Governance mechanisms of medical tourism e-services: resilient networking

Abstract

Abstract. Medical tourism is one of the rapidly growing sectors and has a huge economic potential for the Korean economy through the expansion of the Korean medical tourism service (MTS) network for the Commonwealth of Independent Countries (CIS) region. Previous explorations are focusing on specific areas of medical tourism. A few academic studies devoted to the governance aspects of this complex sector. The paper suggests a modeling framework for investigating the governance process in the field of MTS delivery to make it efficient and resilient. The purpose of this study is to analyze the domestic and foreign factors impacting Korean medical tourism service delivery governance and how this medical service delivery (supply side) matches to CIS tourists demand. What are the gaps in the delivery of Korean MTS for CIS and how to reduce these gaps through enhancing the Governance process and making it robust including e-governance mechanisms interactions with social networks? Most facilities of technological infrastructures are proprietary of government, or private sector and according to combined network approach might be stratified into diverse layers on pertinent beds while connected to other systems of the same or different field. Research and practical benefits of the study are also obvious: gaining insight into the properties and processes of the real governing systems and pertinent security issues. As a plus, this model approach proved the valuable fact that in contrast to small social networks, those of large scale generally exhibit good expansibility with inherited topological vulnerabilities. This property might be a platform to establish strong cooperation, promote the delivery of services through national borders, and provide pertinent safety and security. Moreover, all interdisciplinary challenges intuitively utilize and enhance medical tourism network extension. In particular, there is insufficient research on the enhancing governance process in the medical tourism delivery as well as the limitation of employing Comprehensive Network Analysis (CNA) to assess the medical Tourism governance mechanisms and their resilience.