Private health insurance launched for expats

A new private healthcare system which could benefit expatriates, has been released by Integra Global.

The health insurance provider has developed an electronic system as a key part of its new product.

Its system allows customers to monitor their health records from all over the world by storing their information securely online or on a private portable storage device.

This information is then made accessible to the customer's international healthcare providers.

Phillip Catterton, managing director of Integra Global, said: "Many of our members have been on numerous expat assignments and hence have physicians in several different locations."

He added that the tool would enable "the management of their health records with medical providers located worldwide".

The release of the new product comes within a month of HSBC's release of a survey of expat countries.

HSBC found that while Canada was the most agreeable country for expatriates overall, Bahrain came top of the healthcare poll.

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Posted by Eleanor Ward