Medical Tourism Association's 1st Annual Congress Was a Huge Success with Over 850 Attendees
Medical Tourism Association's 1st Annual Congress was a huge success with over 850 attendees. Attendees from over 45 countries came to the world's largest medical tourism conference in San Francisco, California, September 9-12th, 2008. Over 53 exhibitors showcased their high quality of healthcare and services.
Los Angeles, CA, October 26, 2008 --(PR.com)-- The Medical Tourism Association's 1st annual conference, the World Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress was a tremendous success with over 850 attendees from over 45 countries and more than 53 exhibitors and sponsors.
The conference featured advanced workshops in the areas of marketing, Building International patient departments, legal issues, quality of care, medical tourism facilitator hot topics, and more.
Some of the panel session highlights were the Employer panel session where participants from Black & Decker, Procter & Gamble and Hannaford Brothers discussed their feelings on medical tourism. Another exciting panel session was the Insurance company panel session consisting of participants from Swiss Re, United Healthcare, CIGNA, and Assurant Health discussing both the negatives and positives of medical tourism and the insurance company view of medical tourism.
A significant number of media and press came to the event with outlets such as MSNBC, Human Resources Executive Magazine, Business Insurance, and San Francisco Chronicle just to name a few.
The Highlights of the event included over 3,000 one-on-one Networking meetings with unlimited networking opportunities throughout the event, leading to many contracts signed between insurance companies, hospitals, and facilitators. New contracts were also signed between facilitators and hospitals or clinics. The conference featured many advanced educational sessions, including for the first time ever the ADA, AMA and ASPS who spoke about medical tourism. The exhibit hall came alive with all of the many countries that were represented through tourism boards, hospitals, facilitators, and many more who exhibited their quality of care and healthcare available to medical tourists and their world class services.
Read what the 2008 Conference Delegates Are Saying:
"In my opinion, the 2008 World Medical Tourism and Global Health Congress was a great success. The Medical Tourism Association united healthcare providers, medical tourism facilitators, academics, governments, and stakeholders from around the world in discussions about the problems of, and, most importantly, solutions to the healthcare crisis in the United States. After participating in the conference, I am confident that the medical tourism industry is emerging as a low-cost, high-quality solution for healthcare consumers who are faced with increasing and unmanageable healthcare costs."
- Chad Halloway, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri
"The medical tourism industry seems poised to grow in volume and significance within the next few years. Participation in the MTA Congress provided an excellent opportunity for Singapore's public healthcare group to network and showcase our JCI accredited facilities, good clinical outcomes and top class medical excellence. We believe Singapore's healthcare system, ranked as sixth best in the world and the best in Asia by the World Health Organization in 2000 is well-placed to offer US medical travelers a viable alternative."
- Judy Lim, MOH Holdings Pte Ltd, Singapore
"I was impressed with the number of attendee's, and even more so with their positions. I met physicians, Hospital Administrators, and a host of people vitally interested in putting together the mechanics of site selection; provider selection and care; travel and logistics; and, follow up care. I met some very interesting and knowledgeable people from the Philippines, Costa Rica, Jordan, India, and Croatia, to name a few of the locations I learned about who are offering first class medical facilities and practitioners. Thank you so much for putting this conference together. I was fascinated by the scope and growth of this medical care industry."
- Robert Frary, Symetra Life Insurance Company
"We were very impressed with the conference: The number of attendees was unparalleled. Equally important, those people represented organizations of key interest to us: insurance companies, insurance consultants/brokers, TPAs, etc. Finally, because this conference was dedicated to the industry: the energy level was incredible and everybody reached out to each other to network and learn more of the latest developments."
- Wouter Hoeberechts, World Med Assist
The 2nd Annual World Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress will take place October 26-28th, 2009 in Los Angeles, California at the Hyatt Century Plaza.
Up to 2,000 attendees from over 50 countries
Up to 100 exhibitors and sponsors
Over 100 expert speakers
Over 10 workshops on pre-congress workshop day
Up to 5,000 one-on-one networking meetings
Networking lunches
Networking cocktail receptions
And so much more
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The conference featured advanced workshops in the areas of marketing, Building International patient departments, legal issues, quality of care, medical tourism facilitator hot topics, and more.
Some of the panel session highlights were the Employer panel session where participants from Black & Decker, Procter & Gamble and Hannaford Brothers discussed their feelings on medical tourism. Another exciting panel session was the Insurance company panel session consisting of participants from Swiss Re, United Healthcare, CIGNA, and Assurant Health discussing both the negatives and positives of medical tourism and the insurance company view of medical tourism.
A significant number of media and press came to the event with outlets such as MSNBC, Human Resources Executive Magazine, Business Insurance, and San Francisco Chronicle just to name a few.
The Highlights of the event included over 3,000 one-on-one Networking meetings with unlimited networking opportunities throughout the event, leading to many contracts signed between insurance companies, hospitals, and facilitators. New contracts were also signed between facilitators and hospitals or clinics. The conference featured many advanced educational sessions, including for the first time ever the ADA, AMA and ASPS who spoke about medical tourism. The exhibit hall came alive with all of the many countries that were represented through tourism boards, hospitals, facilitators, and many more who exhibited their quality of care and healthcare available to medical tourists and their world class services.
Read what the 2008 Conference Delegates Are Saying:
"In my opinion, the 2008 World Medical Tourism and Global Health Congress was a great success. The Medical Tourism Association united healthcare providers, medical tourism facilitators, academics, governments, and stakeholders from around the world in discussions about the problems of, and, most importantly, solutions to the healthcare crisis in the United States. After participating in the conference, I am confident that the medical tourism industry is emerging as a low-cost, high-quality solution for healthcare consumers who are faced with increasing and unmanageable healthcare costs."
- Chad Halloway, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri
"The medical tourism industry seems poised to grow in volume and significance within the next few years. Participation in the MTA Congress provided an excellent opportunity for Singapore's public healthcare group to network and showcase our JCI accredited facilities, good clinical outcomes and top class medical excellence. We believe Singapore's healthcare system, ranked as sixth best in the world and the best in Asia by the World Health Organization in 2000 is well-placed to offer US medical travelers a viable alternative."
- Judy Lim, MOH Holdings Pte Ltd, Singapore
"I was impressed with the number of attendee's, and even more so with their positions. I met physicians, Hospital Administrators, and a host of people vitally interested in putting together the mechanics of site selection; provider selection and care; travel and logistics; and, follow up care. I met some very interesting and knowledgeable people from the Philippines, Costa Rica, Jordan, India, and Croatia, to name a few of the locations I learned about who are offering first class medical facilities and practitioners. Thank you so much for putting this conference together. I was fascinated by the scope and growth of this medical care industry."
- Robert Frary, Symetra Life Insurance Company
"We were very impressed with the conference: The number of attendees was unparalleled. Equally important, those people represented organizations of key interest to us: insurance companies, insurance consultants/brokers, TPAs, etc. Finally, because this conference was dedicated to the industry: the energy level was incredible and everybody reached out to each other to network and learn more of the latest developments."
- Wouter Hoeberechts, World Med Assist
The 2nd Annual World Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress will take place October 26-28th, 2009 in Los Angeles, California at the Hyatt Century Plaza.
Up to 2,000 attendees from over 50 countries
Up to 100 exhibitors and sponsors
Over 100 expert speakers
Over 10 workshops on pre-congress workshop day
Up to 5,000 one-on-one networking meetings
Networking lunches
Networking cocktail receptions
And so much more
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Medical Tourism Association
Melissa Skelton
561-791-2000
www.MedicalTourismAssociation.com
Melissa Skelton
561-791-2000
www.MedicalTourismAssociation.com
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