Is medical tourism experiencing a shift from ‘have to’ to ‘want to’
Dr Constantine Constantinides from healthCare cybernetics puts forward a contrary view on the future of medical travel. Economic recession does not provide a boost...
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...
Hong Kong: Maintaining the most efficient healthcare system in the world
In an article recently published in Healthcare Markets international, SR Dinesh, Vice President and Business Head of Healthcare at Frost & Sullivan, Asia Pacific,...
Will transparent pricing encourage US medical tourism?
In the ongoing move towards a patient-driven healthcare system in the USA, the Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing significant new...
nteractive maps can help medical travel destinations
A GIS mapping project has been undertaken in the USA by a team from Colorado State University. It assesses the potential of using interactive mapping...
Targeting outbound US patients? Understand American healthcare first
In November this year, Americans vote for their next President. During the election campaign there has been much discussion on US healthcare and the...
It takes more than two to tango in medical tourism
Irving Stackpole from Stackpole & Associates looks at the challenges faced by Argentina, an emerging destination for medical tourism.
International medical travel was the focus...
Keith Pollard talks on why infertility tourism could be recession proof
Keith Pollard from Treatment Abroad highlights the increasing trend in “infertility tourism”, looks at recent European research into the sector and some of the...
Leaps and bounds in Mexico’s reproductive tourism
Dr. Carolin Schurr (University of Zürich) and Dr. Heather Walmsley (University of British Columbia) spent January 2014 interviewing key stakeholders in the growing reproductive...
Does medical tourism benefit countries?
Ian Youngman, author of “MedicalTourism: Facts and Figures 2014” looks at the criticisms that are aimed at the medical tourism sector and the opposition...
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