Taiwan vill erbjuda internationaliserad hälsovård

Taiwans Executive Yuan har presenterat  ”Taiwan’s Economic Development Vision for 2015 – First-stage Three-year Sprint program” och nämner ”Medical Service Internationalization Flagship Project” som ett prioriterat utvecklingsområde.

Fokus ska bland annat läggas på strategiskt samarbete mellan den taiwanesiska turistindustrin och sjukvårdsindustrin samt att fortsätta med förenklandet av inreseprocedurer vid gränsen för att öka attraktionen att resa till Taiwan för sjukvård.

PRESS RELEASE

Government Information Office
November 26, 2009

Taiwan to promote internationalized medical care services

Taiwan’s Economic Development Vision for 2015—First-stage Three-Year Sprint Program was undertaken by the Executive Yuan in response to the global trend toward internationalization and industrialization of medical care services and lists the Medical Service Internationalization Flagship Project as a key development priority. In October 2007, the Department of Health (DOH) began planning distribution channels and marketing campaigns targeting the current state of this initiative. The objective is to integrate the resources of industry, government and academia into a medical care service network and jointly build a brand image of Taiwan as the home of first-rate medical care services.

The Medical Service Internationalization Flagship Project since its implementation in 2007 has focused on enhancing the basic operating environment of the industry and building distribution channels. A number of gradual results have been obtained so far: The DOH’s Taiwan Task Force for Medical Travel (TTFMT) has helped partner Taiwan hospitals with the Guangzhou-based Zion Health Club, Formosa Health Business Company, Ltd., and Pacific Rim Medical Overseas Consortium to collaborate in transferring patients to receive medical care. TTFMT is also actively putting together international cooperation channels. It has signed memoranda of understanding with Guardian Healthcare Co., the Taiwan subsidiary of the Harvest Medical Investment and Operation Group, and Canadian Allied Development Services International, Inc., whereby patients of foreign nationality requiring multinational medical treatment will have priority referral to hospitals cooperating with the TTFMT.

Since Taiwan is currently still in the early stages of developing medical care services for the international market, strategic planning is to be undertaken in five areas:

The DOH believed linking high-quality medical services with a caring and customer-oriented service ethic could lead to innovative operating models for the medical care industry and attract international clients. It also has the potential to stimulate growth of Taiwan’s tourism, transportation and related service industries while boosting overall national competitiveness.