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    Sep 17: Healthcare Hot Topics Series: Medical Tourism

    Healthcare Hot Topics Series: Medical Tourism
    Date: 9/17/2008
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    Event Description:
    Medical Tourism:
    The Price is Right…or is it?
    September 17, 2008
    8 – 9:30AM
    Featuring:
    Jonathan Edelheit, president, Medical Tourism Association
    Renee-Marie Stephano, chief operating officer, general counsel – Medical Tourism Association and editor of Medical Tourism Magazine
    While there are many different analyses about the current impact of the medical tourism market, there is no doubt that it holds significant opportunities and/or implications for employers, providers, payors and individuals.
    Unsustainable healthcare costs and rising un/underinsured rates characterize a healthcare industry in which the globalization of health care cannot be ignored. According to McKinsey and Company, medical travel market gross revenues were $40 billion worldwide in 2004, projected to grow to $100 billion by 2012.
    Speakers will address:
    - Current trends in the globalization of health care
    - Barriers to growth of the medical tourism market
    - Management of risk: providers, payors, employers & individuals
    - Domestic policy’s impact on restricting or encouraging market growth

TECH Fort Worth Acceleration Lab

The TECH Fort Worth Acceleration Lab, a partnership with the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth opened in early April, 2008. The area is on the second floor of the Center for BioHealth on the UNTHSC campus. 

The Acceleration Lab will leverage the resources at the university for the benefit of clients who are developing new medical devices, novel discovery tools for health and pharmaceutical research and other life science innovations.

The Acceleration Lab consists of six wet labs, cubicle space, a private conference room, the UNTHSC’s Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization and TECH Fort Worth staff offices, with access to common areas, a break room and other conference rooms on campus.  The facility also will provide shared office equipment, internet access and administrative assistance. 

In addition, TECH Fort Worth clients have access to the Office of Grants and Contracts Management for assistance in identifying funding opportunities, preparing and submitting grant and contract proposals, and attaining support for post-award account set-up and monitoring.  The Office of Human Subjects Protection, in conjunction with the Office of Clinical Trials, is also available to TECH Fort Worth clients for identification of subject populations and implementation of clinical trials required for development of products and devices.