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What is the role Beijing BJMTC will take within the medical tourism industry?
To date,IRIS TOUR Beijing medical Tourism Service Consulting Co.Ltd.(BJMTC) has been a medical destination for patients from areas in East Asia where premium medical care is unavailable, such as eastern Russia, Mongolia, Khazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, some South Asian countries and elsewhere in the region. Additionally, the majority of our patients continue to come from Beijing’s expatriate community, representing over 110 different countries and living, working or studying in China for short or more permanent stays.
We often provide medical services consulting for visiting U.S. delegations such as the White House and U.S. government whenever American presidents come to China. We are also the designated medical facility for the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, National Football League, international television stations, Hollywood movie productions teams, several petroleum companies and a host of other Western organizations when they visit, perform or carry out long-term projects in China. BJMTC has a membership database that includes direct agreements with hundreds of multinational corporations, as well as partners like International SOS and dozens of the world’s top insurance companies like BUPA, Blue Cross, Cigna and Aetna, with which we have direct billing arrangements.
One of the biggest concerns of expatriates coming to China is the availability of quality healthcare. With our JCI accreditation, they are given considerable piece of mind. BJMTC is often the first point of contact for many embassies and multinational companies once they determine our service level, and JCI accreditation speeds this assessment process. We also see benefits when working with international insurance companies that quickly recognize the effort we put into receiving such accreditation.
Government support is an essential part of a destination’s success in offering their services to international patients. How is the Chinese Government reacting toward medical tourism and BJMTC involvement in medical tourism?
The Chinese healthcare scene is changing rapidly this year as the Chinese Government is undergoing a massive three-year healthcare reform process, committing hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars to improving healthcare throughout the farthest reaches of the country. Getting basic healthcare services to 1.3 billion people is the goal. It is not an easy task to anticipate the growth pattern of the medical tourism industry in China for the following reasons: China’s State Council (or cabinet) has just officially encouraged the development of private healthcare, the government is improving the social healthcare system, and BJMTC is being used as model for which private healthcare facilities can emulate.
We do recognize that several local governments, such as the Shanghai city government, are very keen on promoting medical tourism on a grand scale. While Beijing BJMTC continues to consider all possibilities in terms of the latest medical service offerings for patients, our main focus is on developing the very best patient-centered, premium-quality care hospitals and facilities to all of our patients as a whole. This alone helps naturally to draw people in Asia to us as they seek the level of trust, care and expertise we bring in treating them.
What procedures are most sought after by patients who travel to you for treatment?
Many tourists and travelers come to us instead of leaving the country. Patients also look to us for treating Trauma and difficult Orthopedic maladies. In addition, our top-notch Primary Care is a very popular service among many Asian executives, seeking preventative, wellness treatment and diagnostics through our thorough Executive Health Check-Ups. Additionally, our Pediatric team is renowned throughout the region. We also receive a large number of international cases, as parents wish to have our experienced physicians treat their children.
Are you offering the same services to Chinese residents and medical tourists? If not, how is it different?
Yes, no matter where they are from, all our patients are treated with the same level of quality, personalized care. We have excelled at understanding the cultural sensitivities of patients from different backgrounds. We also offer a number of personalized services to our foreign patients to facilitate their stay at our hospital, such as helping them extend visas, arrange travel and receive translations.
Which nationalities are you seeing the most? Any particular reasons for that?
In terms of medical tourists, the answers are Russian, Kazakhstani, Australia,Germany,Canadian,American etc.
In terms of expatriates, American, Canadian, British, Australian, and German patients make up a significant portion of our patient base. However, we monthly have patients from places like Zambia, Fiji, Bulgaria and over 100 other countries.
What is the difference between hospital in China and a hospital in the U.S.?
There is very little difference in terms of management and standard practices in many of the best hospitals in the U.S. However, there are tremendous differences in terms of the level of care we can afford to give patients by capitalizing on the economic advantages of a place like China. As one of the top premium care facilities in the world, hospitals in China actually offer a standard of patient care that is rarely found in hospitals in most U.S. cities, with an inpatient nurse to patient ratio of 1 to 2 at times. Our nurses, all English-speaking, are mostly trained abroad in places like Australia, Singapore and Canada, and then choose to come back to China to practice. Our patient services staff members are at patients’ beck-and-call, and our medical staff is deeply experienced in satisfying patients and has the very best bedside manner for people from 110 different countries and cultures.
One thing China has is people, and we take advantage of this for the benefit of our patients. This means that our Chinese doctors have had to go through rigorous training and beat out competition to get to the very highest levels of Chinese medicine. This is before they then chose to practice with us. More and more international physicians are willing to come to China. We can afford to have much more staff, and our arrangement with the medical products division of our company ensures we have top level equipment.
Our prices, therefore, can still come in at the 70th percentile of the top 100 U.S. hospital pricing, while in most cases offering a much more personalized and higher level of service.
What are your goals for the future regarding medical tourism?
The main goal is to continue improving our quality and personalized care while maintaining a value in the prices offered at other facilities throughout the world, making it more appealing to international patients to seek treatment in China. We also are looking carefully at developing offerings in areas such as stem cell research, functional medicine, wellness, fertilization, genomics and other areas that are increasingly sought after by people across the region and in the West. We see great potential for regional medical tourism in fields. Finally, we are being proactive in outbound tourism; emergency medicine, wellness and preventative check-ups and other premium services, as they are increasingly sought after by Chinese traveling abroad.
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