Editor's Note: Fresh from a healthcare conference in Malaysia, Josef Woodman, author of the highly successful “Patients Beyond Borders” series, was quick to pen/type a blog for the Huffington Post on how the US may find some inspiration for improving healthcare by studying some

  2012 was a landmark year for medical tourism, as news-making events drew attention to the sector's rapid growth as well as its emerging potential for travel sellers. High points included the first-ever Well-Being and Medical Travel Conference; Walmart's introduction of medical travel

Amid the ongoing uproar over the gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi earlier this month, the latest case has again shone the spotlight on the police's handling of sex crimes.One police officer has been fired and another suspended over

In Issue 20 of Medical Travel Today we introduced Sam Shallenberger of RJ Young, a $100 million equipment and leasing company based in Nashville, Tenn. Like many US companies, RJ Young faces the challenge of providing affordable healthcare coverage to its 450 employees.With the assistance of Alex

By Michael L. Frank, President, Aquarius Capital The week of October 22, 2012, was the first reinsurance conference in the Dominican Republic. The conference was held in Santo Domingo with a focus on educating the insurance community in the Dominican Republic on

A travel agent specialist course on medical and wellness travel is under development by The Travel Institute and Well-Being Travel, with an anticipated launch date at the end of the first quarter of 2013.Well-Being Travel, a resource for medical and wellness tourism (and

Nueterra, a global healthcare management company, is proud to join forces with Ochsner Health System, Louisiana's largest health system, to provide access to world-class healthcare through the Nueterra Global Alliance (NGA), an international network of doctors and health systems. By partnering with Ochsner

www.examiner.com - As more Americans learn what Obamacare is going to do when all of its ramifications begin taking over medical care in the US, many patients may choose to be medical tourists to obtain lower priced, needed private services that the gutted Medicare or their

businessweek.com - There is a growing movement among US employers to send insured workers on paid trips to get operations at bargain prices, those involved in the trend say. Chip Burgett, an executive vice president at BridgeHealth Medical Inc. in Denver - which helps companies, insurers and patients deal with

Nueterra recently hosted its Borderless Healthcare Symposium in Lima, Peru, on November 6 and 7. The two days of meetings included a panel discussion with the Peruvian Medical Association, Rimac International, local physicians and the Lima Chamber of Commerce. Physicians from top-ranked facilities in the US also presented as experts in