March 20, 2014

What You Should Know About Travel Insurance
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/travel-insurance-101_n_4957141.html
Medical providers outside the United States often ask for up-front payments for medical services that can cost thousands of dollars, and travel insurance can guarantee these payments. (This is also true for medical evacuations and repatriations, which ...


PlacidWay 2014 Medical Tourism Global Consumer Demand Survey Analysis
http://www.pr.com/press-release/547816
"It is important that medical providers, medical tourism clusters, and governments trying to promote medical travel, align their healthcare solutions by understanding the nature of demand and developing the specific message as well as the specific ...


BOOK REVIEW: Health, Tourism and Hospitality: Spas, Wellness and Medical ...
http://www.imtj.com/news/?entryid82=436848
The second edition of ?Health, Tourism and Hospitality: Spas, Wellness and Medical Travel" takes an in-depth and comprehensive look at the growing health, wellness and medical tourism sectors in a global context. The book analyses the history and ...


MLAs raise concerns over medical travel costs
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2014-02-24/article-3626275/MLAs-raise-concerns-over-medical-travel-costs/1
MLAs Richard Brown and Olive Crane spoke at the recent Standing Committee on Health and Social Development, adding their concerns to MLAs of all political stripes about the hardship medical travel costs is causing Islanders.


Baystate Medical Center features Amy Dane travel photography
http://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2014/03/baystate_medical_center_features_amy_dane_travel_photography.html
"Favorite Faces from Faraway Places,? a photography exhibit by Longmeadow resident Amy S. Dane, is on view through May 1 at Baystate Medical Center. The 40 photographs by Dane, an art historian and travel agent, is in the corridor to the MRI wing in ...


Regional medical tourism in the spotlight
http://www.traveldailymedia.com/203775/regional-medical-tourism-in-the-spotlight/
All of these factors dictate the current climate for medical travel, and medical facilities and health authorities need to address these issues in order to facilitate medical tourism across GCC borders. Dr Bariah Dardari, head of paediatric department ...


Biba renews medical travel scheme with AllClear
http://www.insuranceage.co.uk/insurance-age/news/2329437/biba-renews-medical-travel-scheme-with-allclear
The trade body highlighted that the member-only scheme complements its existing travel insurance product and extends the offering to include cover for those with pre-existing medical conditions, with no age exclusions for over 75s on annual trips or ...


M'sia's booming medical tourism
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2014/03/02/msias-booming-medical-tourism/
Wong, whose organisation has participated in a number of international travel and tourism shows worldwide, in conjunction with Tourism Malaysia, believes the medical travel industry is ?bound to grow tremendously? because of rising healthcare costs, ...