Allen Molly, Garman Andrew, Johnson Tricia, Hohmann Samuel, Meurer Steve
US Cooperative for International Patient Programs, Chicago, USA.
World Hosp Health Serv. 2012;48(2):11-4.
President Obama announced the National Export Initiative in his 2010 State of the Union address and set the ambitious goal of doubling US exports by the end of 2014 to support millions of domestic jobs. Understanding the competitive position of US health care in the global market for international patients, University Health System Consortium (UHC), an alliance of 116 academic medical centers and 272 of their affiliated hospitals, representing 90 percent of the nation's non-profit academic medical centers partnered with Rush University, a private University in Chicago, IL and the International Trade Administration of the US Department of Commerce International Trade Administration (ITA) to participate in the Market Development Cooperator Program. The goal of this private-public partnership is to increase the global competitiveness of the US health care industry, which represents over 16 percent of the GDP, amongst foreign health care providers. This article provides an overview of the US health care market and outlines the aims of the US Cooperative for International Patient Programs, the end result of the partnership between UHC, ITA and Rush University.
奥巴马总统在其2010年国情咨文中宣布了国家出口倡议，并设定了到2014年底将美国出口额翻番的宏伟目标，以支持数百万个国内就业岗位。为了解美国医疗保健在国际患者全球市场中的竞争地位，大学卫生系统协会（UHC），一个由116家学术医疗中心及其272家附属医院组成的联盟，代表了美国90%的非营利性学术医疗中心，与伊利诺伊州芝加哥的一所私立大学拉什大学以及美国商务部国际贸易管理局（ITA）合作，参与市场开发合作项目。这种公私合作关系的目标是提高占GDP超过16%的美国医疗保健行业在外国医疗保健供应商中的全球竞争力。本文概述了美国医疗保健市场，并概述了美国国际患者项目合作组织的目标，这是UHC、ITA和拉什大学之间合作的最终成果。
