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Leading Health Insurance Magazine iPMIM Provides International Healthcare News Under 1 Roof

Leading Health Insurance Magazine iPMIM Provides International Healthcare News Under 1 Roof

Turkey Healthcare Publishers also produce the leading online health insurance magazine, International Private Medical Insurance Magazine. International Private Medical Insurance Magazine is the definitive online health insurance magazine, and ultimate guide to private medical insurance providers, underwriters, brokers, intermediaries and companies. iPMI Magazine provides detailed product and service information from leading providers of international private medical insurance (iPMI), private medical insurance (pmi), health insurance, travel insurance, and expatriate health insurance cover and plans. iPMI Magazine details private medical insurance providers; the advantages and disadvantages of private medical insurance; international private medical insurance Vs travel insurance; private medical insurance comparison; iPMI Magazine...

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 31 Jul 2012 Turkey Healthcare International News

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Covering Your Back - Healthcare Isn't Just About Emergencies Says MediCare International

Covering Your Back - Healthcare Isn't Just About Emergencies Says MediCare International

Having the right international private healthcare is sometimes associated with emergency situations, such as evacuation from the middle of a jungle, life threatening cases of Malaria or major heart surgery on the other side of the world. The policyholder tells the story with a sense of relief, that he or she had the right cover at the right time. The truth is, the majority of health claims reflect the general day-to-day health problems people suffer from in their everyday lives, although being abroad can exacerbate certain conditions. Leading expatriate international private health insurer MediCare International looked at the top types...

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 24 Jul 2012 Healthcare In Turkey News

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IPMI Magazine: A Definitive Online Guide to Private Medical and Health Insurance

IPMI Magazine: A Definitive Online Guide to Private Medical and Health Insurance

International Private Medical Insurance Magazine is the definitive online health insurance magazine, and ultimate guide to private medical insurance providers, underwriters, brokers, intermediaries and companies. iPMI Magazine provides detailed product and service information from leading providers of international private medical insurance (iPMI), private medical insurance (pmi), health insurance, travel insurance, and expatriate health insurance cover and plans. iPMI Magazine details private medical insurance providers; the advantages and disadvantages of private medical insurance; international private medical insurance Vs travel insurance; private medical insurance comparison; iPMI Magazine acts as a worldwide guide to private medical insurance, with the most up-to-date news and views...

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 24 Jul 2012 Healthcare In Turkey News

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Turkish Healthcare Takes Big Strides Forward

Turkish Healthcare Takes Big Strides Forward

Turkey's health care system illustrates well how health standards have improved rapidly in recent decades, partly as a result of higher health spending. In 2003 the government introduced major health reforms aimed at solving the problem of poor rural healthcare resources and making health care available to a larger share of the population. As a result of these changes, the private healthcare sector has developed quickly, with the reputation the state run hospitals have for long queues and poor personal service acting as a catalyst. In 2006 there was one doctor for every 700 people, one nurse for every 580...

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 18 Jul 2012 Healthcare In Turkey News

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Healthcare Turkey News:Turkish hospital chain Acibadem Group acquired by Malaysian fund Integrated Healthcare Holding (IHH)

Healthcare In Turkey Breaking News December 19 2011 Istanbul, Turkey. The owner of Turkey’s largest private hospital chain, the Acibadem Group, has reached a deal with Integrated Healthcare Holding (IHH) of Malaysian sovereign fund Khazanah Nasional for the sale of its majority stakes. Acibadem owners, Dubai-based Abraaj Capital, and founder Mehmet Ali Aydinlar agreed to a transfer of a 60 percent share to IHH and a 15 percent share to Khazanah, according to an application made to the Turkish Competition Authority. The deal will leave Acibadem’s 25 percent stake with Aydinlar, while making the Turkish hospital chain...

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 19 Dec 2011 Healthcare In Turkey News

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Now Health International Expat, Health and Medical Insurance Provider Exceeds 6 Key Promises

IPMI Magazine Travel Insurance, Private Medical and Health Insurance News LONDON, 7 October 2011. After just six months Now Health International has convincingly met and exceeded the six key service promises that the company set itself on its launch in January of this year. The new international health insurance provider made a service commitment from the outset to its customers - both intermediaries and planholders - with the public pronouncement of six key promises.

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 10 Oct 2011 Healthcare In Turkey News

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Park Medical Health Control, passed Fernando Muslera

Galatasaray Football Team's new goalkeeper Fernando Muslera, Medical Park Hospital Hospital health check passed. Uruguay Copa America Cup, the championship kurtarışlarla achieving 'the lion' share of the team's new goalkeeper Fernando Muslera with red and yellow, Istanbul, health check as soon as his feet were dust. During the exercise test, which poses cheerful 25-year old goalkeeper said to be in good health.

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 15 Aug 2011 Healthcare In Turkey News

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"Turkey represents a significant growth opportunity for AMS" American Shared Hospital CEO Ernest A. Bates

American Shared Hospital Services Reports Second Quarter Results Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ernest A. Bates, M.D., said, "Higher Perfexion procedure volume, the result of our strategy to upgrade many of our existing Gamma Knife sites to Gamma Knife Perfexion specifications, contributed to the improvements in gross margin and operating income for the second quarter and first half of 2011 versus prior year. We continue to move this upgrade program forward. In June we announced that the Perfexion system AMS supplied to Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico began treating patients. This system is an upgrade to the Gamma...

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 13 Aug 2011 Healthcare In Turkey News

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Medical Tourism Turkey:Leading International Hospital providers among suitors for a stake in Turkey’s largest hospital chain

Parkway Holdings, Fortis Healthcare International and Life Healthcare Group Holdings are among suitors for a stake in Turkey's largest hospital chain: Acibadem Saglik Hizmetleri & Ticaret. Cinven and CVC Capital Partners made bids, said inside sources. Dubai-based Abraaj Capital, which owns 46% of Acibadem, hiredGoldman Sachs Group and Bank of America Merrill Lynch in June to study options for the stake. Currently Acibadem has a market value of 1.8 billion lira ($1 billion). Acibadem runs 11 general hospitals, eight medical centers and a laboratory and genetic diagnostic center in Turkey, according to its website. Acibadem was unchanged at...

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 13 Aug 2011 Healthcare In Turkey News

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Medical Tourism Turkey: CIGNA Expands Global Operations to Turkey

CIGNA Hayat Sigorta S.A. Opens for Business CIGNA, a leader in direct marketing of supplemental health, life and accident insurance in the international marketplace, has received its license to market its products in Turkey CIGNA Turkey will offer innovative products and services that are simple to understand, affordable and easy to access through a variety of channels The new operation is located in Istanbul, staffed by local residents ISTANBUL, August 09, 2011 - CIGNA (NYSE: CI), a leader in direct marketed supplemental health, life and accident insurance in the international marketplace, today announced the launch of a new office and operations in Turkey. CIGNA...

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 09 Aug 2011 Healthcare In Turkey News

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Medical Tourism Turkey:1st Turkish Total Artificial Heart PatientDischarged Using Freedom® Portable Driver

// SynCardia Systems, Inc. manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart, announced end June 2011 that Florence Nightingale Hospital in Istanbul has discharged Turkey's first Total Artificial Heart patient to wait for a matching donor heart at home using the Freedom® portable driver. Weighing 13.5 pounds, the Freedom driver is the world's first wearable portable driver designed to power SynCardia's Total Artificial Heart both inside and outside the hospital. "Initially, we had concerns about switching our patient to the Freedom driver because he is really a big guy," said surgeon Prof. Dr. Deniz Suha Kucukaksu. "However, our...

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 06 Aug 2011 Healthcare In Turkey News

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Medical Tourism Turkey:Turkısh Airlines Supports Medical Tourism and health travel to Turkey

Turkish Airlines has rolled up its sleeves to boost Turkey’s share in medical tourism, a worldwide business currently worth 60 billion U.S. dollars and expected to hit the 100 billion dollar mark in 2012. A ‘Medical Tourism Package’ has been put together for this purpose. Under the terms of the package, patients coming from abroad who present a ‘Patient Admission Paper’ from a certified health care institution at ticketing and check-in have already begun to benefit from a series of discounts and conveniences.

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 19 Jan 2011 Healthcare In Turkey News

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Turkey Healthcare Infrastructure Investment & Finance Summit, February 2011 in Istanbul.

The Turkish health system is in transition. As a part of the government's Health Transformation Programme, institutional and organizational reforms are underway, which aim to assure universal access to health insurance and health services. The proposed Summit will enable attendees and speakers to explore key issues, network and build personal relationships with key business and political decision-makers and to explore business opportunities in the development of healthcare infrastructure, financial and investment in Turkey.

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 19 Jan 2011 Healthcare In Turkey News

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Medical Tourism Turkey: Rosier Days ahead for Turkey Medical Tourism and Travel Industry

Turkey has emerged as one of the most popular destinations in Europe for medical tourism. The country’s medical tourism industry has unprecedentedly grown over the past few years. Being a source as well as destination market, the Turkish medical tourism industry revenue is expected to increase manifold in the coming years. It is anticipated that the number of medical tourists will rise at a CAGR of around 28% during 2010-2013 on account of the government support. The government has been readily spending on the promotional activities to boost the nation’s medical tourism industry.

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 19 Jan 2011 Healthcare In Turkey News

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Medical Tourism in Turkey: Major reform in Turkey’s healthcare: Family practitioner system

Public health centers have now become Family Health Centers as part of Turkey’s efforts to harmonize with the EU. The family practitioner system, which provides low-cost health care by local doctors instead of the current high-priced services at hospitals, was implemented across Turkey’s 81 provinces in late 2010. The aim of the initiative is to enable the health care system to run more efficiently, despite some initial difficulties during its implementation. The family practitioner system first began in the northwestern province of Düzce, which was selected as a pilot region in 2005, and later started in other provinces before...

Healthcare Turkey - avatar Healthcare Turkey 19 Jan 2011 Healthcare In Turkey News

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News - Healthcare In Turkey News

Healthcare In Turkey Breaking News December 19 2011 Istanbul, Turkey. The owner of Turkey’s largest private hospital chain, the Acibadem Group, has reached a deal with Integrated Healthcare Holding (IHH) of Malaysian sovereign fund Khazanah Nasional for the sale of its majority stakes. Acibadem owners, Dubai-based Abraaj Capital, and founder Mehmet Ali Aydinlar agreed to a transfer of a 60 percent share to IHH and a 15 percent share to Khazanah, according to an application made to the Turkish Competition Authority. The deal will leave Acibadem’s 25 percent stake with Aydinlar, while making the Turkish hospital chain the world’s second largest in terms of bed capacity. Abraaj Capital, meanwhile, will completely leave the enterprise it had bought for about USD 600 million in 2008. The value of the transaction is said to be around USD 650 million. Turkey’s healthcare sector in recent years has witnessed other significant partnerships and buyouts, attracting investors from both the West and East. The world’s second largest equity investor, US-based Carlyle Group, bought shares in Medical Healthcare, owner of Medical Park hospital chain in 2009, while in last May, Universal Healthcare Group’s 26 percent shares were acquired by the trio of Hong Kong-based Asia Debt Management Capital, Dutch PGGM NV and the World Bank’s International Finance Corp. for USD 140 million. Another notable investment in Turkey’s healthcare industry had been last year’s 40 percent share acquisition of Memorial Healthcare Group by Argus Capital Partners and Qatar First Investment Bank. Healthcare In Turkey Breaking News December 19 2011 Istanbul, Turkey.


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From the publishers of International Private Medical Insurance Magazine and Healthcare Technology Magazine comes a dynamic new online platform, specifically focused on Healthcare in Turkey. TURKIYE HEALTHCARE delivers daily news, articles, interviews and industry analysis, covering all aspects of the business, including insurance, expatriate life, healthcare, culture, assistance, air ambulance, ground ambulance, cost containment, third party administration, travel, tourism, hospitality, events, and conferences.

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