Dear Colleagues: The globalization of healthcare is fast becoming reality, and the interview with Ralph Foster is further evidence of how companies can now serve a worldwide marketplace. Hospital development projects are a key factor in the proliferation of medical travel activities. As

Greetings, This week’s issue highlights how the push for transparency continues to drive a number of aspects of medical travel. Beginning with our SPOTLIGHT, featuring Simon Hudson, Ph.D., of the Center of Economic Excellence in Tourism and Economic Development at the University of

Greetings, Recently I’ve been making the rounds of college campuses with my soon-to-be high school senior daughter. As anyone who has done this before knows, after you’ve sat through five or so information sessions and taken the hour-long tours, it all starts to

Greetings, Regular readers of Medical Travel Today may notice that I chose to play a little loose with our traditional editorial structure this issue and not lead with our SPOTLIGHT interview. I did so because I felt that the opening OPINION piece offered some interesting

Greetings, Strength in numbers seems to be the prevailing theme of this week's issue. Beginning with our SPOTLIGHT featuring Sophia Quint, Head of Health Tourism at visitBerlin, we learn how German care providers, hospitality organizations, and travel companies are pulling together to define

Greetings, I once had a boss describe his attitude towards a project we were working on as "wildly, cautiously optimistic." That's kind of how I feel the content of this issue reads. On the one hand you have organizations forming new alliances aimed

Greetings, Medical travel has expanded its reach beyond the radar of those in just the healthcare industry. As evidenced by this week's SPOTLIGHT and several INDUSTRY NEWS items, the potential of medical travel as an economic driver is taking center stage in many

Greetings, When Paula Wilson joined the Joint Commission International (JCI) in 2011, access to the organization's vast knowledge and data was accessible to "members only." Fast forward to two years later and Paula Wilson has put a plan into motion to change that.

Greetings, Obstacles and opportunities seem to pervade this issue's news. From India, where new government visa restrictions are having a devastating effect on patient flow from Pakistan, to Malaysia, where a hands-on government approach is facilitating the creation of visa and extensions to

Greetings, As with many industries, success often comes as a result of making the right connections. This issue is dedicated to making the right connections in medical travel. From a startup healthcare technology company that's working to facilitate patient-doctor interactions globally and finding