Physically large or obese patients and bariatric surgery patients are at greater risk as medical tourists.Receiving doctors or hospitals and medical tourism companies must be ready to address more than the usual needs of medical tourists, or be prepared to risk the success of their medical tourism business because patients are harmed. Read more…
Are you killing your online reputation and don’t know it?
Like it or not, in medical tourism your online reputation defines you as a professional and as a business.
Ignoring it may be putting your professional life in jeopardy. Branding, especially how to build a brand, is a popular subject at medical tourism conferences. But Read more…
The medical tourism industry is finally showing signs of settling in as a reasonable health care option. Here are three trends that are steering the industry in this direction and will affect medical travel choices on an individual level and in policy decisions.
Yet other trends indicate there are still major issues to Read more…
As Cuban medicine has been in the news recently, some wonder if Cuba has become any closer to being a viable medical travel destination.
Venezuelan President Chavez has been treated for cancer in Cuba several times in the past few years. Cuban scientists are engaged in late-stage clinical trials in Europe for Heberprot-P, considered a potentially revolutionary medicine for diabetic foot ulcers.
The current issue of the New England Medical Journal presents a review of medical care in Cuba and the strengths of the Cuban health care system.
Authors Drs. Campion and Morrissey write in the NEJM that Cuba’s health care system has many admirable qualities, especially in its focus on prevention, primary care and community monitoring. They say “despite its limited economic resources, its health care system has Read more…
Medical tourism is opening doors to the world for Asia’s hospitals, believes Vishal Bali, CEO of Fortis Healthcare.
Given the Fortis purchase of a significant share of the Parkway hospitals last month, we wondered what this might mean for Asian and global health care.
In an interview with MTQUA, Bali gives us his view of the future of health care. “There is a decentralization of providers from just being in certain regions… Asian hospital groups are now Read more…
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