Implementing price caps on private healthcare services in India will put extra pressure on operators in an already low-price environment and could put new players off entering the market, attendees at HBI 2018 heard.
What do nursing home opportunities look like in China, India and Brazil? All three countries have the usual driving forces behind an increased demand in residential elderly care: an ageing population, a growing middle class, and a shift in the disease burden. HBI 2018 explored the similarities and differences in these three markets.
The introduction of social health insurance in India should provide universal healthcare access for the population, and drive growth in the private market, creating opportunities, attendees at HBI 2018 heard.
The Asian healthcare market is desperately in need of good providers but the operating environment remains challenging, according to the panel of experts at HBI 2018.
A pioneer of international expansion, UPMC, a big US academic medical centre, first expanded abroad to Italy where it has been managing PPPs for complex surgery and transplants for over two decades. Surgeon Dr. Gridelli has also been a leader in UPMC collaborations with the Asian American Medical Group in Singapore; Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar; KingMed Diagnostics in China; National Research Oncology Center in Kazakhstan; Xiangya International Medical Center, China and the Whitfield Cancer Centre in Ireland.
Mark Ebbens, Senior Partner, GE Healthcare Partners & Peter Bak, CIO, Humber River Hospital, Canada share their thoughts on Mission Control for Healthcare – A Key Component in Transforming Care Delivery and Achieving High Reliability in Healthcare Organisations. As presented at HBI 2018. Click here to view the presentation.
Raj runs Unilever's medical and occupational healthcare programme across over 100 countries. Here he looks at how Unilever does this, its goals and how it works with the private sector. He goes on to look at how he is deploying digital health.
Owned by US insurer UnitedHealth, Amil is Brazil's largest private healthcare provider and a trailblazer for vertical integration in LATAM. Daniel discusses Amil's progress and the implications of this for private healthcare business models. He also describes the - sometimes bumpy - journey of moving from fee for services to DRGs to payment by results and shares lessons learnt.
What does this tell us about industry dynamics, maturity and consolidation? How are investors, valuations and deal flow likely to change over the next few years?
Today in India, as in many Emerging Markets, sick patients often go straight to hospital. Primary care has a poor reputation and is often viewed as corrupt by patients. Here Kaushik gives a detailed overview of how primary care works in India and unpackages its potential, before describing Healthspring's business model, which has seen it grow to a network of 30 clinics.
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