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Interview: Pinak Shrikhande, principal, HealthQuad

Pinak Shrikhande is principal of Delhi-based HealthQuad, a Singapore-based private equity house and Quadria Capital's offshoot company which is investing in healthcare. What is its investment philosophy, and approach to developing assets in telemedicine and recruitment? Healthcare Nova finds out more.

Eurofins enters the Italian clinical testing market

Euronext-listed pan-European testing firm Eurofins is in the process of buying Genoma, a specialty genetics testing laboratory network in Italy – just three weeks after the acquisition of GATC, a genomics specialist in Germany.

SE Asian hospitals see the future clearly

A session at Healthcare Asia on market trends and opportunities in SE Asia brought together three of the largest hospital groups in SE Asia – Siloam in Indonesia, Metro Pacific in The Philippines and KPJ in Malaysia. So how do they see the world and what strategies are they adopting?

FREE BLOG The lessons from machine learning and AI

A few weeks ago we reported on how clinic chain Fullerton in Singapore has managed to cut the costs for providing healthcare for employees in large accounts by 10-15% by deploying machine learning/AI to scan big data sets. This exercise revealed huge wastage and fraud. Fullerton also claims its program can predict medical outcomes far more accurately than falible human doctors. So who else is doing this stuff today?

Unilabs buys genetics lab network

Pan-European laboratory chain Unilabs has bought CGC Genetics, a medical genetics testing company in Portugal. Philipp Manser, CFO at Unilabs, tells Healthcare Europa that the group wants to position itself as a reference medical genetics provider.

Nicola Bedin quits at San Donato

Nicola Bedin, 40 year-old CEO of big Italian hospital group San Donato has quit “to pursue other entrepreneurial activities”.

Three key future trends for UK private healthcare

Expect more STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans), more self-pay and more salaried hospital doctors in the UK. That’s according to several speakers at the Private Healthcare Summit in London.

“Nearly half a million Chinese medical tourists in 2015,” says expert

Nearly 500,000 patients from China travelled abroad for treatment in 2015 with 95% going to other Asian countries. That’s according to a survey by consultancy Global Growth Markets presented at the Private Healthcare Summit in London. But Pete Read, CEO of GGM, says that fear surrounding the lack of follow-up care is a big problem.

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