There is a widely held view that brain drain - especially in health care - hits the country of departure hard. And yet there were dissenting voices to this popular view at HBI 2023.
Do private equity-owned health and care providers perform better - on quality and cost efficiency - than their public, not-for-profit and doctor-owned counterparts? A new review of the scientific evidence suggests perhaps not.
Cybersecurity is important for healthcare. Data and system breaches could take away patient privacy, destroy their trust in much-needed data collection, cost a bucketload of ransom money or even risk patients’ lives. So what can operators do to protect their data? Here are 4 things we’ve learned from talking to experts recently.
An ex-employee of hospital group Circle BMI described its former fertility asset as “a nice little profitable part of the business”. And yet all the UK hospital groups are selling them off. Why?
Italian industrialists have a penchant for investing in health care services. And it is striking how many of the major groups in Italy are controlled by wealthy families.
At a session on ESG at HBI 2023 ('Building a robust ESG framework') all panellists appeared to be on board with the idea that adopting serious ESG strategies is not only good for society and the planet, it's also ultimately good for the business itself and its shareholders. Companies need to shift from thinking of it as a burdensome cost to thinking of it as a necessary investment. Is this true?
In March, the World Health Organisation published an updated list of 55 countries that have reached a critical point when it comes to shortages in their health care workforces. The implication - or ‘recommendation’ - is that wealthier western nations in particular need to cool it when it comes to actively recruiting nurses and doctors from selected countries.
From silicon valley to national legislatures, debates around the impact artificial intelligence could have on the future of humanity seem to have reached a new fever pitch in recent weeks.
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