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Domestic Medical Travel vs International Medical Tourism

August 16th, 2010 · No Comments · medical travel

I’ve noticed something really interesting over the last couple of weeks and that is that in our industry when people refer to domestic travel for medical care, it is pretty consistently referred to as “domestic medical travel”. But when people cross the border and go internationally it is widely referred to as “medical tourism”. I really wonder why that is and I am very interested to get feedback from my viewers about why that might be.

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MSNBC: Foreign-trained docs as good as U.S. physicians

August 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · medical travel

Take a look at this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38537956/ns/health-health_care/.
This says a lot about the potential for medical travel. First of all, it says that foreign doctors trained in their home countries actually produce better results than American-trained doctors. But that headline would likely have been too caustic.
What does that mean? Well, it means that those doctors learned [...]

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What do Medical Tourism and eBay have in common?

July 25th, 2010 · No Comments · medical travel

Nearly everyone who uses the internet has looked at items on eBay and many people have either bought or sold something. So what does that have to do with Medical Tourism?
When you get right down to it, I am a business strategist. It pervades my thinking when I am working at HealthGlobe and when I [...]

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Reduce Year-Over-Year Health Care Costs with HealthGlobe

July 13th, 2010 · No Comments · medical travel

HealthGlobe Co-Founder Jeff Carter describes the frustration of trend increases in employer health care and how HealthGlobe helped reduce one corporate client reduce their total costs by $1M year over year in 2010.

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