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Rick Johnson, for HealthLeaders Media, May 7, 2008
Traveling to Taiwan
Rick Johnson, for HealthLeaders Media, May 7, 2008
Medical Travel: U.S. Pivotal to Global Market’s Growth
Rick Johnson, for HealthLeaders Media, May 7, 2008
South Korea aims to become Asia’s new medical travel hub
AFP, May 6, 2008
Medical tourism or medical travel can produce discounts of 80%
U.S. News & World Report, May 6, 2008
Ten million children worldwide die from lack of healthcare
AP/Yahoo News, May 6, 2008
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Contributed Feature: Learning Healthcare IT Lessons from North of the 49th Parallel
The U.S. would do well to follow the example of Canada's electronic record undertaking, says contributor Lorraine Fernandes, RHIA, RHIT. +
Lorraine Fernandes, RHIA, RHIT, for HealthLeaders Media
May 6, 2008
Commentary: Greening the White Coats
When AMA President Ronald M. Davis, MD, addressed physicians in an AMA eVoice column last week, he asked for physician commitment to a making healthcare "green." +
Elyas Bakhtiari, for HealthLeaders Media
May 1, 2008
Audio: An Embarrassment of Riches?
Aniruddha Malpani, MD, an IVF specialist in Bombay, says India's booming healthcare industry might become too much like the United States. +
Rick Johnson, for HealthLeaders Media
April 22, 2008
Medical tourism is still small
Although there remains potential for huge growth in the industry, the number of people traveling the globe for medical treatment likely is far lower than commonly assumed, according to a study by consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Just 60,000 to 85,000 patients a year travel to another country expressly for inpatient hospital care each year, according to the study. In addition, most aren’t seeking low-cost care in the developing world, but many of the medical tourists instead seek the latest treatments available in the United States and other industrialized countries.
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