It is confirmed: Babylon, a healthcare app allowing patients to consult a doctor on their phones, is launching in Rwanda in June. Prem Sharma, head of product, also introduced a new service that will offer a complete virtual GP experience thanks to an Artificial Intelligence (AI) triage system, at the Healthcare Business International 2016 conference's most popular session.
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The cost of getting culture wrong in long-term care
Cultural issues are at the forefront of the difficulties in running and investing into long-term care in emerging markets. At the Healthcare Business International 2016 conference, the CEOs of Senior Assist, Belgium’s third largest care home operator and a player in Latin America and Turkey, and TVM Capital, a private equity firm investing in rehabilitation in the Middle East, shared their views on the sector.
May 3, 2016
Esperi Care expects homecare/assisted living boom in Finland
Esperi Care, the third largest elderly care player in Finland, says it expects a boom in services-heavy assisted living for new division Saga Care. A new voucher system also introduces more choice, says Marja Aarnio-Isohanni, CEO of Esperi Care. This will expand homecare and also allow the elderly to choose between various care services.
May 3, 2016
Svet Zdravia bets on more privatisations in Czechia
Although the current Czech government is not keen on hospital privatisations, Penta-owned Slovak chain Svet Zdravia, with €160m revenues and 14 hospitals, expects the mood to change after the 2016 elections. But Central Europe remains marked by strong government interference and the misuse of public funds.
April 29, 2016
Danish private hospitals fight new status
As private hospitals in Denmark form a new association bringing together rehabilitation and preventive care providers, a new regulation changing the status of hospitals is coming under fire from the private sector. We speak to Bent Jakobsen, vice-president of the new association and medical director of Aleris Hamlet.
April 22, 2016
FREE BLOG Chinese hospitals look abroad for expertise
As Luye Medical Group, part of the $2.5bn Hong Kong-listed pharma giant Luye Pharma, spends $700m on Australia’s third largest hospital operator to help ‘designing and managing Chinese hospitals’, it is clear that the Chinese healthcare industry is looking to Westernise. But the country is still a difficult market to enter.
April 21, 2016
Chinese operator spends $700m in Australia
Healthe Care, Australia’s third largest hospital operator, sold to Chinese provider Luye Medical Group for $700m (A$938m). Luye aims to import Healthe Care’s management expertise to China and is planning a $234m (A$300m) hospital expansion plan in Australia.
April 21, 2016
Low-cost dialysis group to build Africa’s largest network
Dialysis provider Africa Healthcare Network secured a contract with the Ministry of Health in Rwanda to deliver kidney care to district hospitals across the country. The group aims to triple capacity in Rwanda in the next year and launch up to 100 centres across Sub-Saharan Africa in the next five years. We speak to CEO Nikhil Pereira-Kamath.
April 21, 2016
Marcel Hermann quits at Médipôle Partenaires
Marcel Hermann, who founded Médipôle Sud Santé in 2006, has quit as president of Médipôle Partenaires, now the third largest French hospital group. He had been named in the ‘Panama Papers’ scandal suspected of tax evasion. There are rumours that the group could IPO as soon as the autumn of 2016.
April 20, 2016
Dunyagoz to strengthen its hospital network
Turkish ophthalmology group Dunyagoz, which runs 22 centres in Turkey and Europe, is expanding to neighbouring countries and beyond. It is looking at Iran and Russia and is launching two new hospitals in the Netherlands and Azerbaijan in June 2016. We speak to CEO Koray Ozbay about the group’s strategy.
April 18, 2016
Interview: Dr Sanjeev Kanoria
An ex-McKinsey consultant and a liver surgeon by training, Sanjeev is one of four brothers running a family conglomerate which is the second largest non-banking financial institution in India. He is also chairman of Advinia healthcare, a chain of 16 UK care homes which he founded in 1999 with his wife sangita. In 2017, he will launch a brand new 400 bed, multi-specialist hospital in New Mumbai, India, which plans a stream of joint ventures with specialist providers.
April 15, 2016
Antin Infrastructure Partners buys French psychiatry group Inicea
Antin Infrastructure Partners, one of the largest private equity house to focus on infrastructure, has bought a majority stake in France's third largest psychiatry group Inicea for an undisclosed amount. This is Antin’s second healthcare acquisition in less than a year after German lab chain Amedes. We speak to Angelika Schöchlin, Senior Partner at Antin Infrastructure Partners.
