Google retires Google Health, scrapping plans for “global patient records”
Google has announced that it plans to “retire” Google Health in January 2012. It’s a blow to those in the medical tourism world who...
Why you should believe your customers actions not their claims.
Low Resolution Innovation Tests” highlights the problem faced by anyone who is considering investment in the medical tourism business.
A recent article in Harvard Business...
What have we learned from the gold rush of medical tourism?
Last year, I blogged about “Medical tourism...lessons from the California gold rush”. It’s taken me a while to write the postscript to this, but...
Cross-border healthcare could cause a surge of patient numbers from abroad
Will European hospitals see a surge in patient numbers following the approval of the EU Directive on Cross-Border Healthcare by the European Parliament last...
What exactly is a medical tourist anyway?
Back in May 2008, I blogged on “McKinsey and the medical tourism numbers game..." and commented on their strange way of counting (or not...
Can the patient ever be sure that the treatment will work?
A significant proportion of medical tourism and medical travel is driven by people seeking established and proven treatments in countries where the cost of...
Is medical tourism the solution?
A recent article from McKinsey International highlights the magnitude of the challenge that leaders of governments in the developed countries are going to have...
Is medical tourism the solution?
A recent article from McKinsey International highlights the magnitude of the challenge that leaders of governments in the developed countries are going to have...
Treating tourists is a far more mature industry, what can we learn from them?
Whereas much of the attention in the medical travel sector is focused on medical tourism (i.e. where the primary reason for travel is some...
How the NHS is posed to become a major figure in medical tourism
Where do you think the international patients' centre shown in the picture is? Singapore? Thailand? Malaysia? India? Korea? Read on to find out...
Where do...
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