Taipei Veterans General Hospital is one of the few hospitals with an independent orthopedic department, and surgical department. Taipei Veterans General Hospital developed the seasoned orthopedic medical team in Taiwan treating patients with their symptoms.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Middle East travel crackdown leads Arabs to head towards Asia for holiday gateways. Low-cost medical treatment in Asian facilities like Bumrungrad compared to European or North American hospitals diminish the allure.
NTUH focuses on academic research and clinical practice including oocytes cryopreservation, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Many patients from the U.S., Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, The Philippines seek fertility treatment at NTUH.
The General Health Council (GHC) in Mexico is a decentralized organization reporting directly to the president. GHC established criteria for medical institutions and organizations and created the National Certification System for Medical Care Organizations.
Jordan means a lot of things to different people, healthcare aficionados are defining the Arab kingdom in Western Asia. The World Bank ranked Jordan among the top five destinations in the world for medical tourism and first in the region.
The Medical Tourism Association® has been providing a voice for healthcare providers, insurance companies, overseas nations. A partnership between the Medical Tourism Association® and Squire Sanders has prioritized research to determine the potential cost savings.
Most employers confused about the Obamacare, understand that offering health insurance to their employees makes good business sense. Rising costs and evolving complexities four years into the President’s domestic healthcare policy made things clear to employers.
Faced with long lines for treatments that sometimes stretch over a year, many Canadians are choosing medical tourism procedures. Canadians feel lack of available resources or appropriate technology, a desire to return more quickly to their lives.
The Department of Health and Human Services unleashed President Obama’s chief domestic policy initiative at the start of the year. Obamacare has enabled some Americans to afford health insurance for the first time, the Affordable Care Act was supposed to do.
Key drivers for patients considering medical exchange options are quality, familiarity and price, all taken into consideration. Indicators include national and international accreditations, certification for physicians and specialists and “best in class” reviews.
The idea of combining medical procedures with family vacations to offer “medical excellence with a tropical flair. The initiative has attracted patients primarily from South and Central America.
Science Fiction Brought to Life If body part and organ replication sounds like something from the realm of science fiction. 3-D printing doesn’t have advance use in the mass production of medical devices more than just theory.
Governments and hospitals in Europe have only recently begun promoting their services on an international level. Working Americans and health insurance have been linked since the start of World War II, when the federal government capped wages.
Taiwan has an international following to accommodate, one made up of people who want to taste the vibrant night markets. Taiwan is defined by the international patients seeking medical care system that boasts quality, inexpensive prices and hospitable service.
Platelet-rich plasma therapy is a treatment used today for a variety of sports injuries and replaced PRP as a bone-healing agent. Recently PRP become popular for treating ailments resulting from golf and tennis elbows and knee and joint problems.
Florida home to Disney World, the Kennedy Space Center, is a proven tourism site for millions of travelers from around the world. The exposure to existing hospitals and treatment centers like Cleveland Clinic in Orlando and the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville.
3-D printing technology has been used to recreate a lot of things from jewelry and clothing to guns and even fruit. 3-D printing can claim to have saved life from the throes of tracheomalcia, makes the trachea so weak that it becomes difficult to breath.
Famous for pristine beaches, ancient Buddhist temples and a mecca for backpackers, tourism fuels 10 percent of Thailand's GDP. The immediate effects on medical travel are minimal unless of course the government has set restrictions to that particular country.
MasterCard ranks Dubai seventh behind travel luminaries of the Middle East can now boast the fortunes of hosting a Medical Tourism. Dubai has grown from a sleepy Gulf port in the desert to become a crossroad of international commerce ad medical hotspot.
The Medical Tourism Association has been providing a voice to healthcare providers, insurance companies, overseas nations, hospitals. Qualified Americans paying into Medicare for decades and now living overseas are only asking for services from a social program.
