1.Internet searching

Prior to traveling to Taiwan for treatments, health travelers would strongly recommend to visit Taiwan Task Force On Medical Travel (TTFMT)’s official website to get preliminary ideas for more treatment options and travel information. TTFMT’s official website (http://medicaltravelintaiwan.com/index.php?lang=zh-tw)

2.Introducing medical services

The TTFMT website has composed a variety of service packages that provide something valuable for everyone. It’s detailing for special treatments, facilities and instrumentations. TTFMT is assuring health travelers of best possible service and therapeutic success.

3.Finding certified hospitals, clinics and doctors

To confirm treatment options, health travelers are encouraged to surf at TTFMT ’s official website to find certified hospitals, clinics and doctors.

4.Contacting and requiring

Once selected hospitals and physicians, health travelers can develop more understandable knowledge of medical services by following four ways：

• On-line services：Based on TTFMT ‘s professional experience, TTFMT has composed On-line services which considers an efficiently way to serve health travelers. Through working hours 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, hospitality information officers will answer all kind of medical inquires.
• E-mail：Health travelers may write mail alternatively, detailing in personal health record, personal needs and leave contact massage. TTFMT will give instant feedback as soon as possible.
• Contacting by phone：Health travelers can also make use of the phone service provided by TTFMT at working hours through 9:30am to 5:30pm.
• Person to person service：The most efficiently way is coming by TTFMT center, the contacting information can be found at the TTFMT web page.

 

5.Application and personal medical information

Health travelers either make an appointment with hospital or through TTFMT for further specific treatments, each of procedure is asked for personal health informations, (such as test result from specialist’s office or written recommendations from local specialist related to personal condition and bill of health)

6.Contacting health travelers

TTFMT will instantly make contact with health travelers once completed form is received. It indeed needs to have a simple and reliable way to learn medical information about past and new health concerns of health travelers.

7.Evaluating

All applications will be evaluated by TTFMT and given final approval.

1.Applications confirmed

TTFMT will make sure that all the facilities, treatments and instrumentations are perfectly met application‘s need, the contact procedure shall be made after evaluation.

2.Physicians and time arrangement

TTFMT will confirm with health traveler about arriving time, arranging physicians by then.

3.Hospitalization admission

Physicians will give permission regarding hospitalization and room arrangement.

4.In-Country Transportation

Medical care workers will make further contact with health travelers if hospitals provide pick-up service.

5.Leisure travel

Indulge yourself with a luxury package and discover the beauty of Taiwan, TTFMT is pleased to be your trip planner, satisfy your burning desire.

6.Arriving in Taiwan

Arriving in Taiwan on schedule.

7.Arriving at the Hospital

Come by yourself or ask for a pick-up service, the medical care workers will help to make any necessary reservations.

8.Physician Interview

Interview in accordance with health records, a deeply discussion will give both understandable knowledge before operation.

9.Pre-operation examine

Preparation work for the operation, required pre-operation examination. Physicians make comparison with the test result from local specialist office, review of the effectiveness of operation.

10.Under treatment

Physicians will do the treatment in accordance with test result.

11.Hospitalization or routine visit

After a day surgery procedure, on bed rest is necessary and required.

12.Recuperation and recovery

Postoperative care is the management of a patient after surgery, as well as recovery care. TTFMT will make health traveler a routine visit after operation.

1.Discharge home

When health travel is discharged home from hospital, health travelers should be taken physicians’ suggestion, arranged a leisure travel or return home depend on personal situation.

2.Travel preference

In order to gain a mind, body and soul tour, take a long term or short term trip by physicians’ advice and make yourself a regular visit during the immediate postoperative period.

3.Return home

Return home with a therapeutic success.

4.Follow-ups

Health travelers are managed at home on a follow-up basis by a phone, e-mail or webcam..

5.Making a routine visit or hospital transferring

Health travelers will be reminded to call his or her physician if any complications or uncontrolled pain arise. Physicians will make health traveler a routine visit or even transfer to local sister hospital for an inspection if needs.

6.Regularly follow-ups

To ensure that health travelers have good outcomes after surgical procedures, hospital will manage on a regularly follow-ups make sure that things are going well.