The WMT & GHC is proud to announce the Council for Korea Medicine Overseas Promotion (CKMP) and Korea Health Industry Development Institute as the premiere Diamond Sponsor for the 2nd Annual World Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress in 2009!
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 launched the first social network in medical tourism called Medical Tourism City. The medical tourism social network is your global healthcare community and will allow thousands of people involved in global healthcare, medical tourism.
Today the Medical Tourism Association is launching the first social network for the medical tourism and global healthcare community. Our goal is to provide a virtual city where hospitals, medical tourism facilitators, technology providers can all come together.
The Medical Tourism Association has announced a FAM Familiarization trip to Jordan on July 14th-17th 2009. The goal of the trip is an introduction to the high quality of healthcare in Jordan, as it is known as having some of the highest quality healthcare.
MTA Members WorldMed Assist, Premiere Medical Travel and Patients without Borders joined participated as speakers and exhibitor in the MTA Pavilion. Our purpose was to educate the health insurance agents, consultants and insurance companies in California.
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.
The number of people suffering from obesity has almost tripled during the last two decades. Since bariatric operations result in significant long-term weight loss, they are rapidly becoming among the most common procedures in North America.
In recent years, brain tumor removal through smaller and less invasive techniques has become possible. These newer “keyhole” approaches a majority of both benign and malignant brain tumors, including those that arise from the brain itself.
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.
Medical tourism websites and marketing departments tout customer service excellence but how many of us have objective data to prove it? Do we take the time to determine how we provide excellent customer service and do we even know what it means?
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.
In an economy such as ours we need to make each patient opportunity count. That means being quicker smarter and more caring than our competition.
We are happy to introduce a new column in this issue of the Medical Tourism Magazine about Sustainability. As we make great strides into new programs for international healthcare development we need to take a look at whether these programs will last.
Sustainability is becoming more critical globally and presents a baseline requirement for the healthcare industry just like in any other industry. Is it really all about going green, it really is all about competing in a new world.
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.
There’s NO other endeavor on the face of the Earth more dependent on Trust than Healthcare. If you’re in the business, and you’ve compromised your Trust, you’re Dead in the Water.
The true value of health of ourselves or our environment can never be measured in dollars or consumables. The costs from the loss of serenity harmony and quality of life are steadily rising in correlation to our own self neglect.
