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Healthy Travel Media Announces Asia Launch of Patients Beyond Borders
Southeast Asia and India Driving a Global Healthcare Paradigm Shift; Medical Travelers Reap Treatment and Cost Saving Benefits.
2007-03-12
Singapore, 26 February 07 — In March 2007, Healthy Travel Media will publish Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody’s Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Tourism. Impartial, thoroughly-researched and easy to navigate, the 336-page trade paperback gives health travelers all the resources required to make safe, cost-effective decisions about traveling abroad for their healthcare.
Set to coincide with the Medical Tourism Asia 2007 conference February 26-28, the Asia launch of Patients Beyond Borders will take place as part of the program schedule with a special press conference featuring author Josef Woodman and industry leaders. Organized by IBC Asia, the conference marks one of the largest worldwide gatherings of medical tourism professionals, including top hospital administrators, medical associations, tourism boards, ministries of health and medical travel agents.
“Asia is the center of the new global healthcare village. Public and private interests in Singapore, Thailand, India and Malaysia have poured billions of dollars into their healthcare infrastructure, translating to huge upsides for medical treatment consumers,” said author Josef Woodman. “The Medical Tourism Asia 2007 conference is the ideal venue for the Asia launch of the book.”
Singapore has been an international healthcare destination since the 1980s, and 375,000 international patients visited Singapore’s hospitals and treatment centers in 2005. The country boasts 11 JCI-accredited hospitals—more than any other nation besides the US—and one-third of all JCI-accredited facilities in Asia.
More than 100 hospitals and clinics abroad now carry bona fide American accreditation. Patients Beyond Borders offers detailed listings on the best hospitals and clinics, standards, US and local accreditations, treatment specialties, health travel agents, and reviews of available procedures and costs. Patients Beyond Borders provides patients with a one-stop source of information and potential savings.
Author Josef Woodman spent three years researching the book, after his father journeyed abroad for extensive dental work in 2002. Woodman, with a pioneering background in health technology on the Web, began to investigate contemporary medical tourism: interviewing patients, practitioners, administrators, government officials and specialists in the field. He conducted an extensive analysis of safety records, accreditations, comparative costs, and consumer trends, and became a health traveler himself.
Healthy Travel Media, an independent imprint based in Chapel Hill, NC, publishes books and other information on medical travel, treatment, wellness and related topics. Patients Beyond Borders will be available at Amazon and bookstores everywhere. Qualified members of the media are invited to request an advance review copy.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Patients Beyond Borders Asia Launch: February 26, 12:45
Location
Sheraton Towers Hotel, Thirty-Nine Scotts Road, Singapore 228230
Media Contact
Judy Orchard +1 919 545 0668
Email: jorchard@patientsbeyondborders.com
http://www.patientsbeyondborders.com