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Why Medical Tourism Professionals Need to Speak with HR Professionals

HR professionals need to determine and fill holes in the staff, manage employee relations, health plans, and much more. Medical tourism is traveling beyond your home for medical treatment.

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Medical Tourism Index | Leading Industry Tool

The Medical Tourism Index is the standard-bearer for contemplating travel outside their country of origin for a medical procedure. Medical Tourism has increased significantly with the explosion of complex communication techniques and transportation technologies.

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Two Thumbs Up For Online Doctor Ratings

When you want to buy something, you go straight to the internet and look up the customer reviews regarding the product. Something similar is coming to healthcare as Cleveland Clinic began posting patient ratings of individual doctors on its website.

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Questions to Ask When Looking for Stem Cell Treatment

As the awareness and proliferation of stem cell is increasing, how can a smart consumer of medical care tell which is better? In this article, we have compiled a list of questions you should ask when out for shopping for care.

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Outbound Chinese Medical Tourism

Chinese citizens are leaving their homes in search of the best care available or for the care that they desperately need. A market information company found that nearly 483000 people traveled from China for medical tourism in 2015.

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Central European Countries- Attractive and Affordable for Medical Tourists

The Organization for OECD estimates that nearly 50 million patients travel abroad for medical treatment every year. According to the OECD analysis, by 2019 the global medical tourism market could achieve a turnover of more than $60 billion.

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Brexit's Effects on Medical Tourism: People Still Need Good Care

In a world of swiftly-changing politics and economics, people who battle life-threatening diseases competes with challenges.‍ Jason Girard relayed his thoughts how Brexit might affect the free commerce of the UK, including the promotion of medical tourism.‍

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CMTP Graduate on Why the Course is Essential to the Medical Tourism Industry

The CMTP certification provides healthcare professionals, travel agents, facilitators, insurance agents, and HR professionals. This knowledge provides designees with information that is unavailable to their company and essential to career development.

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The Future of Artificial Organ Transplants in Medical Tourism

The cost of artificial organ transplants, countries that focus on attracting medical tourists could greatly benefit. Analyst projections show Asia as the fastest-growing market for artificial organs and related surgeries and medications.

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Global Travel Tips From a Medical Travel Professional

Over the last 10 years, I have traveled to more than 30 countries and met thousands of people with different backgrounds, cultures. Whether for personal or professional purposes all travel includes some basic must-haves to ensure comforts and conveniences.

Technology & Innovation

What an NHL Player Taught the Medical Tourism Community about the Right to Try

Former Detroit Superstar Gordie Howe crossed the border into Mexico to receive a controversial stem-cell therapy treatment. The treatment became necessary after he suffered a series of strokes in the months prior that paralyzed his right side.

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Healthcare Access for the World's Children

According to the WHO conditions such as preterm birth intrapartum-related complications and infections are the primary causes of death. For babies and children post neonatal to five years old the main causes of death are diarrhea malaria and pneumonia.

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WMTC-2016 Boao China Opens the Door to East-West Collaboration

Co-organized by the MTA in partnership with the Hainan government and Beijing Great-Idea Business Resource Company Ltd. International hospitals at the conference had the opportunity to meet with top Chinese Facilitators.

Destination Spotlight

Medical Tourism Saved My Life

WorldMed Assist, a medical tourism company, helped me get an autologous stem cell transplant performed at Anadolu Medical Center. Just after 2011, I started seeing ads on my computer screen every time I logged on to search for potential new FDA studies.

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Aging Well No Matter the Age or Country

Ageism is symptomatic of a nation that is in the throes of its own historical adolescence, a transient society. Youth, at any age, appears to be a desirable social currency juvenilization, characterized by the loss of cultural memory and losing our place.

Destination Spotlight

France: Quality Healthcare is Just a Connection Away

French medicine is very progressive and emerged after Lyon has stunned the world by a transplant of both hands and forearms. Many remember France as a place for relaxation and gastronomic experiences, Paris is about climbing the Eifel Tower.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine to Treat Cancer is Not Recommended Says Health Officials

According to the NIH, there is limited evidence to support the effectiveness of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). When it comes to patients choosing TCM over Western medicine for life-threatening conditions there is less debate and more agreement.

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Dubai Gearing Up for Incoming Patients

Recently, Dubai transformed itself in order to attract world travelers, focusing on strengthening the Dubai healthcare system. The Ministry of Health is projecting that by 2020, more than one million medical tourists will visit Dubai each year.

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Becoming a Certified Medical Tourism Professional

15 years ago we started noticing international visitors coming to Puerto Rico to visit Sononuclear RP for PET CT scans. We were the first in the Caribbean to offer this technology making it accessible to patients without having to travel to the U.S.

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Point A to Point B in Washington D.C.

Washington, D.C., will serve as host to many business travelers from September to November apart from being Home to the President. Due to the pleasant weather and lack of traditional tourists, this time of year is noted as the best time to visit D.C.