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Destination Spotlight

An Airline Ready for Patients

Lufthansa, with its network of more than 200 destinations worldwide, is considered as a provider of state-of-the-art medical transport. Lufthansa is ideal for connecting patients to and from the U.S., India, Turkey, Middle East and Western Europe.

Healthcare Reform - Legal & Policy

Ethics and Medical Tourism

Cross-border travel for healthcare is not immune from ethical considerations and puts concerns of costs, risks and quality of care. A very real issue emerging in research is the ethical consequences of medical tourism.

Destination Spotlight

Portugal Preparing for Medical Tourism

All residents in Portugal have access to healthcare provided by the National Health Service (NHS), financed mainly through taxation. Portugal's advantage of its privileged location in the old world, and beach, rural and city minutes away from each other.

Editorial

Algarve's Health and Wellness Destination Branding

Algarve’s health and wellness destination branding uses a multidisciplinary, cooperative, holistic and composite approach. Destination branding develops international knowledge about the tourist destination, like the climate, gastronomy, natural and cultural resources.

Destination Spotlight

Crossing Border to Baja California

Millions of Americans and Canadians cross the border to Mexico each year in search of medical tourism procedures and treatments. Medical Tourism Survey found 76 percent of patients for medical travel are American, means the majority are neighbors of Mexico.

Editorial

Wellness Vacations Softer Side of Medical Tourism

We can now go on vacation and come back rejuvenated – instead of the way we come back which is exhausted, broke and fat. Wellness tourism – also referred to as lifestyle tourism — involves nutrition, stress reduction, weight-loss and anti-aging.

Destination Spotlight

Italy Culture Cuisine and Quality Care

Italy recognized as a major travel destination, offers medical tourists the opportunity to combine treatment with a vacation. Currently known for cosmetic treatments, Italy is also developing a reputation for dental surgery and wellness.

Destination Spotlight

Extending Medicare Overseas Example from Mexico

Travel is universally considered as something everyone loves, and the possibilities can be endless and people desire living abroad. Despite the popularity of travel, the U.S. government hasn’t adjusted Medicare offerings to include coverage overseas.

Editorial

Creating Successful Wellness Incentives: An Inside Job

Employers are in the business of keeping employees healthy, employers encourage employees to use the stairs instead of an elevator. Companies are developing attractive wellness programs, offering creative incentives to engage employees to participate in them.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Stem Cell Therapies Beginning to Come of Age in Philippines

Stem cell treatments are the future of medicine, research has already yielded historic breakthroughs against incurable diseases. Stem Cell treatment can be used to treat progress against cancer, diabetes, HIV and other illnesses.‍

Marketing & Business Development

Marketing Healthcare Services to Employers

A long evolution in the structure and delivery of healthcare is underway, not just in the U.S., but all corners of the globe. The maturation of healthcare access and delivery tends to be characterized by a greater emphasis on service value.

Accreditation & Certification

Art and Science of Conversion: Website Visitors into Customers

Conversion-rate optimization (CRO) is the art and science of converting website visitors into leads and valued customers. You don’t just need website visitors; you need new customers even if you don’t double your sales.

Marketing & Business Development

Digital Word-of-Mouth Marketing for Medical Tourism Industry

“Word-of-mouth” is the best marketing tactics as consumers rely on the opinions of family members and friends to make buying decisions. When a patient has no references available from friends and family they will search online and “crowd-source” the task.

Destination Spotlight

Medical Tourism Gives Added Meaning to Made in Japan

Move over consumer electronics and fuel-efficient automobiles and make way for medical tourism, Japan has taken on added meaning. A growing demand for timely and cost-effective medical procedures and treatments, hospitals and travel agencies in Japan are ready.

Destination Spotlight

Caribbean Nations Eye Universal Healthcare

Countries toward universal healthcare in Caribbean nations must consider historical, social and economic content. Universal healthcare refers to coverage in which all legal residents of a nation have access to basic services administered by the government.

Healthcare Reform - Legal & Policy

Mitigating Uncertainties of Cross-Border Litigation through Alternative Dispute Resolution

Medical travel facilitators (MTFs) routinely engage in contractual relationships with a variety of parties. Clients seeking medical treatment outside their home countries, heath plans, employers, in-country patient liaisons, and travel agents.

Editorial

University of Miami Hospital Helipad Speeds Access to Specialty Care

Excellent healthcare is a matter of timeliness and expertise, patients with acute healthcare receive the specialized interventions. To optimize those outcomes for patients with an acute healthcare needs is a new helipad atop University of Miami Hospital.

Destination Spotlight

Maternity Tourism Like Stealing Candy from a Baby

Giving birth in the United Kingdom is like stealing candy from a baby, according to a report by National Health Service. Most of the women had to be admitted and allowed to give birth on the NHS, as their pregnancies were too close for them to fly home.

Destination Spotlight

Peace of Mind Families Turn to Medical Tourism for Alzheimers Care

Thailand attract medical tourism patients who suffer from Alzheimer’s to facilities that offer inexpensive, better care. They also serve for those debilitated by long-term memory loss while providing peace of mind to their families.

Destination Spotlight

German Exports Grandmas and Grandpas Seek Homes Abroad

The WHO calls Germany a “demographic time bomb,” almost a third of all Germans by 2050 will climb to 65 years or older. Many will need nursing care, a situation made more troublesome because nursing care is looked as a less than- attractive profession.‍