Medical Tourism Association Has Second Successful Webinar

West Palm Beach, FL, July 18, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The Medical Tourism Association has finished it’s second online medical tourism webinar. The medical tourism webinar featured Wouter Hoeberechts of WorldMed Assist and Matt Leming of Swiss Reinsurance Company discussing medical tourism’s integration and implementation in US health insurance plans. Both the 1st and 2nd medical tourism webinar’s featured over 70 people, learning advanced educational content. Attendees to the online webinar were able to ask questions of the speakers, listen to two twenty minute presentations and really learn a lot in one hour. The medical tourism webinar received excellent reviews by the listeners and attendees.

The Medical Tourism webinars are free to anyone who wishes to attend. While other companies charge money for people to attend webinars, the MTA is offering them for free as part of it’s mission to provide education and knowledge in medical tourism. The MTA launched the medical tourism webinars as a way to provide more informational content to those individuals and businesses either involved in medical tourism or interested in medical tourism. The MTA medical tourism webinars will be every two weeks.

The Medical Tourism Association is the first international non-profit association made up of the top international hospitals, healthcare providers, medical tourism 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.

The Medical Tourism Association seeks to provide transparency in both quality of care and pricing. Every day we see more and more that the globalization of healthcare has created a very flat world. We exchange technology, information, communication, physicians and patients. In order to ensure patient safety, it is our goal to create a transparency about the quality of healthcare that can be found in each country. With this, it is increasingly important to create a transparency in pricing as well so patients traveling overseas for care can be sure of what they are receiving without hidden costs or unforeseen expenses. The Medical Tourism Association is also working on the Quality of Care Project, which will change the way we look at the reporting of global healthcare statistics and the quality of care available at hospitals around the world.

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