Medical tourists are not ordinary patients.
Better quality and greater safety for medical tourists is more than applying standard clinical protocols and making tourist arrangements.
Medical tourists are at higher risk for getting infections, being overtreated, getting wrong or poor quality medications, being overcharged, and staying longer in hospital than local patients.
Would You Let Your Travel Agent Choose Your Surgeon?
Or a retired high school teacher choose your fertility specialist? Critical decisions about the safety of hospitals, surgeons and treatment are made daily by people with no expertise or specialized training. Few are medical professionals. Read more …
Do Cultural Differences Affect International Hospital Quality?
The distribution of illnesses may be a little different from country to country but the application of healthcare quality standards should have the same core principles. Still, one should beware of applying one country’s values on another. Read more …
How Does Care Management Improve Quality Outcomes?
Aside from the obvious differences between having care at home and traveling abroad for care, medical treatment everywhere is increasingly complex and choices for care now require greater knowledge and more care givers than ever. Read more …
How Much Does It Cost?
The value of having medical treatment abroad has changed. The New Economics of Medical Tourism shows what has changed, why it has changed, and where to find the best values. Read more …
