Editor's Note: Thanks to our friends at Mercury Health for their permission to reprint the following item from their website. Mercury's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance team offers timely advice about how the new Health Information Technology for Economic

TravelBizmonitor.com - India's medical tourism industry is set to take a significant hit if tension with Pakistan persists. Hospitals and industry experts fear the visa hurdles may restrict the movement of patients from Pakistan, who constitute 15-20 percent of the total international travelers coming

Editor's Note: A recent Reuters' story entitled Traveling for Healthcare, but Not That Far caught my eye. The story briefly chronicles one man's quest for an affordable hip replacement, and introduces North American Surgery, a company specializing exclusively in domestic-based medical travel facilitation. (FYI: Medical Travel Today actually

Brookline, MA - Medical Tourism Training, Inc., a US-based training and consulting company, is pleased to announce the addition of two talented and high-powered team members who bring extensive experience working with international medical healthcare providers. As former director of International Patient Services

Editor's Note: While some insurers and employers are intrigued by the potential cost savings of 24/7 doctor appointments via webcam, the trend is drawing criticism from state regulators and doctors' groups. A recent piece by Anna Wilde Matthews in The Wall Street Journal does a very nice

A delegation of representatives of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism held talks in Baku with their Azerbaijani counterparts regarding the development of medical tourism. According to Turkish media, during the visit to Azerbaijan the Turkish delegation visited the tourism facilities, the

Nueterra, a global healthcare management company, has significantly invested in making healthcare a global proposition. “Healthcare is not restricted to geographic boundaries,” said Dan Tasset, chairman of Nueterra. On November 13 Reuters cited an Ispos study which stated that one out of five

Those in our industry who were not able to attend the International Malaysia Healthcare Travel Conference and Exhibition (MIHTE) in November missed one of the year's best industry events. Several colleagues commented favorably, admitting to pleasant surprise that a regional conference could come

Editor's Note: A veteran of the Insurance and Risk Management industry for more than thirty years, Richard Krasner is fast becoming medical travel's biggest champion, specifically as it applies to worker's compensation.Readers may recognize Krasner's name from Volume 6, Issue 23 of Medical

Travelling for health has been and probably will be one of the most important reasons to travel both internationally and domestically. There are many brackets of travelling for health products, from surgical motivations to spiritual interests. The Tourism Observatory for Health, Wellness and