Next March, it is time for Turkey Healthcare Summit 2012, held in Istanbul March 21-22 2012. The summit is organized by Euroconvention Conferences, the organization behind other successful events such as Turkey Healthcare Infrastructure Investment & Finance Summit 2011, and MENA Healthcare Infrastructure Investment & Finance Summit 2010. 

The forerunners of Turkey’s transformation are local private healthcare investors. These investors are beginning to move. Turkey’s health services standards and quality by employing state-of-the-art treatment and state-of-the-art medical technologies. Today, entrepreneurs and doctors have not only created a greatly improved quality of service for local patients but also for global healthcare seekers. Private medical infrastructure in Turkey is now a well-built option in the global medical tourism arena. Moreover, with an increasing and prospering population of 72,5 million, Turkish health industry offers significant still untapped opportunities for foreign investors as well.

Main topics addressed at Turkey Healthcare Summit 2012

• Medical tourism 
• Health transformation program and new policies
• Financing healthcare infrastructure and best PPP practices and options
• E-health, telemedicine and medical information technology
• Long-term opportunities for investment in the Turkish healthcare market
• Healthcare services delivery – management and funding
• Technology expertise to increase Turkeys medical equipment exports 
• Healthcare financing reform and the broadening of the private health insurance market
• Turkey pharmaceutical insight

Medical Tourism in Turkey – The Way Ahead

For the medical tourism guide Novasans and its readers, the panel session Medical Tourism in Turkey – The Way Ahead is particularly interesting. During this session, a panel will discuss Turkey’s role as an emerging player in the rapidly growing medical tourism industry, and how Turkey can adjust to the European health tourism policy. Another topic included in this session is key developments within Turkey’s famous Spa and Wellness industry, with Turkey’s Thermal and Thalasso Therapy Facilities as a key attraction point. Some of the confirmed speakers for this event are Zeki Karagülle, President of Turkish Spas Thalasso and Health Resorts Association, Rusen Yildirim, President of Health Tourism Business Council, Foreign Economic Board of Turkey (DEIK) and Dursum Aydin, Chairman of the Executive Board, Association of Health Tourism in Turkey. 

For more information on Turkey Healthcare Summit 2012, please visit Euroconvention Conferences’ website.