Announcing The First Hospital In The World To Accept Steem!
Imaxess is now the first hospital & clinic in the world to accept steem & SBD for payment!
As many of you know, I'm traveling through Mexico right now.
Along the way I've been looking up all of my friends, family and business associates, hell anyone that will listen to me! and talking to them about steem and just how revolutionary this platform is. My end goal here is to spread the steemit message and get as many real live businesses as I can to accept SBD directly for payment.
Today I talked with my good friend Dr Eduardo Padilla. I've known him literally for I don't even know how many years. He's the Director and primary shareholder of Imaxess which is a hospital and outpatient clinic in Tijuana.
Imaxess was the first hospital in the entirety of Mexico to have MRI & CT facilities. They were also first in the WORLD to accept bitcoin for payment. They have one of the only bitcoin ATMs in Baja California thanks to @alechahn
Now they are they are the first to accept steem and SBD thanks to your's truly!
This facility has been on the cutting edge of medicine for over 20 years! Dr Padilla is a well known radiologist and he literally wrote the book on both radiology and tele-medicine. He's a noted lecturer and speaker as well.
I've convinced him to come here and run the account @imaxess himself. He will be blogging about the latest happenings in healthcare and creating content exclusively for steemit.
He also teaches aspiring young doctors and medical students and will be encouraging them to enroll in steemit. He will be using steemit as a teaching platform and leveraging the power of social media for education and outreach. We also talked today about something else that is huge and I can't disclose, but MAN I'M DYING TO!!!
I believe what he has in the works will revolutionize medical care as we know it!
I can't tell you how unbelievably huge this is!!!
Starting on Monday you can spend your SBD, dollar for dollar for qualified, competent medical care in a world class medical facility. But this is only the beginning...
Imaxess is the flagship of a chain of hospitals in baja, so this is the first of many, many hospitals that will be accepting steem!
I'll be updating their billing system over the weekend to accommodate SBD, I'm sorting out how to integrate the blocktrades API right now. So if anyone from blocktrades could chime in, that would be lovely.
If you happen to be in Mexico and would like to drop by any time after Monday morning, here's a map...
You can also follow @imaxess and feel free to visit www.imaxess.com
He will be making his introductory blog post on Monday and so I'm asking all of my followers to please give him a warm welcome by following him now and upvoting him when he arrives.
Keep Steemin!
Wonderful! I'm glad to see Steem being used an opportunity for a teaching platform. I tried it already with my some of my math 'classes'. There are a few tools that are lacking to properly be able to do math lectures (i.e. no mathjax yet), but I think that, in general, teaching and doing live lectures and interactive courses is just another use-case for the blockchain.
I agree completely! One of the major selling points I talked about was the potential to post homework, get feedback on it and also the ability to prove grades without any BS.
So cool! They show get on the map of businesses accepting Steem.
https://www.steemlocator.com/
Do you get onto this map?
I don't have a business that accepts steem at the moment, but if I did I would get on that map so people could find me.
Nicely done in connecting these guys to Steem! I have to say I never thought about paying for medical services with cryptocurrency until now.
They've been accepting crypto for awhile since their primary market is medical tourists. Honestly adapting this to SBD is so much simpler than when we put the bitcoin code in.
Wish there was a testnet to work with though.
Congratulations! This is truly an achievement! Hopefully, the payment method with steems will prove easy enough that it will catch on in other businesses.
It's happening!
Yes it's happening right now in fact! Have I mentioned that I really love this place?
And we love you <3
Ahh thanks! I really appreciate that!
This will be an excellent use case for Steemit. Well done and thank you. I have resteemed.
Thank you very much! They've been accepting bitcoin for awhile, and now SBD :)
Sweet, now my blogs about heavy drinking, smoking and drug use can pay for my liver, lung and heart transplant!
Woohooo!
I'm with ya on that. Booze and nicotine will send me to an early grave. But at least I lived well!
and enjoyed the ride!
xD
Sounds great! Feel free to contact me at info at blocktrades.us and we can exchange IM info so that we can assist as needed.
I sent an email earlier, did you get it? It's from [email protected] since I already had you in the rolodex there.
yes, I saw it a bit later, and I've replied to it
Thanks!
Interested in updates of medicine and science I've now added @imaxess to my following list :)
Awesomesauce! I'm super glad you did that!
Another key element here is the way Mexican medical care processes, facilities and procedures are progressing far beyond the US system.
Yes and also the medical education system here is second to none. Many premed students come down here from the USA finish up their education here in Mexico and go back to the USA to practice. This way they don't have to spend the rest of their lives tied down and enslaved to student loan debt.
Fact you can go from Bachelors to MD in the same amount of time here for less than 1/10th the cost.
Medical Degrees issued in Mexico are valid in the USA and subject to the same stringent requirements, they just cost a lot less.
Also medical research in Mexico is a booming industry. Many medical studies are carried out here and like I said before TJ is largest manufacturer of medical devices in the world!