By Shawn Rhea October 26, 2009 Outbound medical travel fell by nearly 14% between 2007 and 2009 largely because of the recession, according to a new study from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. ... FULL STORY
By Vince Galloro October 07, 2009 HCA, Nashville, confirmed that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has requested information related to a dispute about nurse scheduling and compensation at its six hospitals in the United Kingdom. ... FULL STORY
By Shawn Rhea September 28, 2009 China Health Care Corp., a wholly owned Dallas-based subsidiary of the Cayman Island-based healthcare consultancy United Premier Medical Group, or UPMG, has appointed Kenneth Lee CEO and Cheng Xiu-Sheng executive chairman, according to a news release. ... FULL STORY
September 14, 2009 The children's hospital in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, handled lots of tough cases during a recent swine-flu outbreak, but none more wrenching than the sudden deaths of two of its own nurses in July. ... FULL STORY
By Shawn Rhea September 14, 2009 In what appears to be the first public-private hospital partnership between a U.S. provider and the Chinese government, Nashville-based China Healthcare Corp. recently announced it has received approval to build and operate a 500-bed, acute-care hospital in Cixi City, China. ... FULL STORY
By Shawn Rhea August 31, 2009 Clinical care isn't the only segment of the U.S. healthcare industry going global these days. Like a growing number of U.S. hospitals, American supply-chain businesses are also reaching into international markets. ... FULL STORY
By Shawn Rhea August 25, 2009 China Healthcare Corp., a Nashville, Tenn.-based company whose investors include HCA co-founder Thomas Frist Jr., has been given the go-ahead by Chinese officials to build a hospital in Cixi, China, according to a news release. ... FULL STORY
By Associated Press August 01, 2009 Thousands of doctors and nurses in the Dominican Republic say they will extend their strike for another week. Dominican Medical Association spokesman Ariel Suero says the three-day-old strike will continue until the government meets their demands. Suero says more than 15,000 doctors are demanding they be paid $1,700 a month. That's double the salary of some of the workers. Government officials announced July 31 that specially trained soldiers will assist patients during the strike. ... FULL STORY
By Shawn Rhea July 27, 2009 When stories about medical tourism began making news roughly a decade ago, most of the coverage focused on wealthy patients who sought cosmetic procedures and experimental treatments outside of the U.S. But as healthcare costs and the number of Americans without medical insurance have skyrocketed, much of the medical travel industry's growth has been attributed to patients seeking more affordable high-quality care outside of the country. Now, efforts to pass healthcare reform legislation that would reduce costs and expand medical coverage could force the medical travel industry to undergo... ... FULL STORY
By Shawn Rhea July 20, 2009 A growing dispute between several Florida healthcare providers, a medical travel coordinator and the Turks and Caicos Islands government suggest providers diving into the burgeoning medical tourism field could face some unanticipated reimbursement challenges. ... FULL STORY
By Cinda Becker August 09, 2004 No other country in the world can beat the U.S. in medical technology. No other country spends as much for it either.The mantra "Americans have the best medical care in the world" is frequently recited by U.S. policymakers and clinicians, according to a study published in the May/June issue of the journal Health Affairs that compares the quality of care in five English-speaking countries. But international data--limited though it is--places the U.S. in the bottom quartile of industrialized countries in terms of life expectancy and infant mortality, according to the report.The best... ... FULL STORY
