AAAASFI Presentation System for International Accreditation
Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Ilene Little
Last Tuesday July 13th, we received the visit of the Vice President of the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities International (AAAASFI), Mr. Jeff Pearcy, at Riande Continental hotel, in Panama City, for the launching of their program ´Patient Safety through Accreditation¨. The event was attended by numerous dental clinics, diagnostic centers and ambulatory surgery clinics, to learn more about this world known accreditation...
My Second Home in Panama is my First Choice for Surgical Procedures
Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Ilene Little
Baby Boomer Cherly Taplin Prefers Panama over U.S. for Surgical Travel A five hour flight from Lafayette, Louisiana transports a couple to a different, more cosmopolitan world. Cheryl Taplin spends about 10 days to three weeks every three months in her Panama City condo. “I’ve settled on Panama for our second home,” said Taplin, “We’ve been doing this for three years and it’s worked out really well for us. It allows us to go to other places...
Caribbean & Latin America Wellness Conference
Posted on January 21st, 2010 by admin
Caribbean and Latin America Inbound-Outbound Health and Wellness Tourism “The Doctor of the future will give no medicine,but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame.In Diet and in the prevention of Diesease.” 7-16-1870 by Thomas Edison There is a battle between Health- Medical Tourism and the Wellness industry whereby the Health- Medical sector is using its wealth to discredit the Wellness practitioners as quacks and...
The History of Caribbean Health and Spa Symposium
Posted on January 21st, 2010 by eric
Positive Tourism Limited is an integrated tourism marketing communications and management company based in Negril, Jamaica W.I. We have developed a niche in ITC, Tourism Marketing, Public Relations and Health Tourism Integration. The Company has used the communication medium of radio broadcasting and Internet publishing to reach its target market of tourism professionals, travel trade, tourist board and students in the Caribbean. The Company produced...
Retirement: Why Panama Is the New Florida
Posted on October 5th, 2009 by admin
Panama’s quality health care, low costs, and proximity to the states are attracting American professionals as a retirement haven. Prospective retirees: Panama wants you. The pitch? A plane ride just 21/2 hours from Miami enables the newly poor to swap a wretched retirement in the U.S. for one befitting a royal in the balmy Central American nation. Cash out! Emigrate! Feel rich! Panama—the new Florida. Spin aside, Panama is increasingly popular...
U.S. insurance starting to cover medical treatments abroad
Posted on August 23rd, 2009 by admin
Panama Investor Blog By Sam Taliaferro U.S. insurance starting to cover medical treatments abroad I have often thought that U.S. insurance companies should be taking advantage of the much lower cost of medical care in foreign countries. There has always been the concern of lower quality of care, but it seems more insurance companies are embracing the idea lately. Obviously it just comes down to cost for employers, employees and the insurance companies....
Intracorneal Rings ~ A Transplant-Free Solution
Posted on August 4th, 2009 by admin
Dr. Ilka De Obaldía The cornea is a transparent structure that covers the front of the eye and allows light to enter it. Any alteration in that window which produces a spot or irregularity generates a bad image, which translates into bad vision. Keratoconus is a rare eye condition in which the shape of the cornea is distorted. Its center becomes thinner and weakens slowly, taking the shape of a cone (fig 1), producing a patchy image on the retina...
Hotel Riande Club at Coronado ~ Health Tourism Destination
Posted on July 15th, 2009 by admin
Recently, the Riande Hotel chain and the Coronado Beach Resort joined forces and made a strategic alliance, to offer the best of both hotels, at the same affordable prices, so you can enjoy Panama City, as well as our beaches and beautiful interior with our alliance. The Riande Hotel chain invites you to visit its Wellness Spa, from the Riande Club at Coronado. Where every minute counts, where every second is enjoyed, a place designed to indulge...
Ozonetherapy
Posted on July 15th, 2009 by admin
Oxygen is in everything, from the air we breathe to the water we drink. Used for over a century, we have found one more use for this life-necessary element that has been used to treat and cure some of life’s common diseases and infections. Oxygen, in its many forms, cycles through the atmosphere and, in all metabolic processes, as it does water. Ozone is produced in the upper atmosphere when UV rays react with the oxygen that forms from plants,...
Medical tourism gets new impetus
Posted on July 12th, 2009 by admin
The Panama Post Luis M. Blanco In a world in crisis, everybody seeks to reduce health costs; this opens an opportunity for wellness services in emerging countries like panama. To compete for a market that comprises more than one millon consumers, to make the country a destination for medical tourism, to obtain quality certifications, and to create a medical tourism association, are some of the ambitious tasks set by ageless wonders panama, the first...
