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World Health
& Medical
Travel Forum

International Forum of Medical and Health Tourism

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Russia, Saint Petersburg, «EXPOFORUM»

15 – 17 september 2021

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Opening speech

Korneev Sergey Evgenievich

Chairman of the Tourism Development Committee of Saint Petersburg

Dear colleagues!

Over the past year and a half, we have witnessed the transformation of the global economy, healthcare and tourism. The pandemic led to a radical re-evaluation of priorities, when human life and health, availability of medicine and healthcare programs became the key values. The issues of the capabilities and limitations of national health systems in the context of the pandemic have gone beyond individual countries and have become international.
The World Health & Medical Travel Forum is an international business platform for the sustainable development of the medical and health tourism market, the agenda of which covers digital transformation, investment and innovation, national legal barriers and international industry standards.

Taking into account the implementation of national programs for the development of medical tourism and the export of medical services, the Forum is intended to become an interregional conversational platform for discussing the following national projects: "Tourism and the hospitality industry", "Healthcare", "International cooperation and export" in the context of medical and health tourism.

We invite you to take an active part in the International Forum of Medical and Health Tourism World Health & Medical Forum Travel, which will be held on September 15-17 in Saint Petersburg.

Key topics of the Forum

Global trends in the medical and health tourism market

Active longevity and a healthy lifestyle

Development of inclusive tourism

Digital transformation and investment

Development of tour operator and travel agency activities in medical and health tourism

International marketing and strategies for entering the foreign market

Innovative achievements of healthcare in the world

International certification and insurance programs in medical and health tourism

Rejuvenation technologies in health tourism

National projects and state regulation of the market

Health resort treatment

Post-COVID-19 rehabilitation

Forum structure

Medical and health tourism international exhibition

International conference on medical and health tourism

International workshop

International educational program

Opening of the international competition between industry leaders Health Travel Leaders Awards

Second opinion center for foreign medical tourists

Business program structure

Facilitation session

Panel discussions

Matchmaking programs

lift speeches

Plenary meetings and discussions

Topical sections of the Forum

Meetings of interdepartmental working groups

International educational program for tour operators, travel agents, medical organizations and facilities of health resort industry

International workshop

Opening of the international competition between industry leaders Heath Travel Leaders Awards

Active longevity

Inclusive tourism

The world center of medical and health tourism

A tourist product in medical and health tourism

Strategies for regions, clinics and health centers

International insurance and certification

Trends, digital transformation and investments

International marketing and branding

International experts invited to participate

President of the China Medical Tourism Association

Jia Xiao Fang

Professor of the Yonsei University, author of the medical and health tourism development concept of the Republic of Korea

Ki Naм Jin

International expert in medical tourism

Mert Akkok

The head of the GHA certification, she was the president and CEO of JCI for more than 20 years

Karen Timmons

Middle Eastern countries’ medical tourism expert

Abdallah Al Hindawi

CEO of the biotechnological company Bio Viva

Liz Parrish

UNWTO Secretary general

Zurab Pololikashvili

Head of Department of Dermatological Allergology, Department of Dermatology,
University of Debrecen Faculty Of Medicine Hungary

Andrea Szegedi

Russian executive authorities and heads of federal structures invited to participate

Chairman of the Tourism Committee of Moscow

Pronicheva Ekaterina Vladimirovna

Head of the Russian Railways Healthcare Central Directorate

Zhidkova Elena Anatolyevna

Head of Rossotrudnichestvo

Primakov Evgeny Alexandrovich

Head of the Russia's Federal Medico-Biological Agency

Skvortsova Veronika Igorevna

Chairman of the Tourism Development Committee of Saint Petersburg

Korneev Sergey Evgenievich

President of the National Health League

Bokeria Leo Antonovich

Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation

Salagay Oleg Olegovich

Head of the Federal Tourism Agency

Doguzova Zarina Valeryevna

representatives of the world's leading destinations for medical and health tourism;

russian and foreign medical centers of various forms of ownership;

international tourism, pharmaceutical, technological and financial organizations focused on the international market of medical and health tourism.

The World Health & Medical Travel Exhibition is a key platform for representatives of the medical and health tourism industry to enter the international market.

The exhibition will be attended by:

The forum will include World Health & Medical Travel Exhibition

To present your medical or health resort organization;

To get recommendations on entering the international market;

To sign cooperation agreements.

The Forum will host the largest B2B workshop with the participation of representatives of foreign medical tourism agencies. The workshop is organization of business meetings between medical organizations and objects of the health resort industry with representatives of agencies that send patients for treatment in different countries.

The workshop is an opportunity:

B2B workshop with the participation of foreign medical tourism agencies

International center for second medical opinion

Every year the brand of Russia as a global destination for medical and health tourism is being strengthened, and the international reputation of Russian healthcare is developing. In these conditions, more and more foreign patients are trying to get a consultation with Russian specialists, to get a second medical opinion service.

During the pandemic, there is a threefold increase in demand for a second medical opinion in Russia from foreign medical tourists.

The international center for the second medical opinion, which will function for the duration of the Forum, is a digital format for working with appeals from foreign patients from all over the world by leading Russian doctors, Candidates and Doctors of Medicine.

We invite telemedicine technologies providers to take part.

Exhibition of "Living Pictures"

The exhibition is held by Autstraction — a charitable art platform created to help talented people with autism spectrum disorders.

Holding an exhibition of "living paintings" by artists with autism spectrum disorder during the Forum. The exhibition provides an opportunity to encash paintings and thereby support financially talented artists.

As part of the Forum's cultural program, an exhibition of artists with autism spectrum disorder will help to draw attention to art and talents that may sometimes be hidden. This is an opportunity to show that there are so many talented people in our society, regardless of their state of health.

We invite you to participate in the World Health & Medical Travel Forum

Establish dozens of business contacts with foreign medical tourism agents

Participation in the workshop

Declare yourself at the exhibition on medical tourism for the Russian and foreign target audience

Exhibition stand

Become a general or informational partner of the Forum on special terms

Partnership

Take education in foreign programs for the development of medical tourism

Education according to international standards

Become a part of the business program and present a relevant topic

Participation as a speaker

Register for the Forum and get free access to the business program

Participation as a listener

Expert opinions

The federal project "Development of export of medical services" was launched in January 2019. Its main goal is to form an export-oriented sector of the healthcare system and attract foreign citizens for treatment in medical institutions of the Russian Federation.

Today, domestic clinics successfully compete in the international market of medical services. In the current economic realities, treatment and diagnostics in Russia, with their high-tech and professionalism of specialists at the level of Western clinics, are often more economically attractive than treatment in Europe and the United States.
2nd All-Russian Online Conference " Medical Tourism. Reboot" is one of the largest industry events that attracts the attention of Russian and foreign experts to discuss practical issues, exchange experience and jointly solve complex issues of organizing the export of medical services.
I am sure that this event will increase the level of information support for the federal project "Development of export of medical services" and will be useful to all participants!

Shepel Ruslan Nikolaevich

Deputy Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "NMIC TPM" of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation for the long-term development of medical activities

The formation of medical tourism is one of the tasks of the federal project "Development of the export of medical services", which is part of the national project"Healthcare". By 2024, it is necessary to reach the figure of $1 billion in the treatment of medical tourists. At the same time, in January – June 2019, foreign patients were treated in Russian medical institutions in the amount of $ 230 million. In total, 564 thousand foreigners were treated in Russia in 2019. 71 subjects of the Russian Federation participate in the implementation of the federal project "Development of export of medical services".
Many profiles are among the priority areas for the export of medical services, but oncology occupies one of the leading positions. For the second year in a row, the oncology profile, based on the amount of funds received, ranks second among the most popular profiles for providing medical services.
According to the data of the coordinating center, 3.9 million foreign citizens received medical services in medical organizations of the Russian Federation in the period from the II to the IV quarter of 2020, the volume of exports of medical services for 2020 amounted to $197 million.
Current issues within the framework of the Federal Project today are: provision of telemedicine services to foreign citizens, migration registration, visa support, billing of medical services.
The development of the export of medical services serves as a driver for the growth of the quality of medical care to the population of Russia.
The tasks set in the federal project "Export of medical services" of the national project "Healthcare" will be solved only with interdepartmental cooperation-with the participation of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Rosturizm, the Bank of Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian Export Center, so participation in joint commissions and conferences on Medical tourism is currently one of the key activities of the National Medical Research Center of Oncology named after N. N. Blokhin of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
The largest number of foreign patients comes from such countries as Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Germany, Latvia, Serbia and Moldova.

Tigran Gagikovich Gevorgyan

Deputy Director (NMIC) for the Implementation of Federal Projects

Medical tourism, travel for the purpose of improving
health and obtaining medical services, including high-tech ones,
outside the region of permanent residence is one of the promising
and fast-growing areas of economic development.
Since 2019, the Volgograd Region has been participating in the implementation of the regional project "Development of the export of medical services".
This project allowed medical organizations to look at themselves from the outside, assess their competitive advantages, enter new target markets for the development of medical services exports.
In order to attract a patient, it is necessary not only to provide high-quality and safe medical care, but also to provide convenience and comfort. Volgograd clinics have chosen exactly this approach - patient orientation.
It should be noted that the provision of medical services to foreign patients contributes to the development of extra-budgetary activities of organizations, and the funds received are directed to the development of their infrastructure and serviceability, which in turn improves the quality of medical care to the population of the region.

Troneva Victoria Evgenievna

Deputy Chairman of the Health Committee of the Volgograd Region

The formation of medical tourism is one of the tasks of the federal project "Development of the export of medical services", which is part of the national project"Healthcare". By 2024, it is necessary to reach the figure of $1 billion in the treatment of medical tourists. At the same time, in January – June 2019, foreign patients were treated in Russian medical institutions in the amount of $ 230 million. In total, 564 thousand foreigners were treated in Russia in 2019. 71 subjects of the Russian Federation participate in the implementation of the federal project "Development of export of medical services".
Many profiles are among the priority areas for the export of medical services, but oncology occupies one of the leading positions. For the second year in a row, the oncology profile, based on the amount of funds received, ranks second among the most popular profiles for providing medical services.
According to the data of the coordinating center, 3.9 million foreign citizens received medical services in medical organizations of the Russian Federation in the period from the II to the IV quarter of 2020, the volume of exports of medical services for 2020 amounted to $197 million.
Current issues within the framework of the Federal Project today are: provision of telemedicine services to foreign citizens, migration registration, visa support, billing of medical services.
The development of the export of medical services serves as a driver for the growth of the quality of medical care to the population of Russia.
The tasks set in the federal project "Export of medical services" of the national project "Healthcare" will be solved only with interdepartmental cooperation-with the participation of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Rosturizm, the Bank of Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian Export Center, so participation in joint commissions and conferences on Medical tourism is currently one of the key activities of the National Medical Research Center of Oncology named after N. N. Blokhin of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
The largest number of foreign patients comes from such countries as Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Germany, Latvia, Serbia and Moldova.

Kalinichenko Vladimir Ivanovich

Director of Economics, Candidate of Technical SciencesDoctor of Sciences, Professor, General Director of Medcomtech LLC

Currently, there is a great interest in medical tourism in the Russian Federation, which demonstrates, although insignificant, but stable growth. This direction occupies a large niche of world Tourism, but at the same time there are also problems that require in-depth study. First of all, this concerns the insufficiently high quality of medical services, which include the lack of a marketing structure and logistics in relations with travel and agency firms, as well as the lack of experience in the formation of complex medical tours. A great help in solving such problems will be the opening of a special state program for the development of medical tourism in Russia.

Haruta Svetlana Sergeevna

Head of the Insurance Medicine Department of St. Petersburg State Medical Institution "City Clinical Hospital 31"

The limiting factors of the development of medical tourism are: difficulties in obtaining a visa; lack of information about medical centers; practicing doctors in foreign languages; low efficiency of promoting medical services in Russia; a large number of foreign partners; attracting tourists to Russia, insufficient qualifications of doctors; lack of state support
The weak use of digital technologies and the need to open a state program for the development of medical tourism.
Which will make it possible to maximize the use of medical and sanatorium-resort potentials in Russia.

Nikolskaya Elena Yuryevna

Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

Medical tourism is a great opportunity for foreigners to receive qualified assistance from Russian specialists in the field of healthcare, make medicine accessible, and also attract financial flow. As practice shows, foreign patients independently arrive in the country and then go to medical institutions to receive treatment. Medical tourism in state institutions is not fully organized, so foreign patients prefer to be treated in private medical centers. For our part, we believe that state hospitals have something to offer foreigners, the only question is the competent organization of this process.

Salia Shakhovna Alekperova

Acting Head of the Department for Extra-budgetary activities of the St. Petersburg State Medical Institution "City Hospital of the Holy Martyr Elizabeth"