Articles and features on medical tourism and medical travel

Our articles and features are written by some of the leading experts on medical & health tourism.

A health check for your hospital and medical tourism servicesVivek Shukla, Healthcare Strategy and Business Development Consultant, suggests that hospitals involved in medical tourism would benefit from a health check and he identifies some of the symptoms...
Spotlight on EMTC 2010Caroline Ratner spoke to Dr Uwe Klein, Chairman of the forthcoming European Medical Travel Conference. There are around 70 speakers and more than 100 companies will be attending the conference which...
Is there more noise from the industry than enthusiasm from the market?Constantine Constantinides from healthcare Cybernetics raises concerns about the state of the medical tourism market and suggests that the medical tourism industry is too busy blowing its own trumpet...
The role of international hospital accreditation in medical tourismCaroline Ratner from IMTJ asked Brian Johnson, Chief Executive of the Australian Council of Healthcare Standards (ACHSI) and ACHS International (ACHSI) about international hospital accreditation and...
Cruise ship medical tourism: Will it sink or swim?Caroline Ratner from IMTJ spoke to Dr Uwe Klein of Health Care Strategy International GmbH about cruise ship medical tourism. Medical tourists will soon be able to have medical treatment and...
Shaping and managing your medical tourism product and service offeringsMaria K Todd, CEO at Mercury Healthcare Advisory Group looks at the influences on the medical tourism product and service offering, and how a healthcare organization can build and manage its product...
The top ten hospitals for medical tourism: Fact or fiction?This week saw the publication of the Top Top 10 Worlds Best Hospitals for medical tourists by the Medical Travel Quality Alliance (MTQA). It has raised some eyebrows in medical tourism circles and...
Health Tourism....in Brightest AfricaDr Constantine Constantinides looks at the development of health tourism in Africa, and whether Africa is in itself a destination for health tourism rather than an exporter of health tourists.
The outlook for medical tourism in 2010Keith Pollard from Treatment Abroad looks back at 2009, and shares his vision of where medical tourism is going in 2010. Reality bites in the medical tourism market.... boom or bust?.......regional...
Why medical tourism needs facilitatorsFollowing our recent article on How can patients judge quality in medical tourism?, Caroline Ratner spoke to Mike Silford, who runs Perfect Profiles, the longest running facilitation company for...
European Directive on cross-border healthcare encounters oppositionAt a meeting of European health ministers last week, Spain gained the support of six other countries, including Greece, Poland and Lithuania to block the ratification of the draft European Directive...
The forgotten medical tourism destinationIan Youngman from IMTJ looks at on one of the worlds leading destinations for medical travelers which seems to have been forgotten in the new world of medical tourism.
An academics view of medical tourismDr Neil Lunt, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy in Management at the University of York gave an academic perspective on medical tourism to Caroline Ratner of IMTJ about medical tourism at the recent...
How can patients judge quality in medical tourism?We hear much hype around the medical tourism world about quality. Every hospital, clinic, healthcare destination and medical tourism web site claims to offer the highest quality healthcare, often...
Investing in medical tourism in MauritiusCaroline Ratner spoke to Nitin Pandea, Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences Cluster at the Board of Investment, Invest Mauritius Global. Nitin Pandea talked to us about investment in Medical...
The development of inbound and outbound medical tourism in the UKCaroline Ratner spoke to Nigel Mercer, one of the UKs leading consultant plastic surgeons and current President of BAAPS (British Association of Aesthetic and Plastic Surgeons) and asked him for his...
The importance of social media and the web in medical tourismIan Youngman from IMTJ considers the lessons that the medical tourism sector can learn from a recent survey of online behavior and use of social media.
Health tourism A gateway to fraud and corruption?Caroline Ratner talked to Paul Vincke, President of the European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Network. The recent EHFCN Annual Conference in Edinburgh was themed on the subject of Health tourism ...
Medical tourism: Legal, decent, honest and truthful?Ian Youngman from IMTJ considers some of the questions raised by the growth of medical tourism, and how the medical, scientific, business and political communities in several countries have started...
Medical tourism: The Resentment Factor and the Ripple EffectDr Constantine Constantinides suggest how health tourism development can act as a powerful agent of change and force for the general good, highlights the role of the Resentment Factor and the Ripple...