IBC Asia Announces the Healthcare and Insurance Collaboration Forum Bringing Together Healthcare Providers and Insurance Companies to Discuss Win-Win Partnerships

Online, November 2, 2010 (Newswire.com) - IBC Asia announced the launch of the Healthcare and Insurance Collaboration Forum happening on 29-30 November in Singapore that will be the first platform in Asia to bring together the various industries involved in healthcare-insurance relationships. This highly anticipated and controversial inaugural event will feature never-before discussed issues on expectations of each party, dealing with perceptions and roles, understanding and improving working relations and addressing the issues of cost, quality and communication.

IBC Asia's research into the industry showed some points of conflict among insurance and healthcare providers, usually resulting in limited access-to-care, creating dissatisfied customers and eventually creating consumer distrust to both parties. This in turn limits the growth of both industries. As growth is still a common goal, the Forum will discuss issues surrounding it, strategies to expand each other's businesses and how both parties can work alongside with the reality of conflicting goals .

Industry opinion maker Dr. Nipit Piravej, CEO of The World Medical Center Group and Chief Corporate Officer of Bangkok Chain Hospital, Thailand opines that "Critical dialogue between the health providers and insurers who are the health core value creators is a very first step towards development of preferred health system of the future."

Whether you are from a hospital looking to excel and expand business, from insurance tasked to optimize resources or from a TPA, broker or HMO finding the best balance to maximize revenues - the objective of effectively working together is common. This meeting will feature industry leaders from Aviva, ICICI Lombard and Munich Health. They will meet with healthcare professionals from Union Hospital (HK), Max Healthcare (India), Parkway, Mt. Elizabeth and Raffles Hospital (all from Singapore) to discuss hard-hitting and timely topics crucial to improving partnerships between and among insurance companies, brokers, TPAs, Physicians, patients and hospitals