Barcelona is widely-renowned for its medical credentials in Southern Europe, and Barcelona Medical Center is actively reaching out to an international market.
Barcelona Medical Center is a non-profit organization established 21 years ago. The organization compromises the best 23 private medical centres in Barcelona, located in a compact area of the city. BCM came into formation [...]

Medical Tourism Association Releases First Patient Surveys on Medical Tourism.
The Medical Tourism Association has released preliminary results from its first patient surveys in the Medical Tourism Industry. The Medical Tourism Association has created this medical tourism patient survey as part of a larger research project to study the medical tourism industry. The continuing results of [...]

A pre-summit April 27 is designed for those new to the accreditation process.
(Oak Brook, Ill.—April 3, 2009) Health care leaders can learn strategies and solutions to improve their organizations’ accreditation processes at The Joint Commission Accreditation Summit. The April 28-29 summit is being presented by Joint Commission Resources (JCR), a not-for-profit affiliate of The Joint [...]

(OAKBROOK, Ill., USA – March 26, 2009) Joint Commission International (JCI) has named Ashraf Ismail, M.D., M.P.H., as managing director of its Middle East Office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
As a founder of the Egyptian Society for Quality in Healthcare, Dr. Ismail brings extensive experience in hospital accreditation, health care quality management, performance improvement [...]

The Medical Tourism Association Launches Medical Tourism Facilitator Certification Program.
The Medical Tourism Association has launched “certification” to ensure the safety and overall positive results for patients traveling from one country to another. “Having the right processes and procedures in place to assist international patients has a direct correlation to better surgical outcomes for those patients.
Information [...]

New Institute to Advance Quality Improvement Efforts
(OAK BROOK, Illinois, USA –  March 10, 2009) Joint Commission International (JCI) and Peking University Health Science Center (PUHSC) announce the establishment of the Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, on the campus of PUHSC. The collaborative effort draws upon PUHSC’s experience in Chinese medical education and [...]

The Medical Tourism Association announces its Release of the last twenty educational videos which consist of interviews from the Medical Tourism Association’s annual conference World Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress. The conference took place in September 2008 with 850 attendees, 53 exhibitors from over 45 different countries.
Twenty new video interviews launched this week on [...]

The Medical Tourism Association Announces it’s Second Release of Educational Videos which consist of Interviews from the World Medical Tourism and Global Health Congress.
The Medical Tourism Association announces another release of educational videos which consist of interviews from the Medical Tourism Association’s annual conference World Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress. The conference took place [...]