The UK government's healthcare watchdog released its first negative report into a digital healthcare provider last month - citing unsafe and ineffective services that were not well-led.
Integrated care models where a management company is rewarded for cutting costs by strengthening primary and preventative care and increasing efficiency are starting to roll out across Europe. New contracts are being awarded in Germany, the UK and the Netherlands and population sizes are increasing. The competitors are international groups.
Colombia’s administrative court has lifted an injunction preventing the country’s largest insurer, Cafesalud, being sold to a consortium including Spain’s third largest hospital operator, Ribera Salud.
Heltti is a Finnish occupational healthcare provider serving almost exclusively (95%) knowledge workers in Helsinki, Tampere, Espoo and Oulu. CEO Timo Lappi believes the country's health and social care market has gone stale while policy makers obsess over administration. He wants to shake things up and shares his thoughts with Healthcare Europa.
There are now tens of thousands of genetic tests and physicians often spend weeks finding the right supplier with the right approvals at the right price. We look at a new website which uses intelligent search to create an online marketplace. What does it tell us about the future of genetic testing?
Using AI and machine learning to interpret big data promises to cut fraud, cut costs, deliver massive system improvements and improve diagnosis. Worldwide, there are probably over a thousand IT companies seeking to use big data to improve healthcare outcomes, ranging from Dr Watson, Microsoft, Google, Siemens, Philips and GE through to a myriad of start ups.
Teleradiology Solutions (YS), based in India, has signed a deal that will enable AI-based readings for many images. TS works with 150 hospitals in 20 countries.
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