UK: Patients benefit from reverse medical tourism
UK: Patients benefit from reverse medical tourism Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:35:06 GMT When there are a substantial number of people from one country or group of countries, rather than them going overseas to get treatment, dentists and others have been setting up clinics in the UK to target that market. This has happened to […]
MEXICO: New medical tourism hospital in Puerto Peñasc
MEXICO: New medical tourism hospital in Puerto Peñasc Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:44:50 GMT Sandy Beach Medical Center and US hospital group AMERIMED have joined forces to build a full service medical tourism hospital in Puerto Peñasc. Puerto Peñasco is a city in the Northwest of the Mexican state of Sonora, 100 km from the […]
TAIWAN: New medical tourism service offers aerial tours of Taiwan
TAIWAN: New medical tourism service offers aerial tours of Taiwan Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:48:21 GMT A Taipei-based healthcare company has launched a partnership with Aerospace Industrial Development in Taiwan, to offer new medical tourism services that include aerial tours in a small seven-seat plane. Show 101 Royal Health Care, part of the Show Chwan […]
QATAR: Compulsory health insurance for all visitors to Qatar
QATAR: Compulsory health insurance for all visitors to Qatar Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:55:30 GMT All visitors to Qatar are now required to buy health insurance from Seha for the duration of their stay in the country as part of their visa and entry formalities. The national insurance scheme now covers all Qataris in the […]
CANADA: SFU medical tourism research featured in award-winning radio series
CANADA: SFU medical tourism research featured in award-winning radio series Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:04:05 GMT Valorie Crooks at Simon Fraser University in Canada was thrilled to hear that CBC radio reporter Debbie Wilson won a major national award for a three-part series on medical tourism. Wilson’s one-year investigation into the impact of medical tourism […]
UK and USA: Cinderella surgery and vampire facials
UK and USA: Cinderella surgery and vampire facials Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:26:48 GMT Medical tourism needs to understand that there are trends in cosmetic surgery that it must keep up with to compete. And new trends are often how domestic cosmetic surgery businesses fight off the potential of medical tourism. The latest two are […]
MALAYSIA: Medical tourism agents should become patient navigators
MALAYSIA: Medical tourism agents should become patient navigators Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:21:49 GMT Meghann Ormond of Wageningen University has presented an academic paper, on Academia.edu:“Intermediaries, facilitators, agents, guides: Steering international medical travel to Malaysia” and presented it at the World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama in July. The thesis is that Malaysian authorities desire […]
CANADA: Academics urge Canadians to consider risks of medical tourism
CANADA: Academics urge Canadians to consider risks of medical tourism Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:25:32 GMT A new website from Canadian academics specializing in medical tourism research warns potential Canadian medical tourists to carefully consider the risks and rewards of medical tourism. SFU’s Medical Tourism Research Group has launched a free consumer website Medicaltourismandme.com, just […]
EUROPE: Cross border healthcare expands to other countries
EUROPE: Cross border healthcare expands to other countries Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:29:54 GMT The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and the European Union (EU) have incorporated 26 EU legal acts into the European Economic Area Agreement, including measures relating to cross-border healthcare The EFTA member states, which are part of the EEA but outside […]
USA: Millions more Americans now have health insurance
USA: Millions more Americans now have health insurance Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:34:18 GMT The uninsured rate in the U.S. fell to 13.4% in the second quarter of 2014. This is the lowest quarterly average recorded since Gallup and Healthways began tracking the percentage of uninsured Americans in 2008. The previous low point was 14.4% […]