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A Study on the Medical Tourism and Activation : With focus on Medical Communication

의료관광의 활성화를 위한 제언: 의료커뮤니케이션을 중심으로

  • Received : 2014.01.28
  • Accepted : 2014.03.20
  • Published : 2014.03.28

Abstract

This paper is concerned with medical tourism, which is expected to become the new growth engine of the 21st century. Medical tourism is a collaborative and synergistic composition of Healthcare and Tourism, and has led to a remarkable growth in 2012 since the year 2009, exhibiting huge growth potential. This paper reviews the emerging market of the medical tourism with five major hospitals in Korea from the perspective of medical tourists, and makes suggestions for the global health care and the sustainable development in Korean medical tourism as a growth market: the construction of websites for active services and transparent management of medical expenses with proper arrangement of medical consulting and advices, cooperation of the health care center and the medical tourism industry, and the activation of healthcare communication. For the smooth progress of medical tourism, this paper suggests two separate communication channels: one for the patient tourists and the other for the medical tourism coordinators. The former needs accuracy with professional knowledge on the healthcare and communication, which should be classified as medical interpreters working with disease-oriented medical tourists. The latter refers to international medical coordinators dedicated to the smooth progress of medical tourism and services. This paper also points out the creative efforts to improve the relatively poor infrastructure of tourism industry to accommodate the medical tourists, and improve the medical tourism industry.

본 논문에서는 21세기 신성장 동력산업으로 세계적인 관심을 받고 있는 의료관광에 대해서 살펴보고자 한다. 의료와 관광이 협조적인 구도하에서 시너지 효과를 가져오게 되는 의료관광은 2009년을 원년으로 도약하기 시작하여 2012년 현재 괄목한 성장을 보이며 성장하고 있다. 본고에서는 성장하는 의료관광시장을 조망해보고 향후 지속적인 발전과 글로벌 한국의료의 성장을 위해 발전적 제언을 하고자 한다. 이를 위해서한국의 5대 대형병원의 의료관광객 유치에 대해 살펴보고 이를 근거로 의료비의 투명한 관리와 적극적인 서비스를 위한 홈페이지 구축, 의료업계와 관광업계의 협력구도제안 및 의료커뮤니케이션의 활성화를 제안한다. 즉 질병위주의 치유목적적 의료관광객의 정확한 의사소통을 위한 전문의료 통역사의 양성과 의료관광의 원할한 진행과 서비스를 위한 국제의료코디네이터양성의 이중 채널 커뮤니케이션이 필요하다. 또한 의료계에 비해 상대적으로 열악한 관광업계의 인프라 구축을 위한 창의적인 노력이 필요함을 지적하였다.

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