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Intercare deal could be a game-changer

This summer, Mediclinic, the listed South African, Europe and Mid-East hospital giant, quietly bought into Intercare, a South African outpatient, day hospital and sub-acute and rehabilitation hospital network which specialises in value-based healthcare, providing the best outcomes at the lowest costs. Here is why we think the acquisition is a game changer and why this is a business model that could be exported internationally.
November 7, 2017

FREE BLOG Can “Healthcare ATMs” be the primary care panacea India needs?

Indian health insurer Max Bupa Health is launching pioneering technology based around "Healthcare ATMs" which can assess a potential customer's health, and then sell them insurance on the spot. Healthcare Nova speaks to a healthcare operator who already uses these ATMs for health assessment, one who decided not to, and a group that manufactures them - and also looks at how they can be used to sell insurance.
November 2, 2017

NephroPlus plans to expand in India and abroad in 2018

Indian renal care provider NephroPlus is to open 55 more centres across the county by the end of 2018, which will see it operating in 180 locations. Healthcare Nova speaks to CEO Vikram Vuppala about the rollout, centre profitability and imminent international expansion.
November 1, 2017

FREE BLOG Latin America – Looking beyond the ATM business model

Our inaugural Healthcare Latam conference (147 very happy delegates from 20 countries met for two days in Sao Paulo, Brazil) demonstrated the potential and the problems faced by the private health care sector in Latin America. It also revealed the future and what lay beyond the perhaps dominant fee for service business model in which many operators main aim is to max out insurance policies. Subscribers can see all presentations by going to search, clicking on type of article and choosing "presentations".
October 30, 2017

Just how close are the tech giants to muscling in on traditional insurers and operators?

Insurers and operators are worried about the threat posed by tech giants like Google, Amazon and Microsoft – and the potential for these capital rich business to muscle out traditional players with big spending and technical know-how. But is this threat really realistic?  Healthcare Nova catches up with Peter Ohnemus, CEO of Swiss health app and health score company dacadoo, to find out more.
October 30, 2017

Mexican pharmacy chains power into primary care

Mexico's big pharmacy chains are powering into primary care which they see as a good way to sell more prescriptions. They could already be doing as many 500,000 primary care consultations a day according to Chief Innovation Officer Carlos Perez at Proa, the largest private lab group in Mexico who was speaking at Healthcare Latam, the inaugural Pan-Latin American healthcare service event.
October 30, 2017

Brazil: Problems and Opportunities

Here we look at the Brazilian private healthcare services market.  What is the potential in what is, per capita, the world's second largest private medical insurance market? 
October 27, 2017
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