Medical Tourism Association's Medical Tourism Magazine Announces Issue 7 the Conference Issue San Francisco 2008

West Palm Beach, FL, December 12, 2008 --(PR.com)-- The Medical Tourism Association is pleased to share their newly released Issue 7 of the Medical Tourism Magazine with you. Please click on their magazine link located at the top right hand corner of their website. Scroll down to Issue 7: Special Issue - World Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress 2008.

Highlights from this Issue Include:

Interview with Dr. Joseph Heyman, American Medical Association
Interview with Alex Piper, Former Buyer of Chrysler
Interview with Dr. James Fram, ISAPS
In focus articles on Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East

Other articles include:

American Healthcare & Economic Crisis ~ What Does It Mean for Medical Tourism?

Everyone around the world is aware of the ongoing healthcare crisis in the United States. While people know some of the statistics, such as almost 50 million Americans have no health insurance and hundreds of millions do have health insurance which costs continue to rise, no one really knows the true cost of healthcare.
By Jonathan Edelheit

Putting Country First ~ Costa Rica: The Challenges and Rewards of Creating a National Healthcare Cluster

Sometimes, setting aside your differences, and working with your competitors for a greater good or common cause can ultimately result in more generous rewards for all. It is the promotion of this concept ~ that the whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts ~ that has been the catalyst for the development of Costa Rica's healthcare cluster.
By Bill Cook

Creating the Patient Experience ~ Medical Tourism Facilitation Featuring WorldMed Assist, Premiere Medical Travel and Healthbase

We are seeing a tremendous rise in the number of medical tourism facilitators developing internationally, but how we go about delivering services to the patients is not provide in a handbook.So many facilitators gathered at the Congress for the workshops to gain some insight into how to develop their businesses and establish best practicesfor handling patients.
By Renee-Marie Stephano in collaboration with Vivian Ho

The Medical Tourism Magazine is a bi-monthly Medical Tourism industry magazine in both print and electronic versions. The Medical Tourism Magazine is free for subscribers in both print and electronic versions. The Medical Tourism Magazine will address important issues affecting the Medical Tourism industry and have a primary focus on the quality of healthcare available at leading international hospitals. Each issue of the medical tourism magazine will cover the world as a whole, but also have a special inside focus on one specific country. The Medical Tourism Magazine also has its own online website.

The Medical Tourism Association is the first international non-profit association made up of the top international hospitals, healthcare providers, medical travel facilitators, insurance companies, and other affiliated companies and members with the common goal of promoting the highest level of quality of healthcare to patients in a global environment. Their Association promotes the interests of its healthcare provider and medical tourism facilitators members. The Medical Tourism Association has three tenets: Transparency, Communication and Education.

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