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Patient Experience & Hospitality

Friends And Family Roles and Responsibilities Abroad

A healthcare organization wanting to raise the bar to attract patients from around the world by offering innovation procedures. As the industry grows, the competitiveness of international patient programs will be distinguished by the global affiliations.

Destination Spotlight

Afghanistan Helping Citizens Find Treatment

Years of war and crisis damaged the health infrastructure in Afghanistan which leads to limited capacity, few trained professionals. After years of struggle and confronted with mounting poor facilities, the Afghanistan Ministry initiated to improve healthcare.

Accreditation & Certification

How to Exponentially Increase Your Influence

Leaders frequently make miscalculations in trying to influence change, as they often bet on a single source of influence. Latest research shows that the main variable in success or failure is not which sources of influence leaders choose.

Industry News

Bupa Presents: Centers of Healthcare Excellence & Global Health Insurance

Bupa International and the Medical Tourism Association recently teamed up for a successfully co-sponsored webcast. One of the challenges employers and insurers have experienced is identifying centers of excellence and building a quality hospital network.

Industry News

MTA Member Interview :: Julie Conner of GLOBAL Medical Tourism Facilitators

Today we will be interviewing Julie Conner of GLOBAL Medical Tourism Facilitators, a Member of the Medical Tourism Association. Julie is co-founder of GLOBAL Medical Tourism Facilitators along with doing her own personal medical facilitation at GLOBAL.

Industry News

Breaking it Down: Understanding Medical Care for Russian Speaking Patients

A Russian speaking patient is different from all other patients in the world as he remembers the Highest Standard Soviet Medicine. This patient is extremely demanding, looking for the best value offer, for the most comfortable and convenient conditions.

Industry News

Fecal Transplants: Gut Feelings for Medical Tourism Patients

Fecal matter isn't a load of crap to medical tourism patients willing to travel to the Northwest corner of the United States. To these medical tourism patients, a fecal transplant was anything, but a pain in the behind as it actually saved their lives.

Industry News

Belize Puts Best Foot Forward via Medical Tourism

Leading government officials from the Caribbean nation recently met with MTA representatives to discuss packaging health. Belizean officials confirmed that the nation just completed a feasibility study to assess strengths to build its medical tourism foundation.

Industry News

Georgia Republic Takes First Steps on Road toward Medical Tourism

As democracy continues to take shape in Georgia, business, healthcare, and government leaders are exploring ways to fit medical tourism. MedTourGeorgia began to unearth some this potential during a daylong workshop, presented in partnership with the MTA.

Industry News

Mexico: Dentists Have Medical Tourism Training to Sink Teeth In

Certification helps healthcare and hospitality professionals seeking practical training to manage the international patient-care process. It fills a growing need for qualified and experienced skills at hospitals now focusing on medical tourism in Mexico.

Industry News

Medical Tourism: Nicaragua no Longer a Menacing Headline

The nation's tourism bureau is making other news as both a medical tourism destination and a retirement vestige for baby boomers.‍ The planned development is one aspect of Nicaragua's growing participation in the global medical tourism industry.

Industry News

Free Medical Tourism Facilitator Webcast :: Tuesday July 2, 2013

Medical tourism facilitators have the unique responsibility to navigate patients through their medical procedures safely and securely. Today's medical tourism facilitators have to build meaningful relationships with healthcare providers in the region.

Industry News

IVF Combines Vacation with Affordable Path to Pregnancy

The frustrations of trying to get pregnant have forced more than one woman to cross the line, past their national borders. As fertility costs soar in the U.S. and across the globe, IVF for women is a fraction of the price in foreign countries.

Industry News

Turkish Unrest Puts Medical Tourism in Unstable Condition

Visiting foreign travelers recovering from treatment or procedures would be hard-pressed to look past the tumultuous street. The Turkish government has vowed to end protests it says were co-opted by extremists, the park is home to hundreds of young people.

Industry News

Medical Tourism: Nueterra not just in Kansas any more

As self-insured employers hop on the medical tourism bandwagon, an American healthcare management company is finding a good deal. Nueterra Global Alliance has been referring patients to international destinations, where they find top quality healthcare.

Industry News

Dubai Medical Tourism Strategy Moves Forward

Health officials in Dubai have launched a strategy for making the Arab nation a top destination for medical tourism. Sustainable development plan incorporates prevention and awareness; easy access to health services; quality; and investment and competitiveness.

Economics & Investments

Role and Contribution of Medical Tourism toward Indian Economy: A Relative Study of the Prominent Participants in Hospital and Hospitality

India today has copious opportunities to compete with developed nations and build a quality healthcare system of its own. This escalation is facilitated by the corporate and hospitality sectors involved in medical care.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Health and Wellness Tourism Today

According to the WHO health is a state of physical mental and social well-being and not merely the complete absence of disease. Health and wellness involves several well-being dimensions including physical, mental, social, sexual, emotional, cultural, spiritual.

Destination Spotlight

Strategy to Increase Brand Value of Indian Hospitals in International Markets

Indian hospitals have been struggling to compete against international hospitals to attract patients at various forums. India has many hospitals and clinics that offer treatments in nearly every medical sector including cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery.

Editorial

Global Smile: World-Class Dental Services alongside Environment Consciousness

In the digital age, change is instant, development and improvement are lightning fast, and access to everything is readily on-tap. With vision and determination, the finest global resources are increasingly woven into world-class facilities across many fields.