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India is Big Mart for Medical Tourism Business

With growing number of private hospitals offering the best of medical services in the world, India has been evolving as a big mart for medical tourism business, which is reportedly growing at the rate of 30 per cent each year.

India is known to offer quality and cheap health care services to foreign tourists. As per the study carried out by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the Indian medical tourism industry will become a .3 billion business by 2012. In 2007, India treated nearly 450,000 foreign patients, thereby bagging the second position in the medical tourism realm.

India is in the process of becoming a Big Mart for Medical Tourism owing to the following advantages:

* Indian medical services cost 30% less as compared to Western countries and they are considered to be the cheapest in South-east Asia.

*India has large number of English speaking doctors, nurses, guides and medical staff. This makes it easier for foreigners to communicate with the Indian doctors.

* Indian hospitals do extremely well in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, transplants, joint replacements, dental care, cosmetic treatments, Orthopaedic surgery and more.

* The medical services in India comprise, full body pathology, comprehensive physical and gynecological examinations, audiometry, spirometry, Chest X-ray, 12 lead ECG, 2D echo Colour Doppler, gold standard DXA bone densitometry, body fat analysis, coronary risk markers, cancer risk markers, high strength MRI etc.

* All medical treatments are carried out using the latest, technologically advanced diagnostic equipments.

* Indian doctors have achieved excellence in performing successful cardiac surgeries, bone marrow transplants, liver transplants, orthopedic surgeries and other medical treatments.

* The expenditure incurred for Infertility treatments in India is almost 1/4th of that in developed nations. The accessibility to modern reproductive techniques, such as IVF, and an array of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) services have made India an infertility treatment hub.

Medical Consultation and Surgery

India is the looked upon as the ideal medical destination for surgery and treatment, because of the numerous government hospitals and private tertiary care medical institutions with International JCI (Join Commission International) Accreditation. Most of these hospitals rank among the best in the world. They are well-equipped with the most modern and sophisticated technologies. The panel of internationally trained Consultants and Surgeons in India, backed by specialist medical teams, ensure total patient care with high success rates. The best thing being the cost of Medical consultation and surgeries is very affordable. The most important surgeries which foreigners prefer to carry out in India are listed below:

Infertility Treatments
Heart/Cardio Surgeries
Cosmetic Treatments
Eye Care
Dental Care
Orthopedic Surgeries
Organ Transplants
India a big mart for alternate system of medicines like ayurveda

Ayurveda

Ayurveda is the oldest form of medicine, and lore has it that its guiding principles were scripted by Hindu Gods, and written texts available date back to 3500 years. This probably makes it the earliest medical science available that believes in the blending of physical, mental, social, moral and spiritual welfare. India has been proactively propagating its usefulness via various global networks. Consequently, many foreign companies have started realizing the effectiveness of this science. People from U.S.A., U.K., Russia, Germany, South Africa, Hungary and other parts of the world visit India to get treated by Indian Ayurveda experts.

Aarkstore Enterprise—Poland Medical Tourism Market 2013

Poland Medical Tourism Market 2013

Poland has emerged as one of the favored destinations for medical tourism among international travelers. The low-cost treatment facilities coupled with well established tourism and health infrastructure has led to favorable growth of medical tourism market in Poland. In recent years large number of patients from UK, Germany and other destinations have visited Poland for dental and other medical treatments. According to our analysis medical tourism market in Poland will witness phenomenal growth in near future mainly due to huge cost savings and long waiting time for treatment in western countries. The increasing level of investment in private healthcare facilities and focus on promotional activities by associations and government will further strengthen the position of Poland as favored destination for medical tourism. It is further anticipated that Poland will give stiff competition to already established destinations for medical tourism like India, Singapore and Thailand.

“Poland Medical Tourism Market 2013” discusses the following issues related to medical tourism in Poland:

Medical Tourism Industry Revenue

Per capita Expenditure by Medical Tourists

Medical Tourist Arrival

Treatment Cost Comparison between Poland & nine countries like U.S, India, Costa Rica, Singapore etc.

Key Medical Tourism Destinations in Poland

Health care infrastructure including Medical Personnel, Public & Private Hospital, Health Resorts

“Poland Medical Tourism Market 2013” gives detailed and unprejudiced overview on the medical tourism market in Poland. Reports has critically evaluated all the aspects related to medical tourism market and helps reader to get complete overview on latest trends and medical tourism market potential in Poland. This study is helpful for medical tourism travel service operators, investors, healthcare facilities provider and other associated partners of medical tourism industry.

Table of Contents :  
1. Analyst Briefing
2. Tourism Industry Outlook
3. Why Consider Poland for Medical Tourism?
4. Medical Tourism Industry: Scenario 2013
4.1 Market Overview
4.2 Market Revenue
4.3 Tourist Arrivals
4.4 Treatment Cost Comparison
4.5 Key Medical Tourism Destinations
5. Health Care Infrastructure
5.1 Medical Personnel
5.2 Public & Private Hospital
5.3 Health Resorts
6. Visa Regulations
7. Competitive Landscape
7.1 Medical Poland
7.2 Damian Medical Center (DMC)
7.3 Medicover Hospital
7.4 New Hospital Group Ltd
7.5 INDEXMEDICA
7.6 Dent-a-Medical
7.7 VIMED Medical Centre

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Impact Of Medical Tourism On Healthcare Landscape In Countries Around The World

Global Medical Tourism Report ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/Global-Medical-Tourism.html ) provides the information about the worldwide Importance of Medical Tourism.

The wealthy citizens of developing countries have frequently traveled to the U.S. and Western Europe to seek the expertise and gain access to advanced technology available at leading medical centers. Recently, a trend categorized as “medical tourism” has emerged, wherein citizens of highly-developed countries choose to bypass care offered in their own communities and travel to developed areas of the world to receive a wide variety of medical services in order to save money. Medical tourism is fundamentally different from the traditional model of international “medical travel,” where patients generally journey from less-developed nations to major medical centers in highly-developed countries for medical treatment that is unavailable in their own communities.

This report focuses on the medical tourism trend that will have an increasing impact on the healthcare landscape in industrialized and developing countries around the world. The term “medical tourism” does not accurately reflect the reality of the patient’s situation or the advanced medical care provided in these destinations. Nevertheless, it provides an unambiguous way of differentiating the recent phenomenon of medical tourism from the traditional model of international medical travel. This phenomenon is driven by marketplace forces and occurs outside of the purview and control of the organized healthcare system. Medical tourism presents important concerns and challenges as well as potential opportunities. This analysis will examine the international locales that are experiencing a dramatic increase in medical tourism, with particular emphasis on Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

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Baby Boomers and the Health and Wellness Tourism Industry

Much attention has been fixed on the potential needs of the “baby boomer generation” which will be reaching its maturity in about the year 2013. Baby boomers are those described as having been born between 1946 and 1964, considered to be the largest generation in decades.

Healthcare providers around the world concerned about the ability of current healthcare systems to take care of their medical needs.

Baby boomers are likely to face a multitude of health and medical issues, the most common including:

Orthopedic – hip and knee problems
Obesity – weight related conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and stroke
Preventive care and maintenance – cancer screening, mammograms, diagnostic testing
Anti aging issues – cosmetic and plastic surgery, anti aging and aging maintenance
Mental health – stress management, depression
Cardiac care

Health Care Providers Face Growing Demands
Baby boomers are naturally concerned about the availability of healthcare services in the future.  Rising healthcare costs, longer wait times, higher deductibles, and an increasing number of physicians hesitant to add new patients to their already overburdened patient rosters leave many seniors facing a health care dilemma.

Health care providers are already overwhelmed by the demands of today’s consumers, and face shortages in nursing, general practice physicians and service providers not only in the United States, but around the world.

Large parts of elderly populations around the world don’t seek medical care because they are either uncovered by medical insurance or there are not enough service providers to provide for their growing and sometimes complex needs. However, the health and wellness tourism industry is an option available to seniors today and well into the future.

Health and Wellness Tourism
Health and wellness tourism is a growing trend in the medical and health care industry, as it offers individuals choices and options regarding quality and affordable care in a variety of international destinations around the world.

International medical care has become nearly synonymous with vacation travel to many state-of- the-art, world-class, and famous tourist destinations around the world. Formerly limited traditional medical destinations such as India, Thailand and Singapore have blossomed with growth in the 21st century with newer, high-tech, and world-class facilities located in destinations from the Ukraine, Turkey, and Jordan, to South Africa, the Mediterranean, Switzerland, South America, and new Asian destinations such as South Korea, Japan, and Malaysia.

Big Savings
Baby boomers traveling to international destinations may save tens of thousands of dollars on the same treatments performed in the U.S., Canada and Britain, while it the same time receiving state of the art, high-tech and qualified care. For example, single heart bypass surgery, depending on severity, may cost an average of ,000 to ,000 in the United States, while an individual traveling to destinations such as India may receive such care for approximately ,000. A knee replacement in the United States may cost 35,000 to ,000 per knee, while knee replacement surgeries and procedures in destinations such as Costa Rica, charge 1/4 to 1/2 same price, all the while providing certified, accredited, state of the art equipment and experienced and highly trained surgeons, and high-tech facilities.

As baby boomers face retirement and increasing health costs, they’re looking for affordable and timely healthcare options. Nearly 150,000 Americans traveled abroad in 2007 for international medical care, and numbers drastically increased throughout 2008 and 2009. According to the Medical Tourism Association, an estimated 23 million Americans alone will travel overseas for their medical care by the year 2017, with expenditures of nearly billion dollars. The numbers of Britons, Canadians, and Middle Eastern citizens of countries such as Iran and Iraq, as well as Afrikaans, are seeking international medical destinations in Turkey, the Ukraine, India, and Thailand for affordable and quality medical care.

Anticipating a dilemma and growing dissatisfaction by consumers in the ability to provide adequate and quality health care to millions of aging Americans, a growing number of health insurance companies in the United States are offering Consumer Driven Health Plans (CDHP) and benefits enabling policyholders to travel to foreign destinations for their medical care in the hopes of relieving the burden on domestic health care. Medical tourism is the wave of the future, and the health and wellness tourism industry is able to meet the challenges of growing numbers of seniors seeking medical care in a multitude of fields.