By Jessica Yarbrough, Marketing & Communications Manager, Satori World Medical

We are extremely honored to share with you that Entrepreneur Magazine has selected Satori World Medical among its 100 Brilliant Companies to Watch in 2009 and as the leading profiled company on this prestigious list within the health care category.  As a result, Satori World Medical and our President & CEO Steven Lash were prominently featured on the cover of Entrepreneur’s June issue.

Please feel free to read the entire Entrepreneur Magazine featuring Satori World Medical here. You can also pick up a copy of the June 2009 issue of Entrepreneur at any major newsstand or retail location nationwide.

The vetting process required for this selection demonstrates that Satori World Medical has created a business model that is poised for tremendous growth over the next several years, despite today’s challenging economic climate.

A combination of factors has led to a substantial increase in the popularity of medical travel programs like Satori World Medical: favorable clinical outcome results in high quality accredited international hospitals; the escalating cost of healthcare in the U.S.; an increase in the dollars that a patient is responsible for in their healthcare expenses; the ease and affordability of international travel; significant improvements in technology, hospitals, physician and nurse training; and overall demonstrable improvements in the transparency, measurement and quantification of the standards of care available globally.

In fact, according to a 2008 Deloitte consumer survey on medical travel, by 2011 medical tourism is forecasted to become a $13.9 billion industry.  A recent Gallup Poll on medical tourism also found that a sizeable minority of Americans are willing to travel abroad for major medical procedures, especially if they believe the quality of care would be the same, but significantly more affordable, than care in the United States. 

Stated Amy Cosper, VP/Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, in a recent press release issued by the publication about its selection of 100 Brilliant Companies to Watch, “Even amid the toughest economic challenges, entrepreneurs have prevailed with their unstoppable determination, brilliance and timing.”

The time for global healthcare has come and we’re excited that Satori World Medical is leading this transformation.