Medical travel: Articles and features: 2010

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

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 takes place in Venice 5 -7th May.
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 that are characteristic of poorly performing hospitals
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” to spend time on cultivating a sustainable market. It’s time for the industry to move on says Dr...
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 the work of the ACHS. IMTJ then talked to some senior healthcare management personnel from India,...
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 procedures on board cruise ships, using the medical facilities already present on the ships, and recuperate...
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 mix and its product lines. The article considers how to differentiate medical tourism products and...
The top ten hospitals for medical tourism: Fact or fiction?This week saw the publication of the “Top Top 10 World’s Best Hospitals ™ for medical tourists” by the Medical Travel Quality Alliance (MTQA). It has raised some eyebrows in medical tourism circles and questions about the basis of selection and the motive for the initiative. IMTJ’s Ian Youngman...
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 healthcare versus global healthcare...competition hots up..... finding the recession proof niche.