Starhealth and Medical Tourism

Procedures

Star Health Trials

To achieve our mission the starting point is the patient We plan to achieve our mission through developing a robust pipeline, which will have multiple product platforms, designed to meet the needs of end-2-end users such as patients, healthcare payers and medical practitioners.

Cancer Research Programs

The Center for Global Health engages in a variety of research programs and initiatives throughout the world. Programs build on the strategic priorities of CGH through initiatives that promote knowledge sharing in cancer research and cancer control, strengthen capacity through training, and develop research networks to facilitate collaboration and increase efforts to reduce the global burden of cancer. In addition, CGH develops, initiatives, and collaborates with other NCI divisions, NCI-Designated Cancer Centers, and countries to support cancer control planning, encourage capacity building, and support cancer research and research networks.

Star health customer's faq’s

What is the purpose of SHMTI?

The Star Health And Medical Tourim Index, including its scale and validation, as a go to was a method of explaining how to measure and manage the medical tourism destination brand positioning for each destination.

What is the goal of the SHMTI?

The main goal is to explain and elaborate more on the results of the Star Health And Medical Tourim Index for each specific destination, in order to discover the strengths, weaknesses, and areas of opportunity that will help develop the correct strategy that drives incremental business. In the end, our clients want to know how they are “perceived” in the world as a Medical Tourism destination brand, in order to develop an enhanced game plan that will help them take over a bigger share of this continuously growing industry. ‍

How is the SHMTI broken down?

The SHMTI Index considers three main factors as the drivers of medical tourism, and each of the three factors has a subset of items that allows a more detailed comparison in order to measure each destination’s attractiveness and brand awareness as a medical tourism destination. The main three are:
The destination’s environment
Its medical and tourism industry
The quality of its facilities and services. The Star Health And Medical Tourim Index provides us with more in depth ranks and scores, using separate items for each one of the main factors, which are:
Economy, safety and Image
Culture
Destination Attractiveness
Medical Tourism Costs
Quality Care
Reputation
Internationalization and accreditation
Patient experience ‍

How can the SHMTI ranking be used?

The overall scores and ranks from the Star Health And Medical Tourim Index tells us how each destination is doing against the other destinations participating in the index. So, we analyze each destination’s actual situation and its performance in the Star Health And Medical Tourim Index. We can better understand the strengths and weaknesses that might be affecting or benefiting a destination and its medical tourism brand, and that sometimes was totally different to common beliefs. What this study is showing is the potential each and every nation has to become a successful medical tourism destination. Creating the correct strategy, by not only taking advantage of strengths, but also focusing on the weaker parts of each system to reach efficiency, brand recognition and trust can be achieved. Brands are not built overnight, but resources should be correctly allocated to guarantee better returns. ‍

Why was the American consumer group used for the SHMTI?

At the time the SHMTI was developed, there was a significant interest from destinations all over the world to attract the American market. The drivers for Americans to leave a destination perceived to have high quality of care to other destinations was an interesting phenomenon to consider. The common driver for other consumer groups to travel for healthcare has been for better quality of care. This is less the case for the American traveler. The SHMTI survey may be used to study any consumer group as a consultative and research tool. If you are interested in having a consumer group surveyed using the SHMTI, please contact us at info@starhealthandmedicaltourism.com ‍

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