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1st International TEMOS CONFERENCE
"Healthcare Abroad & Health Tourism"    
 

Program
 

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Monday, November 16, 2009

Focus: International Travel and Health
 
 

 09 00 - 09 30

Welcome  

 09 00 - 09 15 Opening speech
(Prof. Dr. Rupert Gerzer)
 09 15 - 09 30 Welcome Note
Mathias Redders - Head of Unit, Ministry of Labour, Health and Sozial Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

 09 30 - 10 20

Session 1: TEMOS and its activities - an Overview

 

 Chairs: Prof. Dr. Rupert Gerzer - Head of Institute of Aerospace Medicine at the Technical University of Aachen, Head of the Institute of Aerospace Medicine, DLR/Cologne 
Dr. Claudia Mika - CEO Temos
 09 30 - 10 10 TEMOS activities: Today & Tomorrow
(Dr. Claudia Mika)
 10 10 - 10 20 Discussion

 10 20 - 10 50

Coffee & visit of exhibition


 10 50 – 12 30

Session 2: TEMOS Hospitals - the international view


 Chairs:
Dr. Chatree Duangnet  - FAAP., FACMQ., CEO, Bangkok Hospital Medical Center
Klaus Behrens - Director and COO of Cerona Brazil, Vice President of Hospital Oswaldo Cruz in Sao Paulo/Brasil
 10 50 - 11 10 HAOC Sao Paulo, Brasil
(Klaus Behrens)
 11 10 - 11 30 Medical Tourism & Treatment Abroad… Destination India
(Dr. Kalyan S Sachdev - Chairman and founder of Privat Healthcare Group / India)
 11 30 - 11 50 Needs of contemporary travellers – challenges and solutions for medical provider at the Turkish Riviera
(Dr. Murat Akcacioglu - Founder and CEO of Medicus Clinic Primary Care Center)
 11 50 - 12 10 Surakarta Islamic Hospital, the first Temos certified hospital in Indonesia
(Dr. Djufrie - Director of Surakarta Islamic Hospital / Indonesia)
 12 10 - 12 30 Introduction to the Bangkok Hospital Group
(Dr. Chatree Duangnet)

 12 30 - 13 30

Lunch & visit of exhibition


 13 30 – 15 00

Session 3: Repatriation - needs for improvement


 Chairs:  Dr. Wolfgang Mayrhofer - Medical Coordinator of Malteser Assistance
Dr. Gerhard Müller - Operations Manager Travel & Health of Mondial Assistance
 13 30 - 13 50 Repatriation - ongoing conflict and dispute between treating doctors and assistance companies
(Dr. Gerhard Müller)
 13 50 - 14 10 Repatriation Medicine: Maidservant  or Creative Mediatress Between Different Medical Cultures? - A Personal Retrospective of Two Decades of Travel Medicine and Telemedical Assistance with Swiss Air-Ambulance REGA.
(Dr. Philipp Rogenmoser - Former chief medical officer REGA (Swiss Air-Ambulance)
 14 10 - 14 30 Repatriation - Safety and security - need for operational and technical standardization in commercial aircraft
(David Lopez - Malteser Service Center)  
 14 30 - 14 50 Viewpoint Carrier: Lufthansa Medical Services
(Doris Ehring, Manager Sales and Marketing of Lufthansa Medical Services)
 14 50 - 15 00 Discussion

 15 00 – 15 30

Coffee & visit of exhibition


 15 30 – 17 00 

Session 4: Care for Expatriates


 Chairs: Dr. Klaus Schäfer - Assistance and travel medicine consultant, member of ADAC MedicalServices management circle
Dr. Franz Benstetter  - Head of Operational Services Munich Health, Munich Reinsurance Company
 15 30 - 15 50 Risk provisioning performing a professional preparation of projects and special examining and coaching employees
(Dr. Wolfram Weinsheimer, M.D., Head of Industrial Medicine, Voith AG)
 15 50 - 16 10 Medical Care for expatriates during their stay abroad and the importance of a medical provider network
(Dr. Stefan Eßer International SOS, Medical Director - Medical Services, Germany)
 16 10 - 16 30 International development for health care systems and expatriate health insurance: Public-Private Partnerships in Europe and the Middle East
(Dr. Franz Benstetter)
 16 30 - 16 45 Discussion
 16 45 - 17 00 Summary & recommendations from Day 1
 19 00       Reception, Cologne City Hall

 

Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009

Focus: Health Tourism, Medical Travel and Healthcare Abroad


 09 00 - 10 30

Session 5:  Telemedicine - Proven applications for international care services


 Chairs:

Prof. Dr. Michael Nerlich - Head of the Department of Trauma at the University of Regensburg Academic Medical Center Surgery, President of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH)

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Goetzke - Economist, Director of gewi-Institute for Gesundheitswirtschaft e.V., Co-founder of the Fresenius University in Cologne 

 09 00 - 09 20 Telemedicine in the German Armed Forces
(Dr. Patrick Scheid - Head of the medical parasitology laboratory Central, Institute of the German Army Medical Service)
 09 20 - 09 40 Distributed management of chronic diseases - example diabetes and obesity  
(Dr. Stefan Kottmair - CEO, almeda – assistance and health services)
 09 40 - 10 00 Interoperability of home monitoring systems:  focus frontend
(Andreas Lanyi - Head of Telemedicine Department, Temos International)
 10 00 - 10 20 Future of health
(Prof. Dr. Michael Nerlich)
 10 20 - 10 30 Discussion

 10 30 - 11 00

Coffee & visit of exhibition


 11 00 – 12 30

Session 6: Health Tourism - the German perspective


 Chairs:

Prof. Dr. Andreas Gadatsch - Professor of Business Information Systems at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

Leonore Boscher - Managing Director at International Office of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf 

 11 00 - 11 20 International patients in German hospitals: markets & trends
(Prof. Dr. Andreas Gadatsch)
 11 20 - 11 40 Economic significance of health tourism: The success story of Bonn Medical Partners
(Victoria Appelbe - Director at Economic Development Office of the City of Bonn)
 11 40 - 12 00 Entering Eastern European Markets for Medical Services
(Maria Onyshchenko-Dubow - Marketing Manager at Office for International Medical Services (IMS) at the University Medical Center Freiburg)
 12 00 - 12 20 Medical tourism - a chance for German and foreign hospitals and doctors to strengthen patient rights
(Leonore Boscher)
 12 20 - 12 40 Medical tourism and cooperation based on knowhow transfer - 
Introduction of a new model: Queen Rania Rehabilitation Centre of Cologne
(Prof. Dr. Eckhard Schoenau - Head of General Outpatient Department and Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetics of Children’s Hospital / University of Cologne (Germany), Medical Director of the Queen Rania Rehabilitation Center Cologne)
 12 40 - 13 00 Discussion

 13 00 - 14 00

Lunch & visit of exhibition


 14 00 – 17 00

Session 7: Health Tourism - the European perspective


 Chairs: Dr. Uwe Klein - Founder and director of Health Care Strategy Intl., Munich/Germany

Dr. Constantin Constantinides - CEO of healthCARE cybernetics, Athens/Greece
 14 00 - 14 20 Framework and Care cycle in Medical Tourism: Key issues and success factors
(Dr. Constantin Constantinides)
 14 20 - 14 40 Cross-border health care – from the perspective of the statutory health insurance
(Elisabeth Reker-Barske , responsible for the unit „European/international affairs“, Strategic business unit „Policy/corporate strategy“, Federal Association of the AOK, Berlin/Germany)
 14 40 - 15 00 EU Directive on cross-border health care and patient mobility: Status and perspective
(Dr. Luigi Bertinato - Director of International health and social affairs office, Departement of Health and Social Services, Regione Veneto, Venice/Italy)
 15 00 - 15 20 Do we need a “European Standard” for quality in medical tourism?
(Keith Pollard - Director of Treatment Abroad, UK)
 15 20 – 15 45 Coffee & visit of exhibition
 15 45 - 16 05 Outsourcing of Quality Medical Products for EU Countries: Bangkok Hospital Experience
(Dr. Chatree Duangnet - FAAP., FACMQ., CEO, Bangkok Hospital Medical Center)
 16 05 - 16 25 Health Tourism in East and South Europe: Cooperation opportunities for Western Health Insurances
(Matthias Buchholz - Consultant, Kohl & Partner GmbH, Vienna / Austria)
 16 25 - 16 45 Medical tourism: Challenges and opportunities for hospitals, health insurers and service providers
(Dr. Franz Benstetter - Head of Operational Services Munich Health, Munich Reinsurance Company)
 16 45 - 17 15 Discussion
 17 15 - 17 45 Summary recommendations for future TEMOS activities
 19 00 
Transfer for Congress Dinner

 

Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009

Focus: Health Tourism, Medical Travel and Healthcare Abroad

 09 00 - 11 30       Medicine in Germany
                          Visit of "Mediapark Klinik", Cologne  

 


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