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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.‍

Editorial

Out of Africa Cures for Ailing Health Systems Found in Foreign Lands

All else had failed and most importantly, her kidney and plans for an organ transplant operation to begin a new life. Kenya has become a less-than-willing exporter of medical tourism to markets like India, South Africa, the U.S. and UK.

Industry News

Southwest Airlines Makes Medical Transportation Well Worth Trip

Without benefit of the Southwest Airlines Medical Transportation Grant Program, Toby Shaw might not travel from his home in Ohio. Southwest Airlines has been making travel one less burden for patients by providing more than $2.8 million in free medical flights.

Industry News

Kardashians: Middle East Millennial Women Keeping Up

Millennials worldwide born after 1980 have been swimming in an unprecedented sea of advertising whose shores have been narrowed. Companies worldwide are eager to build lifelong connections to these young consumers many of whom having prime income-earning years.

Industry News

Courting Medical Tourism: Match Made in Virgin Islands

Local government officials are encouraged that by courting medical tourism, a higher standard of healthcare can be conjoined. The economic objective is attracting more travelers to the Virgin Islands for medical care and that will boost our quality of services.

Industry News

French Revolution: Artificial Heart Installation Beats New Life

Hope beats eternal for the more than 100,000 patients with severe cardiovascular disease in the United States and Europe. French doctors say the artificial heart installed into a 75-year-old male can extend the life of a patient by five years.

Editorial

Medical Repatriation: A Foreign State of Confusion

Critics contend that hospitals and medical centers should be in the business of providing care and not deporting patients. Medical repatriation may sometime seem without boundaries, for even those with jobs and health insurance.