The Best Medical Tourism Platforms

Without these agencies and facilitator companies, medical tourism wouldn’t be the same

Much like other industries, medical tourism is made up of several components that in conjunction with one another make the industry as it is. Trust has always been a key issue in medical tourism. A medical tourist needs to have confidence in the services that he or she is about to receive. They also need to be assured of the safety and the nature of logistics and accommodations that they will be having in the host country.

Language barrier is another key issue for travelling patients. An issue as crucial as medical treatments absolutely cannot be subject to miscommunication between the doctor and the patient.

The need of medical tourists to be familiar with the frame of law concerning medical procedures, their rights, and the state of insurance in the destination country, along with the aforementioned causes has necessitated the existence of medical tourism platforms, agencies and facilitator companies.

These companies provide consultation, travel and medical advice, and will subsequently provide travelling patients with accommodations, flight bookings, medical schedules, and interpreters. They also have extensive links to a number of highly qualified medical centers around the world, to which they will refer patients based on the nature of the medical issue at hand.

Today we will take a look at the best of these medical tourism platforms.

Booking Health

Booking Health was founded by a young Elena Sergeeva as a small online medical tourism consulting platform, today however, it is one of the largest and premier medical tourism platforms in the world.

Booking Health is a portal for the direct booking of treatments in the world’s leading clinics around the world. The portal is associated with more than 250 clinics all of them with the highest quality and holding accreditations throughout the world.

Booking health provides extensive information and help to its customers, and enables patients to receive the necessary services and full medical support. They generally make their customers save on diagnostics and treatment from 40% up to 70%, compared to a direct contact with the clinic.

Therefore, working with Booking Health will save you both time and money.  Booking health was the first first medical tourism company in the world with the ISO 9001 quality certificate and  for more than 15 years they have been adhering quality standards for assessing and selecting hospitals for patients. The company itself is registered and headquartered at the city of Bonn Germany.

Metta Health

Metta Health is one of the very first global UK-based medical travel agencies with an emphasis on bringing the east and the west together.] Metta Health Center primarily focuses Southeast Asian and other predominantly and potentially immigrant yielding populations. The word “Metta” itself means “loving kindness” in the Buddhist Pali language.
Their diverse services include primary medical care for all age groups through a family medicine model, chronic disease control, diet counseling, mental health services, traditional and alternative medicine advice, acupuncture, massage therapy, social services, meditation, and even education and referrals.

They heavily promote and acknowledge the importance of cultural beliefs and to that end they provide a bicultural mental health specialist with and a licensed mental health clinician and, if needed, a psychiatrist or a psychiatric nurse practitioner. The mental health specialist not only interprets, but also serves as a bridge between cultures in the treatment. They also provide free consultation at their website.

Metta Health is best suited for patients for Southeast Asian and Middle Easters medical tourists, and generally makes treatments 50 percent cheaper compared to directly acting for treatment in the UK. It is headquartered at Kemp House, 160 City Road, London.

Medigo

Medigo is a relatively newer entry on today’s list, however by no means does it make Medigo stand shorter tha its competitors. Medigo was launched in 2013 as a medical tourism platform with the slogan, ‘Medical Travel Made Simple’.

In 2016 Medigo reached 350,000 visits a month, a spectacular figure for a business just three years old. By 2017, Medigo began to receive mainstream attention and was feature on the front page of The Telegraph in the UK. Between 2013 and 2020, they have arranged for more than 200 thousand cases of successful medical travels from 195 countries, varying from simple checkups to advanced surgical procedures. Medigo is associated with state of the art medical centers in 50 countries around the world, providing a near unparalleled diverse roster that can suite the needs of all patients.

Also in 2017, Medigo  ventured into providing TPA insurance services, this makes using Medigo for your travels services increasingly efficient as they can also handle your insurance cases: one stone and two birds. Medigo is headquartered Rosenthaler Str. 13 10119 Berlin, Germany.

TraveDoc

TraveDoc does not do all the other services including accommodations, flight bookings, and reservations. So why are they featured? Simple; they are one of the best companies specializing in connecting patients to doctors. Their network is massive with access to medical facilities in 60 countries across all 5 continents. TraveDoc is therefore ideal for you to safely avoid potentially phony medical tourism agencies, find your own doctor, and then focus on the travel aspect of your journey.

TraveDoc has a strict policy of only accepting senior physicians into its network, and conducts thorough background and facility checks to give each and every patient a doctor they can trust, no matter where they travel.

TraveDocs first enquires about the patients’ needed medical specialty, location, and language and then appropriately refers them directly to the most suitable doctor, taking into account the language barrier, costs and needed treatments.

They will then ask for the patient’s personal information and documents to book their appointment directly on the doctor’s calendar.

This process is much quicker than the one you’d be going through with a stereotypical medical tourism platform. However it excludes all the other services. Medical tourists that often worry about mostly medical aspects of the travel and have little trouble organizing their own traveling plans will fond TraveDoc best for them.

Article by: Parsa Khaknezhad