Medical tourism, as many other industries, has suffered a big hit during the Covid
pandemic. Being impacted both on the tourism and the healthcare side of the industry,
it faces multiple challenges to recover. Looking at another period in time
when the medical tourism industry was this heavily impacted and comparing technological
advances during the respective periods, this article elaborates on how to
better use digital technologies to rebuild and strengthen international patient care
infrastructures.
Before delving into the topic at hand I make the usual disclaimer: Due to the sensitive
nature of the industry, there is not a lot of hard data available on medical
tourism. Many hospitals do not record foreign patients differently than local patients,
due to the specific set of laws that apply to them. Only a few medical tourism
destinations collect hard data and survey medical tourists on their experience.
Thus, any quantative analysis of the impact the Covid pandemic had and will have
on medical tourism is strongly limited.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:74484 |
| Date | 21 April 2021 |
| Creators | El-Khouri, Christian |
| Publisher | Universität Leipzig, University of Miami |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-744771, qucosa:74477 |
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