First hospital receives QHA Trent international hospital accreditation
GMC Hospital Ajman in the United Arab Emirates became the first hospital in the world to be accredited by the new international accreditor QHA...
Ukraine gaining in popularity for health tourism
Medicare Europe is a British medical tourism agency that focuses on Eastern European countries for dental care, IVF, eye care and cosmetic surgery. It...
Millions spent on treatment abroad for Finnish patients
The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela) reimburses treatment aborad in EU and EEA countries, and in Switzerland if the same medical procedures are...
Barbados targets American women for fertility treatment
A recent survey of American women aged 25 to 45, by Barbados Fertility Centre found that most women who would consider In Vitro Fertilization...
Health tourism could boost Jamaica’s economy
A leading Jamaican cardiologist Dr Ernest Madu believes a number of Jamaica's health and economic problems could be solved if a proper infrastructure is...
Relaxation of rules on advertising may help medical tourism to Malaysia
After much pressure on the Malaysian government to remove advertising restrictions that were harming medical tourism, it has finally relented. Private hospitals and clinics...
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 changes in tourism will affect medical travel
Although many people in the business dislike the term ‘medical tourism', there is no getting away from the fact that it is a niche...
Many in Asia travel domestically for medical care
One in five households across 11 Asian countries say at least one member had to travel to another community for medical care in the...
JCI and Bupa join forces to assess hospital quality
Caroline Ratner of the IMTJ spoke to Dr Sneh Khemka, MBCHB MRCOPTH, Medical Director, of leading expatriate health insurer, BUPA International about the quality...
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