By Laura Carabello Georgetown, Exuma - Directly across the road from the "Fish Fry" eateries on Queens Highway - the only paved end-to-end main artery on the sleepy 37 mile (60 km) island of Exuma - is the construction site of a 10- to12-bed community hospital. A $14 million building project, not

Editor's Note: Just as this issue was getting ready to publish, we were alerted to an article in the May issue ofThe Self-Insurer, a publication of the Self-Insurance Institute of America. Written by David Boucher of Companion Global Healthcare, the story's focus is the factors compelling American employers to consider incentivizing

Travelmarketreport.com - Adding medical travel to the employee benefit menu can be a plus both for the employer and for its corporate travel department. One obvious benefit - the additional air and hotel volume associated with medical travel --count toward contract performance minimums and rebate thresholds. And one less-obvious benefit

It was recently announced that a spectacular wellness travel experience worth $5,500 will be given away at this month's "Well-Being and Medical Travel Conference 2012" on June 20-21, 2012, at The Phoenician luxury resort in Scottsdale, Ariz. (www.well-beingtravelconference.com). Participants at the event's trade show will have the opportunity to play the

traveldailynews.com - BIMC Hospital Group has announced a partnership with the Courtyard by Marriott Bali to provide the country's first-ever medical tourism packages and services to inbound travelers visiting Asia's most popular island destination. Inaugurated on May 5 by Indonesian Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Mari Elka Pangestu, along with officials from the

Editor's Note: healthaffairs.org recently ran an interesting piece on an effort by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department to track how the US health system is performing. The Health System Measurement Project allows people to track the progress being made toward providing all Americans with access to affordable, high-quality healthcare and toward reducing

wam.ae - The Dubai Health Authority met with private sector organizations, Dubai Healthcare City Authority (DHCA) and Dubai Tourism and Commerce Marketing to discuss and develop a unified medical tourism initiative for the Emirate. Qadhi Saeed Al Murooshid, director-general of the Dubai Health Authority, said, "In line with the instructions

Kswt.com - Border waiting time for US patients crossing into Mexico to use medical services has been expedited thanks to the new medical lane created next to the SENTRI lane at the Calexico port of entry. One man said he traveled about four hours to see a Mexicali doctor. "It's excellent, look

Businesswire.com --In support of its mission and vision to establish the .Health new generic top-level domain (gTLD) as a safer and more secure online namespace for global health stakeholders, DotHealth, LLC is pleased to announce it has applied to Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the exclusive

In just under 30 days on June 20-21, 2012, the "Well-Being and Medical Travel Conference 2012" will kick off at The Phoenician luxury resort in Scottsdale, Ariz. (www.well-beingtravelconference.com). "Travel and tourism has been making big news lately," said Anne Marie Moebes, executive vice president at Well-Being Travel. "Brand USA, the new