Medical tourism seeing influx of investors with startups positioning themselves to capitalize on the interest in consumers looking for places to have lower cost procedures, according to an article on the MedCity News website.
There is also an interest in providing support services for these healthcare facilities and their clients.
Entrepreneurs who generating investor interest in medical tourism include:
Venture investors are interested in entrepreneurs who can develop tools to bridge the communication gap so that an increasingly wealthy middle class interested in getting procedures done in the U.S. can return with medical records patients and their doctors can understand.
DocDoc raised $8.6 million this week for a physician search tool aimed at expatriates in Asia.
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