Designing Factfinding for Cross-Border Healthcare

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...

MARQulS: quality improvement strategies for European cross-border healthcare

This supplement is focused on the methods, results and recommendations from the research project ‘‘Methods of Assessing Response to Quality Improvement Strategies’’ (MARQuIS). MARQuIS was funded by the Scientific Support to Policies component of the European Union Sixth Framework Research Programme (Contract SP21-CT2004-513712), and it lasted from January 2004 to June 2008. MARQuIS was coordina...

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...

Financial Burden of Border Hospital in Caring for Cross-Border Patients: A Short Note From Thailand