Comments on: Private health care with Chinese characteristics

By: James Smith

James Smith — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:05:39 +0000

You did well on this analysis..this is really an eye opener for china..they can improve their Health Services. Chinese would have a greater income for health industry... Thank you for sharing this blog...

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Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:02:44 +0000

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Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:32:06 +0000

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By: Damjan

Damjan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:42:34 +0000

My response on LinkedIn:

Hopefully unlike love affairs, the current focus afforded to more cost efficient and patient friendly health care won’t fizzle out.

I read the other day, however, that some 60 or more CVS/Minute Clinic locations are closing down, so i really want to find out what happened there.

Whatever may turn out to be the case, I think opreating costs in China would make it easier for a concept like Minute Clinic to take off. And, if the Chinese are able to look inside themselves and really build a health system that upholds the principles of their ancient medical wisdom, then we might really see some cool stuff start coming out of its health industry.

By: Damjan

Damjan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:42:11 +0000

Lynn Nezin EVP, Business Development at White Space Healthcare Marketing commented on LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/2/124/b50

I particularly enjoyed the concept of recommending an ice cream sundae at 7-11 to bring down fever. I have always been intrigued by a Chinese medical concept that may no longer be in fashion, that of paying the patient to stay well by not charging the patient when ill, based on the premise that if a patient became ill, the doctor was not doing his/her job. Given our new love affair with preventive medicine, that seems like a billing strategy that makes a lot of sense.

By: Damjan

Damjan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:55:03 +0000

@Jack Perkowski
Like you have pointed out, the “two markets” notion is very simplistic to grasp, but it is infinitely harder to put into practice. Even making use of the two market system is hard for a lot of people coming into China – shopping at Jenny Lou’s for everything, vegetables included, when JingKeLong’s vegetables are half as cheap and its selection much wider, is just one example.

I doubt very much my ideas are the right ones, but I thought I’d give it a shot as just an exercise of sorts. The things I am seeing going on in the health industry right now tell me that a wave of home grown innovation will be coming soon.

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Battlestar China: It has all happened before… | Asia Health Care Blog — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:45:46 +0000

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By: Simonn

Simonn — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:38:13 +0000

Thanks for posting these useful information. Keep them coming

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Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:44:55 +0000

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By: Jack Perkowski

Jack Perkowski — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:11:46 +0000

Damjan,

Nice analysis and commentary. The gap between the local and the international markets in health care is as wide as any product or service I have seen in my fifteen years in China. That is why it simply has to close, and why I consider health care in China to be one of the big opportunities going forward. Whether the specific ideas you mention are the right ones, I can’t comment. But, they’re heading in the right direction.

Thanks for referencing my ideas about the two markets in China and for mentioning my book and my blog. I appreciate it. While the “two markets” concept may seem simplistic, it’s amazing how many companies don’t understand and try to deal with it.

Jack