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CLEVELAND CLINIC Medical travel dates back as ACCORDING TO ZEIN,

far as ancient Greece, but
SOME OF THE EXISTING
over the years the landscape
CHALLENGES FOR
ON THE CHANGING for medical travel has MEDICAL TOURISM
INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
changed considerably due
to a variety of reasons. Most
recently, Dr. Zein told MTM,
LANDSCAPE OF that changes are driven by Travel issues,

economic growth and that,
finances for travel
due to economic indicators,
and visa delays
MEDICAL TOURISM the destinations people Money transfers
travel to will change every so
often.
to pay for medical
In addition to economics, treatments can be
difficult, depending
some changes in the medical on the stability of
travel industry today are the country
By: Medical Tourism Magazine “How we take care of medical Nizar Zein, MD, driven by technology. More
Department Head of and more, people are able to High level of
travelers is very different from Liver Disease and resolve their health-related hospitality services

Chairman of Global issues remotely with the use not always
place to place -- we are trying Patient Services at the of telemedicine. available in the

combined approaches. We are Cleveland Clinic, spoke U.S.; this involves
at the 2016 World “I predict that medical travel offering more than
available to patients who want Medical Tourism & will continue to evolve over just a discount to
time and will never be a
medical travelers
Global Healthcare static business. But the
to come to the U.S. for treatment, Congress’s Medical reasons that people travel Creating an

but are also available to patients Director Summit. for care and the markets appropriate culture
Afterwards, he sat down they travel to will also of empathy for
around the globe” with Medical Tourism change over time. It seems foreign patients
Magazine and discussed that right now the trend for
the changing medical medical travel is for the
purpose of preventative
tourism landscape how health and wellness,” said
hospitals are adapting. Zein.

ONE OF THE WAYS THAT THE CLEVELAND CLINIC IS

ADAPTING TO THIS CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF MEDICAL
TOURISM IS BY ESTABLISHING HOSPITALS OUTSIDE

OF THE UNITED STATES.

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