Why isn’t medical travel insured?
Ian Youngman from IMTJ continues his review of the use and availability of specialist travel insurance for medical tourism. Globally only a handful of...
Government and providers must work together to drive a destination
At MIHTE 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia demonstrated how collaboration between a government and providers of both medical and non-medical service providers can deliver...
If medical tourism is all about cost, why so many luxury destinations?
Is medical tourism... healthcare for the “financially challenged”? The sector is dominated by the concept of frugality and low cost. In his Second Opinion...
Balancing medical tourism and public health
How do governments balance the sometimes conflicting interests of a medical tourism program with the needs of a public healthcare system? Can an investment...
Building a hospital rarely leads to patients beating a path to your door
For emerging destinations, new hospital and facility development is sometimes seen as the route to success in medical tourism. But governments and investors need...
The phenomenal growth of infertility treatment in South Africa
Jenny Currie, the founder and owner of the baby2mom Egg Donation Agency, provides the background to the growth of egg donation services and infertility...
The future plans for Cyprus as a medical tourism centre
Cyprus was one of the first entrants into the European medical tourism sector, and, at an early stage, the country established a national initiative...
What is it all about?
The EU Directive on Cross Border Healthcare has been described as “…the most significant and wide-ranging European health legislation in a generation.” The deadline...
Participate in IMJT’s price transparency survey
As the medical tourism market develops, there’s an increasing need to provide reliable, well-researched data on aspects of the international patient market.
Price plays an...
An update on medical tourism development in Israel
Sharon Robinson, a member of the marketing team at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem provides an overview of Israel’s inbound international patient business.
The evolution...
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