Week 3-2 MEDICAL TOURISM

As a current or future health care executive, it is important to weigh the variety of things that consumers consider when making the decision to subscribe to health services offered by your health care organization. For what are your consumers looking, and what drives them to choose your health care organization? What are some of the items on which you need to reflect that consumers will use to drive their decision to utilize your health services?

For this Discussion, review the resources for this week and reflect on those considerations consumers keep in mind when selecting a health care organization to meet their health care needs. Think about what aspects of health care delivery in your health care organization, or one with which you are familiar, might be considered most important for a consumer to take into account when selecting where to receive health care.

Post an explanation of how the role of medical tourism might relate to social change. Be specific, and provide examples for both the consumer and the health care administration leader.

• Healthgrades Operating Company, Inc. (2016). Healthgrades Links to an external site.. Retrieved from http://www.healthgrades.com/
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (2016c). Hospital compare Links to an external site.. Retrieved from https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html