Keynote Speakers
Prof. Dr. Dilaver
TENGİLİMOĞLU |
Head of the Business Administration Department of Atılım University,
Ankara, Turkey
Prof. Tengilimoğlu is the head of
the Business Administration Department of Atılım University, Ankara
Türkiye.
He has been an active member of the International Accreditation
Science Board at Turkish Health Care Quality and Accreditation
Institute (TUSKA) since 2020.
He is currently the chief editor of the international journal of
Health Management and Tourism (IJHMT). He also is a guest editor of
the Health Economics special issue by the Frontiers in Public Health
journal. He has also served as an advisory board member of many
international journals.
Some selected services that he has performed formerly are as
follows: served as guest editor for a special issue of the Health
Care Marketing Quarterly journal, vice dean of the Faculty of
Commerce and Tourism, founding head of the Health Administration
Department at Gazi University, director of Social Science Institute
at Atılım University and hospital manager in Hacettepe Children
Hospital and Medical School hospital of Gazi University. In 1998, he
worked as a post-doctoral fellow for six months in the department of
health management at the US Virginia Commonwealth University.
Additionally, he also worked as the general secretariat of the
Turkish Health Tourism Association.
Prof. Tengilimoğlu was a scientific committee member as the lead
scientist of the 8th International Health Tourism Congress in 2018.
Meanwhile, he was the chief scientist of a couple of health reform
and healthcare management projects sponsored by the Turkish Ministry
of Health, the World Bank, and the Erasmus-European Union.
Tengilimoğlu received the outstanding paper award at the Association
of Collegiate Marketing Education (ACME) conference in 2009 and
received a Distinguished Paper Award from the Federation of Business
Disciplines Congress in US in 2018, the Health Volunteers
Association Social Responsibility Success Award in Turkey in 2018,
He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in
reputational national and international journals, presented more
than 100 papers, and published 13 books in the health management,
health services marketing, and health tourism field.
Topic"Digitalization in Health and Health Tourism"
Abstract-Health tourism has a long past and existed throughout
history.
The global economic value created by the health tourism is
increasing and expected to increase further in the forthcoming
years. Once compared with other tourism types health tourism is of
the most growing area due to the growth in the market, the increased
number of alternatives and the competition between countries and
institutions.
Nearly 30 countries' efforts to get a share from health tourism
market, many countries such as India, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan,
Thailand, Turkey, Poland, Israel, as well as developed countries
such as the USA, Germany, England and Japan, have started to invest
in their existing resources to position themselves as health
destinations and attract health-conscious tourists. However, the
recent Covid-19 epidemic has affected health tourism as the other
industries.
During Covid-19 epidemic, digitalization such, robotic surgery,
e-health and tele-health services have increased. With these new
opportunities, international patients have gained a significant
advantage in accessing health services due to travel restrictions.
Its usage area has also become widespread. In addition,
technological methods such as te-rehabilitation were used in order
to reduce the increasing burden on the health system due to the
epidemic and to reduce the grievances of patient groups who have
chronic diseases and need continuous treatment.
Digitalization shows its effect in almost every field and provides
convenience to practitioners and users. Digitalization also finds
very important areas of use in the health tourism. Digitalization is
a system competence and must be used to make healthcare systems more
sustainable.
The use of mobile devices to monitor or detect biological changes in
the human body, and the sending of these data to health personnel
via the internet has provided an important advantage for
international patients and health institutions in health tourism.
Covid-19 epidemic and similar crises might be experienced again in
the world in the coming years. During crisis, digital health
services will be an important tool that can be widely used in health
tourism, especially in the provision of effective health services to
individuals who have limited mobility and who have difficulties in
accessing health services in their countries.
In this study, the general development of health tourism in the
world and the importance of digitalization in health in terms of
health tourism will be revealed.