Posted on 13 August 2009
Tags: Apollo Hospitals, India
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, celebrates medical breakthrough In Cardiac Care. Marks the successful completion of 25,000 coronary bypass procedures including 10,000 beating heart coronary bypass operations.
Apollo Hospitals Group, one of the largest cardiovascular groups in the world crossed another landmark in its contribution to heart care in India. Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, completed 10,000 coronary bypass operations [...]
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Filed under: Asia, Procedures
Posted on 28 July 2009
Tags: Samitivej Hospitals, Telemedicine, Tertiary Care, Thailand
THB 200 million spent on new facilities to become Bangkok’s emergency care center; state-of-the-art rehabilitation center opened with a new International Ward for foreign patients.
Advancing on its “Journey of Care” commitment, Samitivej Srinakarin of the Samitivej Hospital Group, invested more than THB 200 million in its medical capacity improvement with an aim to become a [...]
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Filed under: Asia, Care Facilities, Tertiary Care
Posted on 07 July 2009
Tags: JCI, Raffles Hospitalm, Singapore
Raffles Hospital joined 220 healthcare organisations in 33 countries as a Joint Commission International (JCI) accredited hospital on 13 December 2008. JCI is currently the most recognised international healthcare accreditation body and the gold standard in the setting and monitoring of global healthcare standards for hospitals.
For many of Raffles’ patients, the Raffles name was all [...]
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Filed under: Asia, Care Facilities
Posted on 29 June 2009
Tags: Rehabilitation, Samitivej Hospitals, Thailand
Samitivej Hospital provides assessment and rehabilitation for patients who suffer from muscle, bone and joint diseases, sport injuries, dizziness, emotional stress, and those who are debilitated by accident or chronic illness. The treatments include full-scale physical and occupational therapy provided by a team of physicians specialized in rehabilitation medicine, as well as by experienced professional [...]
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Filed under: Asia, Care Facilities
Posted on 26 June 2009
Tags: Apollo Hospitals, India, Video
Suneeta Reddy: ‘Medical Tourism Is a Huge Market’
Medical tourism – the phenomenon in which hospitals in emerging markets offer “sun, sand and surgery” at low prices to patients from North America and Europe – is gaining in popularity. While India lags behind countries like Thailand as a result of airport infrastructure and other bottlenecks, health [...]
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Filed under: Asia, Industry, Interview
Posted on 25 June 2009
Tags: Korea
Medical Tourism Patients Rise by 41.3%
A recent report in the Korea Times states that a total of 1,061 foreigners visited Korean hospitals in May, up 41.3 percent from the same month last year, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs said Sunday.
The government expects medical tourism to boom after the Medical Law was revised [...]
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Filed under: Asia
Posted on 22 June 2009
Tags: Industry Health
Number of medical tourism patients rise in Korea by 41.3%
A total of 1,061 foreigners visited Korean hospitals in May, up 41.3 percent from the same month last year, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs said Sunday.
The government expects medical tourism to boom after the Medical Law was revised on May [...]
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Filed under: Asia, Industry
Posted on 10 June 2009
Tags: Samitivej Hospitals, Thailand
Healthcare services are lifted to a new level with the help of digital unified communications technology which brings to customers of Samitivej, a leading private hospital in the Southeast Asian region, a new total medical care experience that is speedy, convenient and easy regardless of location.
By integrating its IT network across all departments as well [...]
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Filed under: Asia, Care Facilities