International Medical Travel Journal: News
- The government of the Turks and Caicos Islands has followed Dubai and Nigeria with a public declaration of the need to drastically cut government...
- Thailand Medical Tourism Cluster (TMTC) says it will promote both domestic and international markets, claiming the wellness sector can be sold...
- The South Korean government plans to ease rules in the nation’s free economic zones (FEZs) to allow foreign medical institutes to more easily...
- Following the publication in an IMTJ blog of the 370 domain names owned by Jonathan Edelheit, a co-founder and CEO of the US based Medical Tourism...
- Indian officials have admitted the presence of an antibiotic-resistant superbug in Delhi hospitals, despite earlier claims from some politicians that...
- A new survey of 5,000 people suggests that 80% of NHS patients want more choice over how and where they are treated in the NHS, 79% want more choice...
- Dubai’s national health insurance system to cover every employee has been delayed for at least two years. A national medical tourism strategy...
- Patients and health care providers are increasingly crossing borders within the European Union to deliver or receive treatment. New EU regulations...
- Eurodent has launched new dental treatment packages to Norway, there is a study into the competitiveness of the private dental sector in the UK, and...
- Europe continues to develop into a major medical tourism destination with individual Western European countries attracting medical tourists from the...
- A new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit ’Travelling for health: the potential for medical tourism’, has some surprising results...
- The UK government’s austerity measures could lead to a rise in the number of UK patients travelling abroad for medical treatment, if NHS...
- In Panama City, a hospital run by Johns Hopkins Medicine has become the first in the country to receive JCI international accreditation.
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- Doctors Hospital in the Bahamas will in early 2012 begin another medical tourism initiative. The Nassau hospital is launching a project with a...
- Important ethical questions are raised by the growth of “transplant tourism”. The long waiting lists for body parts in many developed...
- Indian hospital group, Fortis Healthcare, has been an early proponent of medical tourism. Now it expects to get 10% of its Indian revenue from...
- MAPE Turismo y Salud, the Spanish facilitator for health and medical tourism, is expanding its services into the Kuwait healthcare market. It has...
- After initially gaining a reputation for overblown claims on numbers and activity, those promoting medical tourism to the Philippines are now making...
- New Zealand insurer Southern Cross has undertaken a study of medical tourism. It is not convinced that it could save money by taking patients...
- According to the Council for the International Promotion of Costa Rica Medicine (Promed), medical tourism generated $295 million dollars in revenue...
