Quarterly Updates: Eyes Wide Open
Q4 2011: Policy & Geopolitical Influences on Healthcare, a video update.
Q3 2011 Update: Geopolitical Influences on Healthcare, a video update.
Speech: "Beyond Tomorrow: Private Healthcare in Emerging Markets"
Presented at the IFC
4th International Private Healthcare Conference, Wash, DC. May 25 2011.
For a full text copy, click: "Beyond Tomorrow: Private Healthcare in Emerging Markets"
Speech: "Health Insurance and Takaful, the Sector's Bright Futre"
Presented at the 5th Annual Middle East Healthcare Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Sept. 28, 2011
Current Press Releases:
Mohammed Bouazizi and Health Takaful
Hospitals in Emerging Markets
North Korea Attack Exposes Liability of Medical Tourism
Humana:
Hank Kearney, PHM International president speaks out on Humana's
Acquisition of Concentra. Click
here.
Interactive chart of global debt levels over time...
http://buttonwood.economist.com/content/gdc
Restructuring Regional Health Systems in Russia
Past Speeches (below) Past Commentary
(non-PHM Emerging Markets
Healthcare Monitor)
"Insurance and Finance in Medical
Globalisation"
World Wide Health, 2008
Taipei, Taiwan
May 28, 2008
"Health
Insurance, A Global View" and
"Future
of Medical Tourism"
KPJ Healthcare Conference
December 2005
Putrajaya, Malaysia
"The
Future of Healthcare Delivery"
AAIHDS 10th Annual Fall Managed Care
Forum, 2003
Las Vegas, USA
"Medical
Globalisation: 2nd Stage Medical Tourism"
Association of Private Hospitals,
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur. August 2005
"Global
Privatisation Trends in Healthcare and Insurance"
Invest Dubai, 2001
Dubai, UAE
"Medical
Travel for Hospitals"
Presentation. 2003
USA
"Wellness
and The Agent's Client"
Benefit Forum 2004
Atlanta Association of Health Underwriters
Atlanta, USA
Pharma
Pricing Model comments re:
BIOTECH: The Myth of Value-Based Pricing – So Far
Health Affairs
March 05, 2007
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/02/20/biotech-the-myth-of-value-based-pricing-%E2%80%93-so-far/#comment-1688
Teleradiology Outsourcing Can Go Two Ways
Health Affairs
14 September 2006
Time to separate financing, delivery of
health care
Business Insurance
28 April, 2003
http://www.businessinsurance.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?articleId=12728&a=a&bt=hank+kearney
Healthcare portability can be a win-win
for everyone
Business Insurance
3 March, 2008.
http://www.businessinsurance.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?articleId=24255
Uninsured Americans and the new
Democratic Congress
British Medical Journal
Commentary
28 November, 2007.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/333/7579/1134#150255
A Panacea for Whom? Re:
Consumerism And Controversy: A Conversation With Regina Herzlinger
Health Affairs
24 July 2007.
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/eletters/26/5/w552#2599
"Diagnosis: Expect Growth Spurt"
Poland leads health insurance modernization among the former Soviet
satellite states.
Best’s Review
February 2006. Subscription required
http://www3.ambest.com/Frames/FrameServer.asp?AltSrc=23&Tab=1&Site=bestreview&refnum=102621
"Global Bonanza"
Economic, demographic and political changes offer great opportunities
for private health insurance around the world.
Best's Review
May 2002. Subscription required.
http://www3.ambest.com/Frames/FrameServer.asp?AltSrc=23&Tab=1&Site=bestreview&refnum=17727
Teleradiology Outsourcing Can Go Two Ways
Response by:
Hank Kearney, CEO
PHM International
September 14, 2006
McLean
and Richards illustrate the rational and logistical issues of
unilateral outsourcing. However, I would encourage readers to think of
international trade in medicine, and teleradiology in particular, as a
two-way system of optimizing their own in-house expertise.
The
legal and regulatory issues of whom and how teleradiology images are
read will be resolved in time, simply due to economic pressures. And a
by-product of these efficiencies will be a larger pool of physicians
with expertise in reading challenging images. But at one level this can
be viewed as a commodity practice with downward pricing due to market
expansion.
Two-way trade requires organizations to think
critically and objectively of the expertise they possess -- the
expertise that adds value to a process. In the case of teleradiology, a
hospital may consider its expertise in image segmentation,
registration, and visualization. In this scenario, the commodity
process of who takes the image, or who reads the image, is easily
assigned to a low-cost, low-value position. In turn, hospitals would
want to consider the high-value part of teleradiology, which can be
seen to include the skills of image segmentation, co-registration,
pre-operative mapping, etc.
Most hospitals will react to the
current market pressures and move much of their radiology efforts to
the commodity, low-cost, low-value market. But a few are already
exploring how to contract out their own high-value in-house expertise
to other markets, and other hospitals.
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/25/5/1378.full/reply#healthaff_el_1073
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