Medical travel: Articles and features: 2009

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

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 dental tourism to Hungary about the important role of facilitators in medical tourism and their role in...
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 on cross-border healthcare. Caroline Ratner of the IMTJ spoke to industry experts Dr Uwe Klein of...
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 medical tourism workshop at the Infection 2009 conference in Birmingham.
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 matched with a claim of low cost treatment. Some healthcare providers invest vast sums of money in...
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 Tourism to Mauritius and the forthcoming BioHealth Mauritius 2009 which is being organised by the Board of...
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 views on medical tourism to and from the UK.
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 A gateway to fraud and corruption?. Around 100 delegates from 16 countries representing Ministries...
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 to put medical tourism under the microscope.
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 Effect in medical tourism.
Medical Tourism Associations: Where do we go from here?Caroline Ratner summarises the debate around last weeks article on Who owns medical tourism? Reaction to the MTA v IMTA legal action
Who owns medical tourism? Reaction to the MTA v IMTA legal actionCaroline Ratner from IMTJ looks at the recent legal dispute between the Medical Tourism Association www.medicaltourismassociation.com, the International Medical Travel Association www.intlmta.org and the International Medical Travel Association (Americas), industry reaction to the case and the...
The need for free and open debate in the health tourism industryAn article by Dr Constantine Constantinides that highlights the need for free and open debate within the health tourism industry. Dr Constantinides expresses concerns about the quality of opinion and the resulting debates within the industry, and suggests that is time for the establishment of an...
The changing face of medical tourism in AfricaLorraine Melvill, has been running Surgery & Safari, a South African medical tourism facilitator for over ten years. She talked to IMTJ about the changing face of African Medical Tourism and the importance of standardising Medical Tourism Associations and facilitators across the world.
The need for an MBA in Medical TourismThe IMTJ spoke to Robert Gerl about the new MBA programme in health and medical tourism. Robert is the coordinator and co-founder of the European joint-educational MBA programme on health & medical tourism, cross-border healthcare & health destination management at the University of Applied...
Meeting the need for travel insurance in the medical tourism marketCaroline Ratner from IMTJ spoke to Leila Wilcox, an award winning entrepreneur and co-founder of the Angelis Group, the first company to provide specific travel insurance cover for dental, cosmetic and medical treatment carried out abroad. The company is an example of how finding a gap in the...
What happened to those 2008 medical tourism forecasts?Ian Youngman from IMTJ looks at some of the predictions and forecasts for medical tourism that were made in 2008, and the harsh reality of how these have turned out. Medical tourism still has a long way to go to become a significant influence on the healthcare market.
Building a successful medical tourism businessCaroline Ratner from IMTJ spoke to Dr. Michael Horowitz, a former cardiologist, who runs Medical Insights International a consulting firm with clients throughout the world advising medical tourism providers and facilitators on business strategies. Michael explains why a move into medical tourism...
Demand for medical tourism growing in the GulfHadi Malaeb, managing partner of Dubai-based Aura Events, the owner and organiser of the World Health Tourism Congress, explains why the demand for medical tourism is growing in the Gulf and how the region can cash in on this lucrative business

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