Cooperation: the key to developing a system of global medical tourism to overcome barriers

There are many issues within the medical tourism industry, that can be overcome with greater communication from all parties. Senior academics from Bowling Green...

Is your self-pay strategy ready to capitalise?

In an article first published in HealthcareMarkets UK, independent consultant Richard Gregory concludes his series on maximising self-pay with a look back over the...

Indonesia to boost inbound medical travel

The Indonesia Medical Tourism Board (IMTB) is seeking to boost inbound medical tourism as the country prepares to open. Ian Youngman looks at the...

A new study reveals the real numbers of American medical tourism

A new study “Medical Tourism Services Available to Residents of the United States” published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine casts doubts on...

Lessons from the front line

Alex Youssef, doctor and healthcare entrepreneur, created a UK business start-up focused on medical travel from countries like the UK, Europe ,India, Thailand, Turkey...

How to lose a hospital in eight easy years!

Considering investing in a medical tourism venture? Planning the next healthcare city? “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it...“...

How can patients make an informed choice?

There's much discussion and hype around the medical tourism world about “quality”. Every hospital, clinic, healthcare destination and medical tourism web site claims to...

Medical tourism clusters are not in the right league

Over a series of two articles, Constantine Constantinides of Healthcare Cybernetics, gives his view on how health tourism clusters need stronger, more systematically organised...

Can Poland city Lublin co-ordinate regional destinations?

Lublin hosted the Eastern Europe Health and Medical Tourism Summit last month. It was held to promote the city and Poland as a medical...

Research identifies four trends that will help medical tourism

International health travel by patients has been impacted greatly by the pandemic of 2020, but there is cause for optimism. Professor David Vequist, founder...