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Can hidden auditors help improve customer service in medical tourism

Elizabeth Ziemba, President of Medical Tourism Training, Inc looks at the role of the mystery shopper in medical tourism, and how a Customer Service...

Why would you want to get into the medical tourism market?

In his Second Opinion column, Dr Constantine Constantinides from healthCare cybernetics provides advice to potential medical tourism entrepreneurs about entering and understanding the medical...

New report on medical tourism in Jamaica

Jamaica is taking a logical approach to developing medical tourism by developing a road map to define the country's priorities. A report prepared by...

Smarter technology: medical tourism in Thailand

Chiang Mai in Thailand will serve as a test bed for new ways of applying information and communication technology to make optimum use of...

Slovenia seeks to improve health quality to attract foreign patients

DNV is supporting Slovenian healthcare authorities in their drive to improve patient safety and quality of care. The first two certificates to the DNV...

Mauritius, Bahamas : A tale of two islands in medical tourism

Two islands, one off Africa and the other off America, have differing fortunes in medical tourism. Mauritius expects the number of foreign patients seeking...

South Korea wants to expand medical tourism beyond cosmetic surgery

The South Korean government is happy that cosmetic surgery attracts many medical tourists who spend more than normal travellers. But it also wants to...

How medical tourism can help Europe fight chronic obesity

Obesity should be formally recognised as a chronic disease, campaigners urge, saying Europe is in the grip of an obesity epidemic with half its...

Medical tourism and policy implications for health systems in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore

A new article in Globalization and Health looks at the impact of medical tourism on the health systems of Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. Globalization...

Missouri, Oklahama and New York see opportunities in domestic medical tourism

A study for the Missouri Hospital Association into domestic medical tourism suggests that medical travel created over 3,000 jobs and generated $124 million in...