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Siloam learns from Airline industry to attract specialists

With a ban on foreign doctors practicing in Indonesia, its largest hospital group Siloam PT Siloam International Hospitals TBK has learnt from the frequent flyer programmes to come up with a novel way to attract and retain much needed specialists.

Interview: Dharminder Nagar, Paras Healthcare – Affordable healthcare for India’s middle class

India-based Paras Healthcare is specifically targeting India’s flourishing middle classes and looking to provide affordable healthcare to a section of the population it says is being overlooked by bigger players. We speak to managing director Dharminder Nagar, who has made the journey from doctor to hospital administrator, and now entrepreneur, about how to succeed in India, and Paras plans for the future.

The case for PPPs in Portugal – saving money but still under fire

Tense negotiations are ongoing in Portugal regarding the renewal of hospital Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) contracts. This is despite an investigation that concluded PPP hospitals are performing on par with public hospitals – while costing up to 20% less to run for the state. So what is going on?

Interview: Joris Moolenaar, clinical psychologist, on ehealth and artificial intelligence

Karify provides cloud-based ehealth software which enables mental health practitioners to track the progress of their clients. It has 26,000 patients in its home Dutch market and claims to be growing patient numbers 12% month-on-month. The product can be used to initially test symptom severity, offers a set of exercises, tailored medical information, tackers and diaries. It is even a place to go in an looming crisis. For instance, an alcoholic tempted to drink, can go online and find routines and exercises that he has already discussed with his practitioner. Karify is now expanding into Spain, Belgium and the USA and is being used by patients with different psychological problems and disorders, but can also be used for recovering from traumatic acute episodes such as breast surgery. We talk to Joris Moolenaar, a clinical psychologist, about the sector, naming competitors, and discuss artificial intelligence.

Interview: Shannon Neilsen, CEO of Life Clinic, on how to succeed in China

Life Clinic, a Hong Kong anti-ageing and regenerative therapy operator, is to expand to mainland China and India through a strategic partnerships with a HK-listed company. Its CEO, Shannon Neilsen, was director of operations at WA Health Care, a Shanghai-based regenerative therapy provider later acquired by iKang. He also oversaw the entry of Parkway Health into China over a decade ago. He talks to Healthcare Nova about the difficulties of operating an international company on the mainland.

INTERVIEW: Kaushik Sen, CEO, Healthspring, India

Can you make money out of a primary care network in India? There is no question that, generally, primary healthcare in India is "broken". Kaushik Sen, CEO of Mumbai-based Healthspring thinks he has the answer - a new primary care network. But can it ever turn a profit and if so how? We talk to Sen about his success to date, and plans for the future.

Interview: Mike Moran, Proton Partners International, on building specialist cancer treatment centres

With three advanced cancer treatment centres being built in the UK, and the newly acquired Gulf International Cancer Centre in Abu Dhabi set to become the first proton beam therapy centre in the UAE, Proton Partners International is making big plans for the future. We speak to CEO Mike Moran, MBE, about how a business formed in February last year is making plans to go global.

Polish plans for NHS concern healthcare experts

Poland's Law and Justice government is radically reforming the country's healthcare system. It has already removed a mechanism driving the privatisation of state hospitals. Now, a sequence of bills is being prepared that will reform primary care, bring in an NHS style system and create a national hospital network with access to state funds. We investigate.

Interview: Jeremy Low, board member Weihai Thonburi – “In China, there are no easy shortcuts, but it’s worth it”

How do foreign operators crack the notoriously tricky Chinese market? Is it possible for non-natives to come in, win over the local population, cut through swathes of red tape and make a profit? We speak to Jeremy Low, director of Weihai Thonburi Healthcare Investment Company, a subsidiary of Bangkok-based Thonburi Hospital Group, which is about to open a 250 bed hospital.

GVM to launch its first China facility in early 2017

Days after opening a €3m diagnostics centre in Moscow, Italian hospital operator Gruppo Villa Maria (GVM) says its first facility in China is to launch early next year. We speak to vice-president Bruno Biagi about the group’s international strategy.

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