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Medko Helps You Connect With the Best Health Care Specialists in Latin America

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With a name like Medko Health, you may quickly run into problems with Medco Health Solutions (a division of Express Scripts) that has very deep pockets to challenge you on trademark issues. You might want to rethink the name.

Thanks for the feedback. Definitely something we're going to keep an eye out for! Our company/brand name is simply "Medko" and we're also not competitors with Medco (Express Scripts) so I am confident we won't run into any problems... but like you say they certainly have deep pockets and certainly something to be better safe than sorry over.

It might be a good idea if the website used images of actual doctors in the system, rather than using generic clipart. For example, it took less than a minute to find one of the main images on the American Heart Association website:

http://blog.heart.org/affordable-care-act-promises-patient-p...

Images are bought from shutterstock

Thanks for the comment and totally agree. I'm one of the founders and we would love to get our actual doctors up there as soon as possible.

I think you'd also have to add the Portuguese language to the menu, since Brazil is a potentially large market.

Also, as someone mentioned previously in the comments, adding images of actual doctors would be a very good idea, as it increases credibility.

Thanks for the feedback, definitely will be the next language/market

Shameless plug for a company here in Houston doing the same thing in the US:

https://2nd.md/

Its a popular market right now, Latam market is not as crowded as US.

Are these folks involved in Startup Chile by any chance?

Yes, we were in generation 6.2 from Feb-Aug, 2013. We remained in Santiago longer than any other international team from our generation and still have most of our team members in Chile. If you have any questions about the program, I'd be happy to chat about our experience.

What we need is a way for people in the U.S. to travel to Latin America and get much cheaper healthcare.

Thanks for the comment – my partners and I could not agree more and that's one of our goals with Medko. Patients that would like to go abroad can use our search to find English speaking doctors in LatAm. They can also send them a message to ask about what services the specialists offers for international patients. In the near future, we plan on having specific sections of the site dedicated to U.S. patients, inlcuding all the info they need regarding doctor selection, travel tips, insurance information, and more. Medko doctors can be a fantastic solution for patients that can't afford a procedure in the US and that is something that motivates our entire team.

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