Care AbroadOrganizations (28)
Accreditors, ministries, trade bodies, registries, the societies that write the standards.
Accreditors (10)
ACHSI, Australian Council on Healthcare Standards International
The international subsidiary of the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards, a not-for-profit that has developed healthcare standards since 1974 and is an authorised accrediting agency of the Australian Commission on…
AACI, AACI Healthcare
An independent accreditation body registered in the United States and run from Hendersonville, North Carolina.
DNV, Det Norske Veritas, NIAHO
The healthcare accreditation arm of DNV, a Norwegian assurance and classification company founded in 1864, owned by the Det Norske Veritas Foundation and run from Høvik outside Oslo.
GHA
An accreditation body founded in 2016 for medical travel rather than for clinical care.
HAI, HA Thailand, สถาบันรับรองคุณภาพสถานพยาบาล
Thailand's national hospital accreditation body, a public organisation established by the Royal Decree on the Establishment of the Healthcare Accreditation Institute, B.E.
ISQua EEA, IEEA, the accreditor of accreditors
The body that assesses the bodies. Established by the International Society for Quality in Health Care in 2018 and trading from 2019, registered in Switzerland, it runs an International Accreditation Programme in four…
JCI
The international arm of the Joint Commission, the body that accredits hospitals in the United States.
NABH
India's hospital accreditation board, set up in 2005 as a constituent board of the Quality Council of India.
CBAHI
Saudi Arabia's national healthcare accreditation body, a not-for-profit established in October 2005 on the recommendation of the Council of Health Services.
Temos, Temos International GmbH
A German accreditation company founded in 2010 and run from Bergisch Gladbach, near Cologne.
Facilitators (1)
defiant.to
A medical-travel facilitator based in Chiang Mai, working with patients from the United States.
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Ministries (4)
NCPs, National Contact Points
The information bodies each EU member state must designate under Directive 2011/24/EU on patients' rights in cross-border healthcare.
KHIDI, 한국보건산업진흥원
A government-affiliated institute under South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare.
MHTC
A Malaysian government agency set up in 2005 and incorporated as an independent entity in 2011 to promote and coordinate the country's healthcare travel trade.
Sağlık Hizmetleri Genel Müdürlüğü, SHGM, Sağlık Turizmi Daire Başkanlığı
The General Directorate of Health Services inside Türkiye's Ministry of Health, and its Health Tourism Department, which issues the authorisation certificate a facility must hold before it may treat an international…
Non-governmental (3)
DICG
The body that keeps the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism.
OECD, OCDE
An intergovernmental organisation of 38 member countries, founded in 1961 as successor to the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation of 1948, headquartered at the Château de la Muette in Paris.
WHO, OMS
The United Nations health agency, established on 7 April 1948 and based in Geneva. Its governing body, the World Health Assembly, is made up of 193 member states.
Professional societies (3)
ESHRE
The European professional society for reproductive medicine and embryology, founded in 1985 and run from Strombeek-Bever outside Brussels.
ISAPS
The international professional society for board-certified aesthetic plastic surgeons, founded in 1970 with its charter signed at the United Nations in New York, registered at 19 Morgan Drive, Lebanon, New Hampshire…
ISHRS
The international professional society for hair restoration surgeons, incorporated in 1993, run from Elgin, Illinois, and reporting 1,200 members across 80 countries.
Registries (2)
European Statistical Office, DG ESTAT
The statistical office of the European Union, a Directorate-General of the European Commission based in the Kirchberg district of Luxembourg City.
ICMART, International Committee Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technologies
The world registry of assisted reproduction: an independent non-profit that describes itself as having "taken the leading role in the development, collection and dissemination of worldwide data on assisted reproductive…
Regulators (2)
DHA, هيئة الصحة بدبي
The health regulator of one emirate. In its own words, "Dubai Health Authority (DHA) is the regulatory body responsible for overseeing and governing the healthcare sector in the Emirate of Dubai", with a mandate…
HFEA
The United Kingdom's fertility regulator, and the body that licenses every clinic in the country performing IVF, donor insemination or research on human embryos.
Trade bodies (3)
IMTJ
A British trade publication covering cross-border care, established in 2007 and edited by Keith Pollard.
MTA
A non-profit membership organisation founded in 2007 and run from West Palm Beach, Florida, serving the industry that sells cross-border care: healthcare providers, referral organisations, insurers and governments.
Council for the International Promotion of Costa Rica Medicine, Consejo para la Promoción Internacional de la Medicina de Costa Rica
Costa Rica's membership body for providers serving international patients, now run within the Cámara Costarricense de la Salud, the country's health chamber.