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Minnesota saw only a partial eclipse in 2017, but providers reported a handful of eye injuries due to the event. 

Dr. Tullawat Pacharapha of Vejthani Hospital sees a shift coming in Thailand's medical tourism industry.

The president-elect has already laid out a plan that many feel will cause massive disruption to the industry.

While there are currently only 22 proton therapy centers in the United States, the growing interest in the advanced cancer therapy is causing more hospitals to weigh the benefits against the high cost of opening their own centers.

As more international patients are traveling to the United States to seek medical care, Boston-based Flywire has rolled out a new platform that hospitals can use to make it easier for providers to ensure payment from medical tourists.

The medical tourism industry must respond to the problems found in surrogacy tourism. The first is the need for medical tourism companies, brokers, clinics and even hospitals to hold patient funds in escrow. Abuse of patient trust by misappropriating funds should no longer be an issue.

For those in the medical tourism industry, the issue of "surrogacy tourism" or commercial surrogacy is not an issue of morality. Whatever one believes, there is a need for surrogacy services and people will take chances with the law in order to have children.

Craig Johnson has worked in the senior living industry for the past 20 years. What he has seen is a movement to put them in the "back 40" -- because they are considered elderly and sick and should be placed out of sight.

Union Village, an integrated health community where seniors can both live and receive healthcare services may be the future of healthcare.

With hospital margins growing tighter and bad debt increasing, improving revenue cycle becomes more important than ever. Here are some tips to do that.