2. PRIMARY CARE NETWORK
+ Provides a direct link to primary care clinics
in select communities in key national or
international patient supply markets.
+ Integrates the provision of healthcare
and associated services over national and
international boundaries.
+ Scalable to meet speci c patient recruitment
needs by volume or by specialty.
+ Provides a unique brand building opportunity
in key patient supply markets through the
networked primary care clinics.
3. REFERRING PHYSICIANS
+ Enables referring physicians to better meet
the health needs of their patients and the
communities they serve by providing access
to care that may not be readily available or
that may cost prohibitive locally.
+ Creates a professional peer-to-peer network
between referring physicians and providing
hospital specialists, which assures patients
have access to the most appropriate care and
achieve the best possible post travel health
outcomes.
+ Enables physicians to generate additional
income for their practices through the
provision pre- and post-travel health care, and
more specialised health services.
4. E-HEALTH SYSTEM
+ A secure electronic health record system and
clinic that enables referring physicians and
providing hospital specialists to access and
share clinical data over Internet, through
a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act) compliant system.
+ Provides vitally important clinical decision-
making tool that enables referring physicians
and providing hospital specialists in di erent
geographic locations to collaborate together
to facilitate and provide the required care.
+ Provides increased certainty over the
planning and management of the in ow
of travelling patients by capturing travel,
accommodation booking arrangements.
5. MEDICAL TRAVEL FACILITATORS
+ Promote the providing hospitals and their
services to primary care clinics and physicians
in key patient supply markets.
+ Build the network by populating it with
referring physicians and clinics located in
select communities in key markets.
+ Provide logistical support to ensure patients
travel by the safest and most appropriate
means to arrive at their intended destinations
on time.
+ Provide travelling patients with specially
designed medical travel insurance coverage
designed to insure logistical risks associated
with medical travel.
+ Utilise the network to grow their business and
increase the ow of patients through the PPN.
6. MEDICAL TRAVEL INSURANCE
+ Provides travelling patients with vitally
important protection against risks associated
medical travel, such as missed departures,
missed connecting ights, loss of pre-paid
travel, accommodation, and hospital deposits,
injury, unrelated illnesses, and post travel
medical complications.
+ Produces additional income for the medical
travel facilitators and lessen their dependence
on the payment of referral fees
7. PROVIDING HOSPITALS
+ Extends the reach of patient recruitment
activities into key patient supply markets
through a network of primary health care
clinics.
+ Scalable network capable of meeting current
and future patient recruitment needs – by
volume or by specialty.
+ Establish a best practices business model
for the medical travel (Global Health Care
Industry).
+ Optimises hospital bed occupancy, operating
theatre, and equipment utilization rates to
provide the best return on hospital assets.
+ Creates a unique hospital owned asset and
brand in key primary care markets.
8. MEDICAL SURGICAL AND
COMPLICATIONS INSURANCE
+ Covers virtually any kind of elective surgical
procedure.
+ Assures patients are able to receive all the
care they need, at no additional cost, in the
event of medical or surgical complications.
+ Assures providing hospitals and specialists of
payment for additional care provided to treat
complications.
+ Mitigates the risk of wrongful medical
malpractice claims from patients incurring
unexpected costs they may be unwilling or
able to meet.
+ Used as price hedging tool to x the cost of
packaged surgical procedures.
+ The cost can be factored into the procedure
prices, typically without a ecting the cost
competitiveness.
9. THE COMPLETE NETWORK
+ Integrates the provision of health care
and associated services over national and
international boundaries.
+ Brings together referring and providing
doctors, and enables them to better meet the
health needs of their patients.
+ With the e-health system, enables doctors in Creates a self-sustaining entity scaled to
di erent geographic locations to collaborate
optimise operating theatre and hospital
to make the best possible decisions for their
equipment utilisation rates aimed at providing
patients.
the best possible returns on hospital assets.
+ Enables medical travel facilitators to grow the
network and utilise it to increase their current
business, and increase ow of patients
through the network.
+ Ensures that everything goes smoothly for
patients, with Medical travel insurance.
+ Ensures that hospitals receive payment for
their unexpected bills and patients receive all
the care they need at a pre- xed price, with
medical and surgical complications insurance.
10. ABOUT IMF
+ Over 20 years industry experience at
designing and developing award winning
international insurance programmes,
products and alternatives for the
international health insurance industry.
IMF Trustees Limited
International Medical Fund House
P O Box 2841, Christchurch 86525
New Zealand
T +64 3 980 3935
Kenneth D. Hunt
PROGRAM DEVELOPER & CEO
M 021 276 8575
kenneth@imftrustees.com