Destination Healthcare – Part III: If it’s that good, why isn’t everyone doing it?

The first two blogs in this series have generated lots of discussion.  Since Destination HealthCare™, or medical tourism as some call it, remains relatively new to most people, it’s natural for there to be important questions begging to be answered.  A friend recently asked the big picture question, “If destination healthcare is that good, why [...]

Air France Flight 447

At this hour, Air France Flight 447 from Rio to Paris is missing and presumed lost in the Atlantic.  On board were 228 souls, each of whom leave behind families, friends, neighbors and colleagues.  Not all of us will know someone on the flight, or perhaps even someone who knows someone on the flight.  We [...]

Destination Healthcare – Part II: What is It?

In part I of this series on Destination HealthCare™, we outlined the need to separate the wheat from the chaff.  
For Destination HealthCare™, the chaff is the infobabble of outdated information, an association with leisure travel (Ed. note:  Once there’s been a scalpel involved, I’m no longer a tourist.), and the confusing array of commentary by [...]

Separating Wheat from Chaff in Destination Healthcare – Part I

A recent Google search for “medical tourism” returned over 18 million results. Some were informative, some were advertisements for facilitators, countries or hospitals, some were overviews of medical tourism, and yet others were news stories about companies or individuals who were conducting pilot tests for destination healthcare projects.  Unfortunately, too many of the hits consisted of outdated [...]

Destination HealthCare™ Differences

Destination healthcare is, for many, a very new concept. The idea that someone would leave his or her home and travel to a distant part of the world for medical attention just isn’t a common part of the American experience, yet Americans are doing it in increasing numbers each year.
Let’s face it, medical care in [...]

Destination HealthCare™

I joined China Connection Global Healthcare as COO in January 2009.  With that change came the need to catch others up on my latest move and part of the conversation inevitably involved questions about Destination HealthCare™. 
Destination HealthCare™ is distinctly different from what the media often refer to as “medical tourism”.   Last week, I even saw medical travel to South [...]

What I Did on My Summer Vacation

It’s an essay topic every kid has had at some point.  If you could start to plan yours now, regardless of your age, which would you choose:
1.  I went to China for eight weeks.  I walked along the Great Wall, I visited the Forbidden City and stood in Tiananmen Square, I saw the terra cotta army in Xian, I [...]

Weight! Wait!

According to the US Centers for Disease Control, one in six American children is overweight or obese.  Surveys of college students suggest one in 5 are at least overweight. 
The health consequences, an alarming increase in frequency of Type-2 diabetes in teens, are grave.  Left unchecked, the National Institute on Aging says this could become the first American generation [...]

Shifting the Center of Care

Welcome to China Connection Global Healthcare!
We’re shifting the center of medical care.  What does that mean?  Ok, it’s a very fair question, and the answer begins with “Once upon a time..”
Once upon a time, patients were in the center of medical care.  Doctors came to you, hospitals made sure you were always attended to, employers [...]