Cross-border healthcare: problems concerning the “medical error”

Transnational healthcare, cross-border perspectives.

Cross-border healthcare? The Polish experience

Patients with rare diseases are spread all over large distances, resulting in difficulty to find proper medical experts and centres and use new modern therapies. Cross-border healthcare enables equality in availability of medical services and the best medical care all over the world for affected patients regardless of their place of residence. In our centre, the cross-border healthcare is based...

Efficiency effects of cross-border medical demand

There is a growing interest in cross-border medical care and its comparative advantages. In addition, medical care can be defined as a local assurance good. Little research is being carried out in this field. This paper discusses the individual considerations for medical treatment offered at home and abroad within a micro-economical framework. Specific assumptions as mistrust, monetary and non-...

A Qualitative Analysis of Cross-border Healthcare Utilisation by Nigerians across the Nigeria-cameroun Border

Background: The border between Nigeria and Cameroun stretches for hundreds of kilometers. The movement of patients from Maiduguri, NE Nigeria into Cameroun’s border hospitals is becoming very popular. This study investigated the categories of people involved in such movement, their healthcare needs in Cameroun and the motivation behind the movement. Methods: In-depth interviews with fifteen par...

Foreign Currency-Related Translation Complexities in Cross-Border Healthcare Applications

International cross-border private hospital chains need to apply the standards for foreign currency translation in order to consolidate the balance sheet and income statements. This not only exposes such chains to exchange rate fluctuations in different ways, but also creates added requirements for enterprise-level IT systems especially when they produce parameters which are used to measure the...