Posts Tagged ‘Medical’

10 Tips for doing medical device business in Israel

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

Israel is the only “western” country in the Middle East.  With a population of 7.4 Million, it is well known for innovation, both from developing & export, & for technology adoption.  The high level of medical care is led by a few university hospitals in the 4 major cities. Being a small country, one may feel that everybody knows everyone.

A few tips that may help a company considering entering the Israeli market:

Regulatory – if you have CE or FDA approvals you shall not have regulatory difficulties. Reimbursement – Define the procedures of your product, most of the products don’t need special reimbursement (especially if they are a part of the procedure), if you need special reimbursement – it could take 1-3 years, but it does not prevent penetration of the products to the Israeli market to some extent. Procedures opportunities – Define the KOL (Key opinion leaders) by the number of procedures, their activity and/or by number of patients that they see, not by their name. The use of media for personal PR may bias one away from the real high volume clinicians. Define the market segment -

The Israeli market offers great opportunities for all the product segments:

ü  Low cost products – The health expenditure in Israel is one of the highest worldwide. The MOH and hospitals try to reduce the expenditure on the medical devices.

ü  New technologies: The regulatory and the reimbursement allow fast penetration to the market. However, pricing may pose a problem sometimes .But the private market (35% of the procedures) could be a great solution as a first penetration step.
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Report of Chinese Medical Instrument Industry under International Financial Crisis, 2009

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Although the largest medical instrument markets are America, Europe and Japan now in the world, China is generally acknowledged the hugest potential market. In the developed countries, the output values between medical instruments and manufacture are 1: 19. It is only 1: 5 in China. There is a huge potential for medical instrument market in China.

The direction of Chinese medical system reform is fundamentally clear. The government will increase the investment in the constructions of public hygiene systems, community systems in urban areas and rural grass-root medical hygiene systems. It can be predicted that Chinese medical instrument market will be in a period of rapid growth in two to three years.

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How Does ?Medical Billing? Fit Into The ?Work At Home Scams??

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Yes, you can work from home in medical billing, just not typically as an “employee.”

Nearly 600,000 Americans lost their jobs in January 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, and 2-3 million more jobs are projected to be lost over the coming year.   Sadly, because of this, “work from home opportunity scams” are on the rise.  These scams prey on people’s vulnerabilities and fears and with so many people out of work, wondering what they are going to do next to sustain themselves financially, there’s a lot of vulnerability and there is a lot of fear out there.

Over the past couple of months, many television programs and news shows, such as 20/20 and Dr. Phil, have devoted air time to exposing scams and telling stories about individuals who have fallen victim to these scams.  These television programs understand that this is a hot topic in high demand, more so now than ever before.  Just like bacteria, germs and disease, given the right temperature (the state of our economy) and set of circumstances (vulnerability and fear), the scams are growing and multiplying.

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Medical Assistant Career ? Opening Doors to a Profession in Healthcare Services

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Medical Assistants

Medical Assistant Career – Opening doors to a profession in healthcare services.

Medical Assistant careers are gathering demand in the background of a healthcare industry boom worldwide.

A Medical Assistant essentially is a healthcare professional with multiple responsibilities and skill sets required to execute the same. Both administrative and medical tasks that do not need much medical proficiency fall into the ambit of a Medical Assistant.

Medical Assistants are indispensable in any modern day healthcare practice. Engaged under physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors, and other health practitioners. Medical Assistants attend to the complexities involved in delivering medical services.

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Dealing With Common Medical Conditions

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

It could take ages to consider all of the most common medical conditions.. The reason being is many conditions seem to change overnight. For instance, HIV/AIDS used to be considered a rare condition, then around the 80′s and early 90′s it seemed to have a noticable increase.

Although we can’t tell you what doctors depict as being rare compared to common, we have comprised a list of some of the most widely diagnosed conditions. You do not have to be suffering from one of these conditions in order to view it as common. The term “common” is more leaning towards a wider percentage of people who do have these particular conditions.

Migraines- Unfortunately, we’ve all had to deal with a headache or two, however, minor headaches are not seen as a serious illness that you should rush to your doctor about. When the severity of the headaches escalate so high that they become a debilitating condition suffered on a regular basis, they are then referred to as migraines. In this case, it is recommended that you see a doctor.

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