It’s time for new year’s lists. Here are my Top 10 Medical Tourism trends for the new year.

1. Global healthcare information exchanges
2. Commoditization of healthcare and the disintermediation of professionals
3. eBay mechanism to auction global healthcare services
4. Erosion and redefinition of professionalism and ethics
5. New heatlhcare insurance products designed to empower patients
6. Changes in global healthcare workforce
7. Global quality and price information exchanges and growth of domestic medical tourism
8. Growth of programs offering MBA’s in medical tourism
9. Evolution of medical toursm nurses and advocates
10. Electronic markets offering unused healthcare capacity.

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