Rise of the Smart Patient in the Global Health Market

by Daniel Friedland | Dec 22, 2009 07:48:00 PM

One of the fastest growing segments of the healthcare industry is medical tourism, where for a number of reasons, more and more patients are electing to travel away from their local healthcare systems to seek healthcare. Here navigating the healthcare system takes on a global context, with additional skills needed to do this safely and effectively.

If you’d like to learn more about this topic, take a look at the article I co-authored this month with Renée-Marie Stephano, the President of the Medical Tourism Association (MTA) and Vivian Ho, the Managing Director of MTA’s Asia Pacific region. It’s titled Rise of the Smart Patient in the Global Health Market.