Ian Youngman looks at the challenges of implementation of Cross-Border healthcare
Ian Youngman from IMTJ looks at some of the challenges facing the implementation of the EU Directive on Cross Border Healthcare, and whether governments...
Private Hospitals to boost medical tourism in Iceland?
Medical tourism could be about to grow in Iceland, as two new private hospitals, Iceland Healthcare in Reykjanesbaer and PrimaCare in Mosfellsbaer, are being...
Cyprus’ model for medical tourism is examined by Caroline Ratner
Caroline Ratner examines a model for medical tourism that has been developed by The American Institute of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (AIMIS Spine) operating...
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 Middle East countries stem the flow of outbound medical tourists?
Several Middle East countries have worked hard and been encouraged to see themselves as major medical tourism destinations. But despite development of new hospitals,...
The company that solved the US healthcare problem
The company that solved healthcare' is the ambitious title of a new book by John Torinus Jr., chairman of Wisconsin-based Serigraph, a 61-year-old plastic...
Fortis Healthcare expanding across the world
Fortis Healthcare has global ambitions. In October they agreed to buy the healthcare assets of Hong Kong-based Quality HealthCare Asia and had previously tried...
MediTour Expo announces its 2011 World Medical Tourism Conference
MediTour Expo announces its 2011 World Medical Tourism Conference: “Pioneering The Future in Global Healthcare.” The event will be held May 23-24, 2011, at...
A new study reveals the real numbers of American medical tourism
A new study “Medical Tourism Services Available to Residents of the United States” published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine casts doubts on...
Hungary promotes health and wellness tourism
According to Balázs Botos of the Ministry for National Economy the central message of the country for the forthcoming years will be "healing Hungary",...