13 March 2023
Under the Radar: Conversation with CEO of Mount Elizabeth Hospital on the return of medical tourists to Singapore; Focus on Value-Driven Outcomes and IHH’s target to achieve 90% of VDO at or above international benchmarks by 2025; Being the first hospital to acquire world’s first photon-counting CT; Trends in the private healthcare industry
Singapore is known to be a medical tourism hub due to its good facilities and services, with the country’s healthcare system ranked first in Asia and fourth in the world in the Medical Tourism Index by US-based Healthcare Research Centre.
According to the Yusof Ishak Institute Singapore, about 500,000 foreign patients visited Singapore annually for medical treatment prior to the pandemic.
While a bulk of them stopped entering Singapore in 2020 due to the pandemic, it seems like premium regional medical tourists are returning again.
But to what extent has that boosted business for private healthcare providers? Well, that's what we are going to find out from Mount Elizabeth Hospital today.
On Under the Radar, Drive Time’s finance presenter Chua Tian Tian sat down with Yong Yih Ming, CEO, Mount Elizabeth Hospital to find out.

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