by Amanda Haar, Editor Greetings, I came to a realization this week: trying to wrap your arms around all that medical travel encompasses is a bit like trying to hold onto a hyperactive greased pig on growth hormones. Every time you think you've got a handle on it, it wriggles free in

Greetings, Innovating the innovative. That seems to be what much of medical travel is about these days: introducing new ideas to an already innovative approach to healthcare. In this week's SPOTLIGHT we feature HealthSouk, an online marketplace for dental services where dentists can actually manage fees on a minute-by-minute basis

by Amanda Haar, Editor   Greetings, For the first-time ever, both of our SPOTLIGHT stories deal with organizations focused on using the internet to provide consumers with a concise yet robust resource of options for their specific healthcare needs.  While one is specialty-driven and currently US-based, the other is global

by Amanda Haar, Editor   Greetings, Innovating the innovative. That seems to be what much of medical travel is about these days: introducing new ideas to an already innovative approach to healthcare. In this week's SPOTLIGHT we feature HealthSouk, an online marketplace for dental services where dentists can actually manage

Salted caramel ice cream. Jumbo lump crab cakes. Duck-fat French fries. These are just a few of the reasons I recently spent far too much time on dishtip.com. Self-described as "a sophisticated food discovery application that analyzes millions of reviews, photos and related content across the Web to help you

THIS WEEK IN MEDICAL TRAVEL TODAY Volume 6, Issue 1   Greetings, TravelMarketReport.com, Kiplinger's, USA Today, ENT Today, and the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies. Those are just a few of the media outlets and organizations that chose to begin the new year with a look at medical travel.

Greetings, It's natural at the end of the year to reflect on all that's occurred in the past twelve months. Without a doubt, the medical travel industry gave us plenty to consider in 2011. Fortunately, the good news over the past year, including broader acceptance of medical travel among consumers

From the Editor: More From PepsiCo on their Medical Travel Benefit with Johns Hopkins Medicine  In our last issue of Medical Travel Today we shared news of an exciting new partnership between PepsiCo, Inc. and Johns Hopkins Medicine. Through the arrangement, PepsiCo's domestic employees and their dependents — nearly

Volume 5, Issue 25 by Amanda Haar, Editor   Greetings, As the year winds down, it's natural to assume that business will, too. But nothing could be further from the truth in medical travel. Just last week, Pepsi Co. — the world's second largest food and beverage company

Volume 5, Issue 24 Greetings, For the last several years it's been an ongoing challenge to find what felt like stable footing in the medical travel industry. Just how big is the industry? What are the opportunities? What are the liabilities? To whom are we selling? And on and on