How would foreign patients insurance companies and hospitals from USA and Europe know about high or poor quality a hospital from India can offer. This is an interesting question. It is good that systems like accreditation from JCI are there but do they really offer the guarantee you as patient, insurance company or hospital will like to get?
In bariatric surgery we go some steps further with the US-concept of Centre of Excellence bariatric surgery set up by Surgical Review and American Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. Clear guidelines according to US-laws and regular inspection of surgery and service providing is real guarantee for quality.
The database of Centre of Excellence bariatric surgery is called BOLD and gives an unique option to share data between hospitals, when they have a tight cooperation together.
Obesityasia (www.obesityasia.com) is in process to become, hopefully also the first, International Centre of Excellence bariatric surgery in India so we can make strong commitments with US and European hospitals on the field of medical outsourcing to us.
