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International patient referral constitutes a major channel for health travel between different parts of the world. Hospitals partner with public or private healthcare groups or public healthcare ministries between countries allows patients to receive healthcare services in partner hospitals.
In Europe, the medical travel market has grown exponentially in recent years and many European countries are gradually becoming key players in the industry.
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.
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.
There seems to be some confusion in Britain about the exact uses of the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC). The EHIC provides travelers from the U.K. with healthcare at a reduced cost in other countries around Europe.
Medical malpractice causes enough confusion for doctors, lawyers and patients when it occurs locally. There are no universal laws that regulate how individual countries handle medical malpractice.
Medical Tourism is a rapidly growing global market sector in which patients travel to neighboring and even distant countries to receive medical treatment. Cross-border healthcare refers to a similar phenomenon within the European healthcare market.
It is inevitable that a United States citizen receiving medical care abroad will experience a less than satisfactory outcome. Because cost and access were primary motivations for the patient to seek care in another country.
It seems like every day you see the same statistics quoted in the news media, cited by candidates running for political office or in the trade press, that as many as 50 million Americans have no health insurance.
