The MTA will be exhibiting at 61st annual conference of the Society for Human Resource Management. The conference delegates are mainly US employers who will attend the conference and come through the exhibit hall.
The MTA has released preliminary results from its first patient surveys in the Medical Tourism Industry. The MTA has created this medical tourism patient survey as part of a larger research project to study the medical tourism industry.
This is a survey prepared in conjunction with the Medical Tourism Association and Los Angeles Association of Health Underwriters. Anonymous results will be published as a combined study in Medical Tourism Magazine.
Global healthcare is a rapidly growing practice of traveling across international borders to obtain quality medical treatment. Even after accounting for airfare and a short vacation, more than 50 countries have identified medical tourism as a national industry.
Currently more than one in three people will develop cancer during their lifetime. The Rinecker Proton Therapy Center in Munich, Germany offers a new chance to cure cancer as modern proton therapy promises to be superior to the techniques of photon therapy.
Austria not only is the heart of Europe from a geopolitical point of view, it is also a renowned medical competence center. The so-called “first and second Viennese medical school” have become keywords with an impact reaching far beyond Austria’s borders.
If marketing can be called the vehicle that brings dreams to reality, a marketing budget can certainly be referred to as the fuel that drives the vehicle. A marketing budget has long since outlived the traditional moniker of being a financial tool.
The most commonly recognized CAM practices in the U.S. are acupuncture, massage, vitamins, supplements and herbal remedies. Conventional medicine is medicine and surgery practiced by holders of an M.D. degree or a D.O. degree and by allied health professionals.
The world economic recession is having an effect on medical tourism, but whether it is a positive or negative effect depends on what country you are in and if you are attracting medical tourists from new and emerging countries.
US healthcare providers learned lessons, both positive and negative, through the formation and dissolution of networks. Readers should observe that, if executed correctly, a strategic partnership of free standing hospitals to create a healthcare provider network.
With the growth of medical tourism projected to skyrocket in the next decade, now is the time for hotel properties to consider their interest in serving this special type of guest.
Hospitals must also deliver an exceptional patient experience in order to have meaningful success in servicing the patient base. Ultimately your hospital may offer the utmost in health care and still fall short in overall evaluation by the patient.
Bariatric surgery is a therapeutic weapon for weight reduction, especially when one’s health is at risk. Today, the problems of overweight and obesity appear to have soared according to the statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO).
El Salvador, a country with barely 21,000 square kilometers of land, gives you the opportunity, in a matter of hours or minutes. Algid mountains where one can breathe fresh air and smell exotic tropical flowers while tasting wild berries.
The MTA recently joined forces with EXPORTSALUD, the Export Chamber of Medical Services in El Salvador to host a Familiarization (FAM) Tour in which six different U.S. based medical tourism facilitators had the unique opportunity to visit El Salvador.
In the UK, HCA International offers expert clinical care across an extensive rage of specialties at six leading London Hospitals. Each of which attracts world-class physicians and consultants from London’s eminent teaching hospitals.
We are seeing in the horizon an amazing shift in the type of healthcare being found in Latin America. Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Argentina and Mexico are attracting more and more patients.
Medical tourism signifies activities that combine health care with economical, short vacations. The rapid expansion and growth of the medical industry due to globalization, the problems related with health systems in some countries.
A Filipino medical tourism company offers medical travelers a worry-free world-class health holiday in the Philippines. A medical traveler has found the ideal medical tourism company if all he has to think about is packing and getting to the airport.
The nation of Chile is vibrant with opportunity, particularly in the field of medicine. Healthcare has come a long way and now that country is making another leap forward by becoming involved in the burgeoning field of medical tourism.
