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USA Today shared Gerald Celente's (Trends Journal) predictions of the top trends for 2007 in yesterday's issue. Interesting that one of those trends is the same as what Spa Finder predicted for 2007 - a rise in medical tourism.
Here is how the Trends Journal describes medical tourism:
"American consumers will be "globetrotting to find the best prices for the best medical care," seeking out overseas doctors to perform procedures not readily available or not covered by insurance. Celente calls this "medical outsourcing."
Here is how Spa Finder described the same trend in last month's press release:
"In 2007, more and more people will travel to another city, state or country for medical spa experiences, creating a new trend: medical tourism. A range of new technologies will attract these medical tourists - DNA analysis, for example, and new generations of anti-aging medicines, injectables and lasers. But another big draw will be cost. Squeezed by domestic health care costs, many Americans are going online and discovering global destinations that offer cutting-edge medical procedures for a fraction of the cost ... often in beautiful, culturally rich locales like Bangkok, South Africa and India, to name a few."
I think that when a trend gets noticed both inside and outside the spa industry, we can be quite sure that this trend is gathering steam.
Here is how the Trends Journal describes medical tourism:
"American consumers will be "globetrotting to find the best prices for the best medical care," seeking out overseas doctors to perform procedures not readily available or not covered by insurance. Celente calls this "medical outsourcing."
Here is how Spa Finder described the same trend in last month's press release:
"In 2007, more and more people will travel to another city, state or country for medical spa experiences, creating a new trend: medical tourism. A range of new technologies will attract these medical tourists - DNA analysis, for example, and new generations of anti-aging medicines, injectables and lasers. But another big draw will be cost. Squeezed by domestic health care costs, many Americans are going online and discovering global destinations that offer cutting-edge medical procedures for a fraction of the cost ... often in beautiful, culturally rich locales like Bangkok, South Africa and India, to name a few."
I think that when a trend gets noticed both inside and outside the spa industry, we can be quite sure that this trend is gathering steam.
Labels: medical spa treatments, medical tourism, Press, tourism, Trends, USA Today
posted by Susie at Thursday, December 28, 2006
8 Comments:
The trend of medical tourism is all set to increase in the years to come. The concerned authorities of such countries are leaving no stones unturned in making a mark in this booming industry.Medical Tourism
Even our neighbors to the North (Canada) have better health care than we do.
Indeed - and that was made clear in the movie Sicko which I recently blogged about. Thanks for the reminder and I will be watching the medical tourism development in Canada going forward as it is likely to increase.
Medical Tourism is certainly here to stay. It will take some time for the American healthcare providers to challenge the low cost offered by healthcare providers in countries like India, Singapore, Thailand or Mexico for the same quality of treatment and care.
The benefits of medical tourism are manifold - low cost, top quality healthcare (with equal or superior outcomes compared to the US), immediate availability of healthcare service, the opportunity to travel overseas, etc.
Most Americans who choose to receive their healthcare abroad go to hospitals that are internationally accredited with JCI/JCAHO/ISO accreditations. This means that the same organization that monitors US hospitals also runs quality and standard checks on those international hospitals. Also, the surgeons in those hospitals are US/UK trained so they know the expectations of their patients. But there are other hospitals and surgeons as well who do not meet the right standards.
But research is the key. Before deciding upon a hospital to seek treatment at, one must assure the hospitals have high standard or quality and the surgeons have the right qualifications and experience. Patients must check out the hospital and doctor profiles to their satisfaction. They should get quotes and compare the cost, quality and other offerings by the various healthcare institutions.
For more information log on to Healthbase at http://www.healthbase.com.
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Health care system has very much improved in all most all the countries which offers tremendous facilities like online doctor appointments, online consultation, online prescriptions and patient records
It is because of inherent faults in the US medical care system and overburdeing of public health care systems in countries like UK and Canada that medical tourism has become hugely popular.
Medical tourism is here to stay because neither will US medical costs drop in a hurry nor will the NHS waiting lines vanish just like that.
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