New York based Commonwealth Fund, an organization that studies health care issues, surveyed patients in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Britain, Australia and the U.S. regarding their experiences and perceptions of health care in their countries. From the perspective of patients in those seven countries the U.S. ranked last. The areas in which U.S. […]

This new book titled “Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody’s Guide to Affordable, World-class Medical Tourism” is yet another sign of medical tourism becoming mainstream. The publisher describes it this way: Patients Beyond Borders is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism, aimed at the 84 million uninsured and under-insured Americans seeking treatment options abroad for […]

Want to stay informed about advances in IT in the healthcare field? Then the Healthcare IT blog is a good place to do that. I stumbled upon it when I was researching additional background information on the Microsoft purchase of Global Care Solutions. There is a good analysis of what the impact of the purchase […]