Healthcare Elsewhere

Dr. Sanjay Prasad is the Founder and CEO of SurgiPrice located in Rockville, Maryland. They started in 2007 as a marketplace for patients to become empowered in coming up with an informed decision. By doing so, patients are empowered by providing them with data on quality, parameters, past experiences and outcomes that a certain surgeon has. They also provide patients with a multiple bundled bids from the company’s network of elite surgeons and these transparencies aid patients in opting for a more experienced surgeon at an affordable and reasonable cost. Discover more how Dr. Prasad and his team are very much passionate and committed in providing excellent patient care and helping them attain the value that they deserve.

This interview was recorded at the World Medical Tourism Congress in Washington D.C. where John was a featured speaker in September 2014.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn

• About a certain patient that Dr. Prasad had who suffered a foot fracture and had no insurance
• How they were able to help this patient by providing 3 bids from several surgeons
• Their impetus in starting SurgiPrice
• How they create a marketplace for in-patient and out-patient surgery
• How patients are empowered with data on quality, parameters, past experiences and outcomes that a certain surgeon has
• How hospitals have gained interest in becoming an employee of the new medical care system
• How they empower patients, specifically the non-insured, to not settle for an expensive option
• How they gather data from their network of elite surgeons and interested surgeons who want to become a part of their company
• The typical surgical procedures that patients go for when visiting their facility
• About the number of patients that they were able to provide surgical care
• About the Mobile Application that they are launching early next year
• The top three questions and tips that Dr. Prasad has provided for patients who would likely travel to receive medical care

The Resources

• Company Website
• Contact Info: (240) 406 – 1211

The Onwards Medical Breakthrough

It may take guts to cure diabetes: Human GI cells retrained to produce insulin

“By switching off a single gene, scientists at Columbia University’s Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center have converted human gastrointestinal cells into insulin-producing cells, demonstrating in principle that a drug could retrain cells inside a person’s GI tract to produce insulin.”

“The new research was reported today in the online issue of the journal Nature Communications.”

“People have been talking about turning one cell into another for a long time, but until now we hadn’t gotten to the point of creating a fully functional insulin-producing cell by the manipulation of a single target,” said the study’s senior author, Domenico Accili, MD, the Russell Berrie Foundation Professor of Diabetes (in Medicine) at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC).”

“The finding raises the possibility that cells lost in type 1 diabetes may be more easily replaced through the reeducation of existing cells than through the transplantation of new cells created from embryonic or adult stem cells.”

You can learn more about this discovery at this link.

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