Medical travel: Articles and features: 2011

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How medical tourism lost its way and how it can get back on trackIan Youngman from IMTJ highlights the confusion in the medical tourism sector about what the business is all about. Back to front marketing, a focus on low cost, and misguided business strategy has meant that many businesses have been and gone. Learning from the travel trade, embracing marketing...
A legal perspective on medical tourism in the USAI. Glenn Cohen, Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School, and Gregory W. Moore, leader of the healthcare practice group at the US law firm Clark Hill PLC, provide a legal perspective on medical tourism in the US, in an interview with Caroline Ratner of IMTJ. A new classification of medical tourism...
A new dawn for cross-border healthcare in Europe?Will European hospitals see a surge in patient numbers following the approval of the EU Directive on Cross-Border Healthcare by the European Parliament last week? I would like to say...Yes! But the reality may be a little different. So....let's take a look at how the EU Directive may (or may not)...
How will EU cross-border healthcare develop?Ian Youngman from IMTJ looks at some of the challenges facing the implementation of the EU Directive on Cross Border Healthcare, and whether governments and health services will invest the time and on setting up the required systems and organization to make it work.
Enhancing knowledge in the medical tourism industryCaroline Ratner spoke to David Vequist of the Center for Medical Tourism Research, which is based at the University of the Incarnate Word in Texas about the work of the center, which was set up over two years ago.
Exploring and understanding the health tourism marketIn his Second Opinion column, Dr Constantine Constantinides from healthCare cybernetics provides advice to students, researchers and entrepreneurs about exploring and understanding the health tourism market.
A new model for medical tourism in CyprusCaroline Ratner examines a model for medical tourism that has been developed by The American Institute of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (AIMIS Spine) operating beyond borders in Cyprus. AIMIS Spine consists of pre-eminent US spine surgeons who are the primary educators in advanced minimal...
New study numbers US medical tourists in thousands not millionsA new study Medical Tourism Services Available to Residents of the United States published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine casts doubts on many of the claims made about the size of the medical tourism market and concludes that the number of Americans travelling overseas for medical care...
The medical tourism numbers game... Part 2Back in May 2008, I blogged on McKinsey and the medical tourism numbers game... and commented on their strange way of counting (or not counting) medical tourism numbers. Given the latest study on medical tourism numbers, New study numbers US medical tourists in thousands not millions, reported in...

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