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Primary care compared

The OECD and the World Health Organisation are currently working on a big project to make it much easier to compare primary care spending across countries.
March 13, 2018

Africa: Five definites, four maybes and nine no-nos

Health is becoming big business in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. As its countries become more urban and populations become more affluent, private operators are seeing opportunities to invest, and to make a difference to people’s lives – particularly as public health sectors struggle to cope. African healthcare expert Dan Schönfeld, former head of investments at Vital Capital, offers his personal assessment or where he would, and wouldn’t recommend putting your money.
March 13, 2018

NMC growth makes it a FTSE 100 one to watch

London-listed Middle Eastern healthcare group NMC Health saw impressive 31% revenue growth – half organic - and 43% EBITDA growth in 2017. Net profit, margin and EPS are also up, and the healthcare segment has outperformed distribution significantly.
March 12, 2018

Forget wearables – implantables will change healthcare forever

Wearable technology is cutting edge today – but it’s nothing compared to the revolution that implantable technology will soon bring to the marketplace. That could see big medtech companies reconfiguring healthcare services and delivering many of them directly.
March 9, 2018

Interview: Kieran Murphy, CEO, GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare employs several thousand software engineers today. So what will the medtech giant’s role in healthcare look like in five or ten years’ time? As an incumbent, does it see Apple, Google, and Amazon et al as a threat? And what sort of relationship does it want to forge with big private operators? We talk to Kieran who became CEO in June 2017, having run GE Healthcare Life Sciences for five years.
March 7, 2018

Qualitas’ IPO plan on Singapore Exchange faces challenges

Malaysia-based outpatient and corporate care group Qualitas’ planned IPO on the Singapore Exchange is “work in progress” and has been delayed to later this year, a well-placed source tells Healthcare Nova. HCN reported at the end of 2017 that Qualitas was planning to list on Singapore Exchange (SGX) to raise S$200m (US$152m) in early 2018. […]
March 7, 2018

Nairobi Hospital is expanding – and open to discussion with investors

We caught up with Gordon Odundo, CEO of the 350-bed Nairobi Hospital in Kenya, at Africa Healthcare Week in London. He tells us the group is developing a new 100-bed pediatric hospital in the city to open by the end of the year, with longer-term plans to move the main hospital to an adjoining new-build site as part of a plan to double its capacity.
March 7, 2018

Two Brazilian HMOs will IPO by April

Brazilian insurer-providers Hapvida Systema de Saude and Notre Dame Intermedica will go public in the next two months. We talk to contacts in the country - one of whom is in no doubt about which they would invest in.
March 5, 2018
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