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Interview: Circle’s chief medical officer, Dr Massoud Fouladi

Circle Rehabilitation Services, a joint venture between the UK private hospital group, Circle Health, and Vamed, an international hospital construction and management operator, is confident there is a mix of payors willing to fund inpatient rehab. The service should cost roughly two-thirds the price of an NHS acute bed per night, Circle’s chief medical officer, Dr Massoud Fouladi, told Healthcare Europa.

Medics 24 helps Syrian refugees – and looks to Germany, India, Israel and Morocco

Medics24, a small Finnish telehealth start-up is trying to find volunteers in the medical profession to help both patients and aid workers affected by the conflict in Syria. We talk to Jussi Korhonen, director at Medics24 about the benefits of digital health and the group’s Syria initiative.

Interview: Nick Hernandez, CEO of US healthcare consultancy ABISA

Boutique US advisory firm ABISA says it is working with Swiss clients for a healthcare deal in Eastern Europe. The expansion is likely to focus on medical tourism, telehealth and oncology - ABISA’s three main areas of expertise. We talk to founder Nick Hernandez.

Interview: Attila Vegh, CEO, Penta Hospitals Group

By 2025 Penta Hospitals Group (PHG) owned by private equity house Penta Investments, plans to more than triple sales to over €1bn. But growth could be even faster, says its new CEO, Attila Vegh, a former boss of three large English NHS hospital trusts. The real ambition of the group, a merger of Svet Zdravia in Slovakia, the Polish chain EMC and Penta’s hospitals in Czech Republic, is even greater than the sales forecasts suggest. Much of the growth he says will come from working with the public sector. Vegh says that Penta wants to be “a disrupter, a company which introduces best practice and innovation,” thus persuading public payors to rethink their attitude to the private sector. So how do you do that in a region which is becoming increasingly statist and hostile to international capitalism?

Interview: Jaakko Olkkonen, Wellmo: The future of insurance – Preventative health services and wearables

Savvy insurers - big players like Generali, Germany's second largest primary insurance group, and Vitality in the UK, are moving into preventative health services – suggesting there's money to be saved here. Experts seem to agree within five years, wearable devices feeding information back to health insurance companies may become the norm rather than the exception – and insurers who don't change they way they operate could soon be left behind. One such expert is Jaakko Olkkonen, managing director of Finland-based mobile platform software company Wellmo. Olkkonen admits he has a vested interest in promoting wearable devices and apps which record key health information – like user activity, sleep patterns and heart rate – and feeding it back to insurers. He runs a digital platform designed to facilitate it, after all. But he says his predictions are accurate nonetheless.

Interview: Daniel Öhman, CEO, GHP

With 18 facilities across Sweden, Finland and the UAE, GHP has pioneered “holistic” centres, each focused on specific conditions. So someone with a back problem can get physiotherapy, surgery, osteopathy and even psychiatry from one centre. GHP is also now managing four hospitals with 700 staff in the UAE. We talk to Öhman about GHP’s work with Swedish insurer Skandia which now pays the company on a per capita/quality basis for patients with orthopaedic and spine problems, conditions which make up nearly half of all pay-outs for insurers. We think this move to per capita payments for such conditions from some form of DRG payment is unique in Europe.

Interview: Anas Wajid of Max Healthcare on UK plans and managing India doctors

Why is Max Healthcare reluctant to leave Northern India at home – but looking to bring Indian doctors to the UK? How does it retain staff predisposed to head for the Gulf? And how are its doctors reacting to being independently assessed for quality?

Interview: Dr Elias Engelking, Specialist Surgeon, Julius Berger Medical Services in Abuja, Nigeria

Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and somewhere investors are casting a keen eye. Currently, it does not have the healthcare system to match its growing clout. Dr Elias Engelking is an Anglo-German surgeon, who has spent the last five years treating the Nigerian workers of Julius Berger Group, a large construction company originating from Germany. Soon to be a free agent, he's planning to pursue his vision of developing a model hospital for the nation. The surgeon has used his experience treating patients, public and private, on three continents to develop a concept that he believes offers much-needed solutions for Nigeria, and here he explains it to Healthcare Nova.

Interview: Ian Wootton, London-based head of healthcare corporate banking at Japan’s largest bank

How do the big banks decide to lend – and how do they view the healthcare market? We speak with Ian Wootton, EMEA head of healthcare corporate banking division at Japan’s largest bank, MUFG.

Interview: Chad Holmes, Red Hat Mobile: Mobile apps can save operators time and money

Mobile app technology has the potential to transform the way healthcare information is recorded, stored and shared - saving time and money and improving patient care. This rapidly growing field can cover everything from getting data from patients and to caregivers, and monitoring and suggesting treatment, to simply helping people navigate hospital sites. We speak to Chad Holmes, senior mobile solutions architect and healthcare sector specialist with US-based Red Hat Mobile which commissioned a survey about mobile app use.

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