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- August 27, 2009
Super-Interactive IAMAT Web System Makes Vital Travel Health Information Instantly Available
- You’ve just arrived in Madrid, after hiking the legendary Camino de Santiago pilgrim route in northern Spain. Your left foot is blistered and swollen, and you have a mild fever. Is there an English-speaking doctor in town?
- Your daughter is getting ready to backpack through Vietnam. What shots will she need?
- Your company is sending you to a conference in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Is it safe to eat the red snapper at the buffet?
- You’re heading to Ghana to volunteer. You’ve been told to guard against schistosomiasis. What the heck is schistosomiasis???
Click here for answers to these questions.
- Find out why guidebook guru Arthur Frommer calls iamat.org “one of the key websites of travel.”
For fifty years, IAMAT, the International Association for Medical Assistance to Travellers, has been providing its members with booklets, charts and pamphlets packed with vital travel health advice.
Now, with the launch of their new SNAP DESIGN-produced web system, iamat.org, IAMAT’s respected Medical Directory and travel health guides are freely available online. Click on the site’s interactive world map, or select a country from the drop-down menu, to get an instant, complete travel health profile for more than 90 countries.
You’ll need to join IAMAT to access their list of accredited doctors and clinics around the world, but signing up online is quick, easy and free (donations keenly appreciated!)—IAMAT membership entitles you to ongoing access to the Medical Directory, and the ability to plug in your destinations to create your very own Travel Health Planner. Touring Brazil, Argentina and Chile? Choose each country’s profile to assemble your custom report on doctors, immunization requirements, disease risks and food and water conditions.
Key Features of the IAMAT Web System >
Moving at Warp Speed
IAMAT’s new information-packed web system is a spectacular gift to the travelling public. It’s also a spectacular shift—from a snail-mail, print-based, manual operation to a supercharged online service centre. Here’s how IAMAT’s new database-driven web system has transformed the organization’s services:
Instant Membership/Instant Access – No more waiting for membership packages to arrive in the mail. Travellers can join IAMAT and start using the all-important international Medical Directory within minutes. They can create and save personal Travel Health Planners based on their travel itinerary, and access them from any internet connection around the world—including their I-Phones. Now, vital travel information is only a login away—and print versions can be downloaded at any time.
Expanded Reach/ Greater Impact – IAMAT’s meticulously-researched travel health reports, once available only in print form, are now available to all. Will you need a yellow fever vaccination? Is there a risk of contracting malaria? Should you take measures to prevent mosquito bites? Find out instantly by viewing IAMAT’s public-access, country-by-country Travel Health Advice.
Big Overhead Savings - IAMAT’s new online hub is also delivering major administrative benefits to the cost conscious organization. Fully-automated membership sign-up and renewal are reducing operating overhead, and streamlined online donation processes are woven strategically into user sequences to boost revenues. With online membership applications, downloadable membership cards and publications, and official tax receipts delivered instantly by email, IAMAT is reducing paper, printing, mailing and processing costs—while vastly increasing customer service.
Self-Managed Content - Above all, IAMAT now has the technology to do what it does best: keep travellers healthy by keeping them informed. The web system’s custom-built Content Management System, along with Travel Health Blog and E-Newsletter tool s, gives IAMAT staff unlimited updating and broadcast ability.
To join IAMAT and make a donation to support its fine service to travellers, please click here.
IAMAT Web System:
Mike Hodgson, Administrative System Developer
Dan Ireland, Design, Layout, HTML/Javascript Developer
Kara Wilkinson, Design Assistant
Liz Mayer, Producer
