As this medical tourism space grows, one thing which most of them forget is the importance of medical continuity. You simply cannot take a patient from U.S healthcare or any country’s healthcare and put the patient in a different country and expect everything to be normal upon the patient’s return.
Some things that needs to be watched out before travelling abroad for medical treatment are
•Is your prescribed drugs available at your local pharmacist?
•Any post-complication protection?
•Any group of physcians who can provide followup visits locally?
•How about post-vital sign measurement services and reporting back to the hospital abroad?
•Do I have the data in a secure fashion so I can plug in to my physicians’ EMR system or hospital system?
The list is not limited to this but you get the point, good planning always helps
