Welcome to InterMed Global, where

the medical traveler's journey is always

one of safety, excellence, and trust.

For more than 5 years, international patients have trusted us to lead them safely along the path of medical treatment and care abroad.

In learning how to facilitate medical travel for patients from around the world, we have come to understand how complex and complicated medical care for a medical traveler can be.

With most people in the developed world enjoying excellent health because of higher living standards, superior health care earlier in life, and access to wellness programs and information, very few have had direct experience preparing for or having surgery.

While in the lesser developed world, people dare not challenge their doctor's diagnosis or treatment plan, and dare not request respect or dignity in care.

All of these international patients are vulnerable in large and small ways that hospitals or doctors usually do not understand or cannot provide help for them.

We have seen, time and again, how the medical travel community does not recognize how exposed and vulnerable international patients are. Patients also are not aware. With awareness and a commitment to the highest standards within the medical tourism industry, patients will begin to have less concerns.

What's new

• Health care costs for Americans to rise 5.7% in 2009
• Canadian doctor shortage leads to cherry-picking patients.
• IMTA responds to rising trend of ad hoc “accreditors”
• IMTA responds to AMA first ever guidelines on medical tourism.
• 99-year-old New York woman undergoes successful heart surgery.