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MediXall Group, Inc. Enters the Medical Tourism Space with the Launch of MediXall Global Solutions
MediXall Group, Inc. Enters the Medical Tourism Space with the Launch of MediXall Global Solutions.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, Aug. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE-- MediXall Group Inc.(OTCQB: MDXL), a technology and innovation-driven organization focused on reducing healthcare costs and transforming the patient-provider experience, is pleased to announce that it is entering into the Global Medical Tourism Space by launching MediXall Global Solutions (MGS) (https://medixall.com/tourism). With the Company’s underlying technology and relationships with healthcare providers, MediXall plans to establish a system that can create a patient-centered medical tourism platform to innovate the entire global medical tourism industry. To accomplish this, MediXall Global Solutions will initially leverage the 22,000 radiology providers and facilities in the CoreChoice network to offer affordable high-quality imaging services at convenient locations just across the Northern US border to serve Canadian patients. The Fraser Institute released a 2018 study showing that wait times in Canada have continued to increase over the past two decades, with wait time in 2018 113% longer than in 1993. After receiving a referral from a general practitioner, the typical Canadian patient waited more than 19.8 weeks to receive treatment from a specialist. That was the longest average waiting period on record -- and more than double the median wait in 1993. Patients also experience significant waiting times for various diagnostic technologies across the provinces. The study states that Canadians could expect to wait 4.1 weeks for a computed tomography (CT) scan, 10.8 weeks for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, and 3.9 weeks for an ultrasound. It is estimated that, across the 10 provinces, the total number of procedures for which people were waiting in 2018 was 1,082,541. This means that, assuming that each person waits for only one procedure, 2.9% of Canadians were waiting for treatment in 2018. With these long wait times, many Canadians have started to travel outside of Canada to seek treatment, with an estimated 63,459 Canadians received non-emergency medical treatment outside Canada in 2016. With Ontario being the top province from which patients traveled abroad for treating, the MediXall team has started the process of onboarding Imaging Centers located near Detroit, Michigan & Buffalo, New York to better serve con...