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Asian Healthcare: Presentation, Abrar Mir, Quadria Capital

Quadria is one of the largest investors in private health care services in the region. Here Abrar looks at how he sees prospects at the sub-sector level for the industry and names the main players before looking at likely margin and revenue growth. He goes onto look at how to best define target markets and asks to what extent private groups can and should target low cost, mass markets.

Challenges to Payors in the 21st century: Presentation, Damien Marmion , AXA Global Health

Dr Damien Marmion gives his personal views on the advent of connected healthcare, big data, analytics are a challenge and an opportunity for private medical insurers. In addition we all have an increasing need for better outcomes in terms of customer quality and affordability. Damien looks at the issues payors in general face before outlining solutions.

Payors and Providers : A new relationship: Presentation, Richard di Benedetto, Aetna International

The relationship between payors and providers is changing rapidly. In the USA, Aetna has already moved to a partnership model in which large providers are paid on a per capita basis, rather than by activity. Meanwhile, new apps are creating a much more direct relationship between insurers and patients. These enable remote diagnosis and enables the payor to steer patients to the most suitable provider. Di Benedetto looks at these changes and at how Aetna plans to roll them out worldwide.

Fullerton continues expansion into Aussie primary care

Singapore-based Fullerton Health, which provides a range of healthcare services to corporates, has bought 48 facilities from Australia’s second biggest hospital chain Healthscope for S$59.4m (US$43.6) – becoming the third largest primary care business in the country.

Building an international hospital group in Asia – Dr Azad Moopen, Aster DM

Over 30 years Dr Moopen has built Aster DM from scratch into one of the largest groups in the GCC and India, moving into hospitals, pharmacies, diagnostics and outpatient. He talks about the challenges and lessons of the last five years as the group has expanded internationally and reflects on future business models and markets ahead of the group's listing on the Mumbai stock exchange.

Academic Medical Centers Involvement in Foreign Markets: An American Perspective on a Multi-Billion Dollar Business: Presentation, Juan Carlos Negrette, University of Utah

Mayo, Johns Hopkins, Cleveland, UPMC and Texas Medical Centers have built huge revenue streams from patient referrals and affiliation programmes. Juan Carlos, formerly managing director at Johns Hopkins International, presents recent research including his estimates of revenue flows by group and dissects the business models, successful and unsuccessful, that they have deployed. What are the lessons for other players?

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