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Opening Doors to China: Medical Tourism Offers Tools for Trade

Chinese visiting the U.S. make a stop in New England either for the lobster, white sandy beaches or brilliant fall foliage. The Maine thing is about the Chinese middle class explosion, prompted business leaders from all corners of the globe to head to east.

Patient Experience & Hospitality

Medical Tourism: Traveling as an International Patient

For Medical tourism, either for emergency or non-emergency procedures, patients require a meticulous advance planning. The culture, language is changed in the new country, also the patient should hold all the original documents of the resident country.

Destination Spotlight

EMC2-Net: Caribbean Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Travel

Carribean countries possess developing healthcare systems with variable service lines, human resources and technology. Modern medicine relies on a combination of excellent clinicians and advanced technologies.

Editorial

3-D Printing: Beyond Skin Deep

Non-biological material enables doctors and medical students to practice surgeries by using life-sized models of 3-D printed tissue. In prosthetics, a company called e-NABLE, developed a lightweight plastic robotic hand for children who lacked motor skills.

Destination Spotlight

Confidence Builder: Medical Tourism Grows Hair Transplant Following

Despite getting monetary crises rocked the European Union, medical tourism is gradually building a following in Greece. Hair transplants are becoming commonplace medical tourism procedures across the globe, as per International Hair Restoration Surgery.

Destination Spotlight

Florida Surging as Medical Tourism Destination

Medical tourism is a natural fit, and Florida is serious about becoming a global destination for patients and health-seekers. The Florida Department of Health is driving the vision for Florida to become the healthiest state in the nation.

Destination Spotlight

Medical Tourism: Orlando's Emerging Attraction

Orlando has another attraction that has its own set of stories and memories apart from Walt Disney World, Universal Studios. Florida hospitals including those here in Orlando offer some of the best healthcare in the world for the state’s increasing population.

Destination Spotlight

Magical Realism: Colombia Get a Leg Up from Medical Tourism

Healthcare consumers fro Latin America, the U.S., and Canada looking for medical tourism procedures are opting for Columbia. What was once a destination for drugs and violence, undergone a massive social and economic transformation.

Healthcare Development & Architecture

Healthcare Organizations and Integration: What does Future Hold?

Healthcare organizations are changing dramatically like hospitals integrating programs, expanding services, managing budgets. Capacity building strengthens an organization’s skills, leadership, capabilities, processes and resources.‍

Destination Spotlight

Medical Tourism Opportunities in Chinese Healthcare Market

China's annual healthcare expenditure is projected to grow at an average rate of 11.8 percent a year from 2014-2018. The Chinese healthcare market is fueled by the proliferation of lifestyle diseases, changing population demographics, increased healthcare spending.

Destination Spotlight

Medical Tourism: Easy Steps to Penetrate Nigeria Patient Markets

The scarce healthcare resources are spent on controlling non-communicable diseases and decreasing the maternity mortality rate.‍ In Nigeria, medical tourism to India for healthcare generated more than $260 million in spending in 2012.

Destination Spotlight

Medical Tourism in Thailand: When Treatment Costs and Starbucks Clash

Thailand's medical tourism policy, the same strategy that attracted the patient in the first place and countless other wealthy foreigners. Some economists mentioned that Thailand's healthcare system has become a slum for the poor.

Marketing & Business Development

Medical Tourism Websites: Lead Generation

Everyone talks about lead generation, but you have to offer consumers something that makes them want to share contact information. The promise of pricing was the “carrot” to incentivize them to leave their contact details.‍

Destination Spotlight

Germany has Designs on Arab Medical Tourism Patients

Wealthy Arabs traditionally take advantage of well-connected flights to Germany to avoid the blistering summer heat at home. They go for medical treatments like oncology, neurosurgery, cardiology, preventive care as well.

Destination Spotlight

Medical Tourism: U.S. Hospitals Forge Foreign Relations with Middle East

Healthcare providers in Los Angeles and those in other cities of the U.S. have had their doors open to medical tourism patients. Patients from the Middle East can be expected to spend more than other foreign nationals and cater to all shapes and sizes.

Accreditation & Certification

Medical Tourism: Travel Agents Rerouting Business Plans

Around 28 million travelers visited Jordan in 2014, 250,000 of whom were medical tourism patients seeking treatment. Each patient traveled with two companions, boosting the total count of medical tourists to half-million and more than JD1 billion in revenue.

Destination Spotlight

Ahlan wa Sahlan: Burqinies Yakisoba and Medical Tourism

Halal Holidays are introducing Muslims a chance to let their hair down, spend money and relax according to Islamic values. Tourism generated by observant Muslims is widening, from the streets of New York, where the famous rice and chicken dish is in trend.

Accreditation & Certification

Developing a Competitive Model for Medical Tourism

Healthcare consumers are willing to travel great distances for advanced services at reduced costs, high-quality service. Health tourism has opened doors for developing countries to promote their hospitals and doctors who can boast low-cost and high-quality.‍

Accreditation & Certification

WellHotel: Puerto Rico Enterprises Certified for Medical Tourism

The Medical Tourism Association® worked closely with the international healthcare community and stakeholders who purchase services. Puerto Rico medical tourism corporation is the midst of an aggressive campaign to market the healthcare services.

Accreditation & Certification

Medical Tourism Training: Dominican Republic Ready to Play Ball

Medical tourism is not a simple task and not always about providing an affordable treatment but sometimes more than that. Many factors can influence the patient experience, but our main focus must always concern quality, safety and outcomes.