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Cleveland Clinic selects chief executive of overseas outpost
Cleveland Clinic has appointed Andrew Fishleder, MD, the chief executive officer of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. Fishleder currently serves as the executive dean of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi is the healthcare giant's first overseas outpost as part of its plan to extend the Clinic's brand. Under the deal with the government-owned Mubadala Development Co., Mubadala will pay for construction costs, equipping the hospital, and staff salaries. The Clinic has no capital risk, but instead will transfer its culture, its standards, and its model of healthcare with the outpost facility. Fishleder told the Cleveland Plain-Dealer his first challenge is to recruit the hundreds of board-certified physicians, nurses, and other healthcare personnel needed when the hospital opens in 2012. [Read More]
China to spend $123 billion to establish universal healthcare
China has announced plans to spend $123 billion by 2011 to establish universal healthcare for the country's 1.3 billion people. The plan aims to improve health centers in rural and remote areas as well as equalize health services between urban and rural areas.
Bai Zhongen, chairman of the economics department at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing, said that establishing universal healthcare with government-financed insurance would increase general consumer spending. The government already gives many people a small subsidy to help pay for healthcare, but more government financing for individual healthcare would strengthen the economy, Bai added in an interview with the New York Times. Bai cited a 2007 survey about the effect of rural health insurance on consumer behavior that "found that in government-sponsored health insurance areas, people are spending more." [Read More]
Medical tourism pioneer: Trust, consideration key to success
Lee Sang-jun, president of dermatology and a cosmetic surgery clinic in Seoul, Korea, is considered a pioneer of medical tourism. Sang-jun started providing medical services to foreign tourists—mainly from Japan—in 2000, before the concept of medical tourism was fully established in Korea. The clinic is now one of the leading hospitals and clinics in medical tourism, and Sang-jun has received recognition from the country's culture and tourism minister and the Korea Tourism Organization for his contribution to the promotion of the industry. Sang-jun believes the most important aspect for success in the medical tourism industry is trust. "Selecting a medical program is different from selecting a car from a brochure," he said. "As it is related to health, and even life, trust in doctors and information by word of mouth from neighbors or friends are important." [Read More]
Kansas City hospital's foreign exchange program finds continued success
A growing number of doctors, nurses, and administrators from children's hospitals in Kansas City and southern China have been making trips to each other's facilities to see what healthcare is like in another country. The exchange program started in 2003, after a Guangzhou hospital official approached a researcher at Children's Mercy Hospital with the idea to trade staff. While the collaboration was initially designed as a way to promote research collaboration, it evolved into a very broad exchange with clinical care, research, and management, said Children's Mercy officials. While in Kansas City, the Chinese doctors take part in staff meetings and discussions of cases and they observe as Children's Mercy doctors treat patients. In addition, officials from Children's Mercy are helping with the design of a new children's hospital currently under construction in Guangzhou. [Read More]
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Global Health Headlines
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More Americans likely to opt for overseas medical treatment
The Nation - January 26, 2009
Doctor offers small haven for medical tourists
JoongAng Daily - January 24, 2009
European Union wants to double cancer screenings
AP/Yahoo News - January 22, 2009
China reports 4th bird flu death in 2009
AP/Yahoo News - January 24, 2009
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Flat-World Healthcare
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Globalization is no longer an uncertain trend in the distant future. U.S. providers must refine their organizational strategy to compete. [Read More] |
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Service Line Management |
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A Spinal Shift
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As minimally invasive procedures consume a larger portion of spinal care, provider organizations have many opportunities?and challenges?in an increasingly outpatient service line. [Read More] |
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Audio Feature
What Can Your Hospital Learn from Other Industries? Diane Stover of Memorial Hospital and Health System in South Bend, IN, talks about how healthcare organizations can benefit from conducting "innovisits" with companies in other industries. [Listen Now]
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