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Interview: Andrew Wyatt, COO, and Corrina Kane, head of product marketing, Lumeon

Care Pathway Management (CPM) software administers health systems, connects data and orchestrates the patient’s journey using predetermined and rigorously analysed rules. It claims to improve clinical capacity and patient satisfaction, whilst slashing paperwork and billing overheads. Lumeon is a leader in this field. It’s working with many of the UK’s top commercial operators and close to signing with the NHS directly. Last week, it launched its own care pathway marketplace. Lumeon is alternatively, a revolutionary pioneer, or a jumped-up admin system. We investigate.

Interview: Ignacio Riesgo, independent healthcare consultant

We speak to Ignacio Riesgo, previously a healthcare leader at PwC in Madrid, and currently an independent advisor to both public and private providers. Riesgo muses on the industrialization of healthcare in his latest book Médicos o robots: La medicina que viene (Rasche).

Interview: Andrés Gutiérrez, CEO, Médica Santa Carmen

Mexican renal care cost-cutter Médica Santa Carmen has concluded a second round of investments to expand from four clinics to 20-25 by 2021. We speak to CEO Andrés Gutiérrez about partnerships, the Mexican market and reaching out to the undiagnosed lower classes.

Interview: Mike Wagner, Executive Director, The Advisory Board

We speak to Mike Wagner, executive director at healthcare consultancy The Advisory Board. Wagner believes there'll be a move towards a risk-segmented payor system that combines greater cost control for chronic patients and more service-oriented healthcare for the bulk of the population. Giving up old reservations and partnering with disruptive newcomers is key.

Private equity to enter Chilean payor-provider Masvida

Latin American private equity fund Southern Cross is doing due diligence to buy a majority stake in Masvida, Chile's fourth largest health insurer with an eight-clinic provider network. The plan is to compete with Banmédica and Bupa for national coverage, starting with 400 new hospital beds in 2017. We speak to president Dr. Claudio Santander about the business and we also look at valuations.

Interview: Andy Fischer, CEO, Medgate

Swiss teleconsultation provider Medgate recently partnered with healthcare fund Aevis Victoria. Founded in 1999, Medgate has grown annually at an average 32% and has grown from 100,000 teleconsultations in 2005 to 725,000 in 2015. Besides teleconsultations, it runs its own referral partner network with over 1,700 members plus two self-managed health centres in Switzerland. It has also set up franchises in Abu Dhabi, Sydney and Manila. We speak to CEO Andy Fischer to learn more.

Interview: Philippe Tapié, CEO, Maisons de Famille

French nursing homes are finding new ways to reduce costs –and get more patients. That means more homecare, more day care and more remote care, according to Philippe Tapié, CEO of France’s fourth largest elderly care group Maisons de Famille, who has just bought Spanish chain Amma for an estimated €230m.

Interview: Lars Christian Dahle, CEO, Dignio

Can telecare and telehealth keep the elderly and chronically ill in their own homes longer? A recent pilot in the city of Oslo, Norway, suggests the answer is yes, with a 32% percent reduction in hospital admissions and a 59% drop in the time nurses spend on home visits. That is thanks to a device which automatically relays readings (blood pressure, thermometers, breathing, etc) to an iPad and on to a central monitoring station. Dignio is also active in Sweden and Denmark and is exploring elderly care in China.

Traditional medicine endorsed by South African doctors

A seemingly innocuous question on the continued role of traditional or faith-based healers in South African healthcare at the Africa Health conference, sparked a fascinating discussion on the practice, which cannot be funded by insurers by law, and yet is relied upon by many in a country, which a recent report found had the lowest life expectancy of 194 countries.

Affidea boss denies rumours

Affidea CEO Dimitris Moulavasilis has categorically denied rumours that Waypoint Capital might be willing to sell the Pan East and South European imaging service provider. There was speculation that such a sale would have left the way open for a large private equity house to buy both Affidea and Alliance Medical, where M&G is looking for a sale, and merge them to create a truly Pan-European operator. Instead, Moulavasilis expressed interest in further acquisitions to grow the company.

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