conduct primary source verification of credentials, training and experience, I view that as false advertising which is illegal in most jurisdictions. 1 Professional health and wellness services coordinators and facilitators owe a...
Continue readingPoint of View: The Intersection of Medical Tourism and the Internet of Things (IoT)
By Maria K Todd, MHA PhD CEO & Founder Mercury Healthcare International, Inc. Estimates about the potential of connected devices by the year 2020 range from 26 billion (Gartner) to 75 billion (Morgan Stanley). The Internet of Things (IoT) will give rise to new and disruptive medical tourism industry transformations and business outcomes....
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Red Teaming Your Medical Tourism Operational Design
Defined loosely in Red Teaming Journal, red teaming is the practice of viewing a problem from an adversary or competitor’s perspective. The goal of most red teams is to enhance decision making, either by specifying the adversary’s preferences and strategies or by simply acting as a devil’s advocate. The entire point of the Red...
Continue readingMedical Tourism Provider Safety & Quality Criteria: Mobility programs
In my visits to healthcare facilities interested in medical tourism startup, I use several proprietary checklists to objectively assess a provider’s readiness and propensity for success with medical tourism. This is one reason why we don’t take seriously any emails we receive from hospitals or medical tourism agencies (in the USA or abroad) that say,...
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