New physician matching service links patients with the best specialists

Americans spend billions of dollars on advocacy services to guide them in legal, financial and insurance decisions, but when it comes to the most important area of their lives -- their health -- they've had no where to turn- until now. Flagship Global Health, Inc. (FGHH.PK) has developed a new advocacy service called Specialist Care Direct(TM) that guides people through one the most important decisions of their lives -- finding the best physician specialists to treat chronic and life threatening medical conditions.

"Members join flagship because they need a second opinion or the right first opinion," says Fred Nazem, founder and CEO of Flagship Global Health. "Today, finding the right specialist is unpredictable, time consuming and risky especially when someone is under duress. Flagship has removed these barriers by building the largest network of the best physician specialists in the country and securing priority appointments with them on our members' behalf. Essentially we've taken the guesswork out of finding the best doctor."

Specialist Care Direct(TM) is powered by Flagship's Virtual Center of Medical Excellence for Specialist Care, a physician network that the company has been building over the past three years. Modeled after traditional brick- and-mortar centers of excellence, Flagship's virtual center embraces all medical specialties and uses a team approach for educating patients and linking them with the best doctors to diagnose and treat them. Flagship's network is not confined to a single geographic location or even a group of institutions, so patients can get access to renowned physicians throughout the world regardless of location and affiliation.

Flagship has constructed this center of excellence for specialist care by qualifying, recruiting and contracting with leading physician specialists who are well known for their ability to diagnose and treat complex medical problems in thirty medical and surgical disciplines and over one hundred and fifty sub-specialties. This effort has been coordinated by a nucleus of chief physician specialists who assure the quality of the doctors in the network utilizing perhaps the most rigorous screening process in medicine that was jointly developed by them and the company. These chief physician specialists include renowned physicians such as Dr. Mehmet C. Oz (Cardiac Surgery); Dr. Jeffrey S. Borer (Cardiology); Dr. James Holland (Oncology); Dr. Iain Kalfas (Neurosurgery); and Dr. David Helfet (Trauma/Orthopedics).

Flagship's network includes not only the leading physician specialists who are affiliated with the nation's top medical institutions such as New York Presbyterian, Brigham & Women's, Johns Hopkins, Mt. Sinai, Virginia Mason, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and UCLA Medical Center, but also outstanding physician specialists elsewhere who have a record of exceptional clinical outcomes. The network also includes physician specialists located throughout Europe, the Middle East, Caribbean and China and currently serves other Asian countries from its Beijing office.

The company has also created a proprietary technology platform that coordinates all activities of their network. This platform matches patient's needs with qualified specialists in the network who are best suited to help them. This platform supports all communications between doctors and members as well as between the specialist teams working on the member's case. In addition, Flagship members receive a user-friendly, on-line, personal health record that allow doctors and patients to easily share patients' medical history and information, prior to and following appointments. This system of care ensures that patients receive a highly personalized healthcare experience.

Flagship offers both individual, family and group membership plans. For more information please visit http://www.flagshipglobalhealth.com.

Source: Flagship Global Health Inc.