Belarus health resorts bounce back
According to the National Centre for Recuperation and Health Resort Treatment, Belarusian health resorts and medical spas have had a good 2022. The resorts...
What exactly is Health Tourism?
Can you, and should you, promote your offering as a ‘wellness’ service? From a marketing point of view, the critical issue is the expectations...
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...
World Medical Tourism Day: Today’s the day!
“It’s safer than you think” is the theme of this year’s World Medical Tourism Day, which takes place today, 1 April 2015.
Despite its staggering...
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...
The latest NHS hospital data may show where future demand for medical tourism lies
The latest data on hospital activity within the UK National Health Service provides a useful indicator of where future demand for medical tourism may...
Perspectives from the IMTJ Medical Travel Summit 2019
Healthcare consultant, Dr Sahir Shaikh, attended this year’s IMTJ Medical Travel Summit, held in Berlin. He shares his takeaway thoughts on the Summit; identifies...
Language barriers: A challenge for optimal health care abroad?
Dr Heidi Kaspar, is currently conducting ethnographic research on international medical travel to Delhi. In this article she highlights the importance and role of...
Predicting the Brexit effect on EU healthcare travel
Arrangements for the provision of specific cross border healthcare services between the UK and the Republic of Ireland should not be affected by Brexit…in...
Arrests in US$145m scam targeting Chinese medical travellers
Chinese police have arrested 132 people across China connected to just one US$145 million medical tourism scam. Ian Youngman investigates the latest news on...
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