American pharmacy operator CVS Health Corp has made a reported $66 billion bid for US insurance giant Aetna - but we hear regulatory opposition could kill the deal.
The last 12 years has been tough for Argentina’s private hospital sector. In the province of Cordoba out of 450 only 200 hospitals have survived. But that is about to change said delegates at Healthcare Latam, the first Pan-Latin American event devoted to private health care services.
Aside from Rede D’Or, Intermedica and Amil, Brazil is dominated by many thousands of small private hospitals. At Healthcare Latam, the inaugural Pan-Latam healthcare conference held in Sao Paolo this month, we learnt that many are now doing badly, but still won’t sell. Meanwhile, employers are seeking structural changes in healthcare delivery.
Public sector education is failing to build the nursing and doctor capacity that is needed around the world. We talk to academic Kevin Kinser at PennState University in the USA who specialises in tracking the for-profit tertiary education sector about the sector in general and about healthcare specifically. This is part of a series of articles on medical training and the private sector.
Imaging and lab group Alliar has its eyes on another giant Private Public partnership (PPP) contract in Brazil which would be twice as big as its US$60m a year, 11.5 year contract with Bahia state, says CEO Fernando Termi, speaking at the inaugural Healthcare Latam conference.
Elderly people in nursing homes in Latin America behave very differently from Europeans, Roderick Peterson at Acalis Latin America, told the first Healthcare Latam conference which took place in October 2017 in Sao Paolo. How, why and what impact does this have?
Axismed provides predictive health models, and monitoring healthcare programmes through digital multichannel access, focused into ROI achievement. Cesar discusses the challenges and opportunities of Axismed's platform, and how it helps corporate payers and end users.
Following a brief introduction to Population Health Management, Marcus gives an overview of outcomes and costs of lung cancer screening programmes and how digital health technologies and applications can optimise such programmes.
As Latin America works to digitalise its healthcare systems, Francisco gives an overview of the countries and businesses which are embracing the cloud and AI, and the challenges and benefits this has created. Plus he predicts what the next five years of digitalisation will bring to Latam - and where healthcare services should prioritise their spending.
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