Importance of International Medical Travel and Centers of Excellence During Medical Travel Month

 

 

Laura Carabello, Editor in Chief at Medical Travel & Digital Health News, the authoritative newsletter for medical tourism and digital health, to discuss international medical travel and Centers of Excellence during Medical Travel Month joins eHealth Radio and the Health News Channel.

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Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Laura Carabello discuss the following:

1. Tell us about Medical Travel & Digital Health News. How did it get started? What is it’s focus and global audience?
2. What is the significance of January Medical Travel Month?
3. Please describe international medical travel, inbound and outbound US medical travel. 
4. Why do people travel for care? Why do employers adopt medical travel benefits?
5. What are the characteristics of US Centers of Excellence? What services are typically offered for medical travelers?
6. Will medical travel continue during COVID?

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Laura Carabello, Chief Creative Officer, CPR Strategic Marketing Communications is an entrepreneur and strategy consultant in both domestic and international businesses related to healthcare, life sciences and medical devices, information technology, medical travel and managed care/benefits. Carabello has been instrumental in the growth and development of multiple companies and organizations both domestic and worldwide. She currently serves on the International Committee of the Self Insurance Institute of America (www.SIIA.org).

Founder and principal owner of CPR Strategic Marketing and Communications, (www.cpronline.com), Carabello has more than 25 years' experience in business development, marketing, and corporate positioning. As strategy consultant, she has worked with over 1,000 companies, including public and private organizations. She also serves as a strategic advisor to public, private and not-for-profit entities, and has been invited by the US Federal Trade Commission to testify on healthcare advertising and marketing ethics. Carabello was recently tapped to develop special projects for Forbes magazine.

Carabello conducts marketing presentations at high profile industry conferences where she addresses issues impacting healthcare providers, payers, employers and other stakeholders involved in the ecosystem. She has been invited by multi-national governments, hospital systems, and private sector companies to present at international meetings on healthcare and benefits issues.

She is the publisher and managing editor of Medical Travel & Digital Health News, the authoritative, online business-to business international newsletter of the medical tourism industry (www.medicaltraveltoday.com) as well as US Domestic Medical Travel (www.USDomesticMedicalTravel.com), the newsletter dedicated to US intra-state and inbound medical travel. In 2011, Carabello published Medical Travel Today: Opinions and Perspectives on an Industry in the Making. She also serves on the editorial board for the World Korean Medical Journal (WKMJ), a global organization of more than 140,000 Korean physicians dispersed throughout the world.

She has been invited for membership status in the Healthcare Women’s Leadership Trust, awarded the annual citation from the NJ Association of Women Business Owners; and was elected as a "Pioneer Woman of the 90s." She was named as a “Woman of Influence” by the YWCA of Bergen County, served on the Bergen County “YW” Board of Directors and was recently named a NJ business ICON by NJBIZ.

Ms. Carabello holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University, and she is a candidate for a Master's Degree.

Website: https://medicaltraveltoday.com

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