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FREE BLOG Teaching nurses and doctors – a profit centre

The world needs to train more surgeons in the next decade than have ever lived according to Dutch serial entrepreneur Jaap Maljers. So it is perhaps not surprising that investors are starting to see training in, and of itself, as a profit centre.
February 21, 2017

Medanta targets teaching and secondary cities

Privately owned hospital group Medanta has announced it will open a multi-speciality 1,000-bed facility in the city of Bhubaneswar in Eastern India within three years, at a cost of between Rs 750 crore and Rs 1,000 crore ($113m to $150m). We speak to Dr Naresh Trehan, the group's founder and managing director to find out more about his business plan to target “under served” areas of the country, and open educational facilities which private hospitals were previously not allowed to have.
February 20, 2017

Could TPG create Fortis-Manipal super group to rival Apollo?

Private equity group TPG hopes to follow its expected acquisition of the Indian hospital chain Fortis by merging the second biggest group in the country with the third largest, Manipal Health, reports the Indian press. That would create a 10,000-bed giant. What stands in its way?
February 20, 2017

Interview: Prof Dr Hatem Elgabaly, CEO, RX Health Management

A serial healthcare entrepreneur who also spent five years as Egypt’s Minister of Health and Population, Prof Elgabaly is now raising a $200m healthcare fund for investment in Healthcare in Africa and is already at present proceeding with investments. We talk to him about the Egyptian and wider African markets and about his investment approach.
February 17, 2017

Medica to float as teleradiology booms

Investec is to handle the IPO of Medica Group, a UK-based teleradiology company with sales of £30m in 2016 and a network of around 250 radiologists, say reliable sources.
February 16, 2017

Healthcare largest segment for Air Liquide in Europe

Global industrial gas company Air Liquide saw its healthcare segment grow by 11.2% to €3.1bn globally in 2016. Healthcare is now its largest business in Europe surpassing industrial gas for the first time.
February 16, 2017

MD Medical Group expands across Russia

MD Medical Group, the Russian hospital chain rooted in Moscow with the treatment of women and children at its core, is planning to expand substantially. Healthcare Europa caught up with CEO Dr Mark Kurtser at the London Stock Exchange during part of his charm offensive, ahead of an early morning briefing to investors. Shares in MD Medical have doubled in value since June 2016, to £10.65 - so what is Kurtser doing right, and what is he planning next?
February 16, 2017

Attendo steady but outsourcing drops

With nearly 10% operating margin, Sweden’s largest elderly care services provider Attendo reports a good 2016 performance and sees its shareholders’ dividends more than double. But the results also highlight challenges in the outsourcing market and the group reports poor organic growth.
February 16, 2017

Interview: Ariel Beery, CEO of MobileODT – turning mobile phones into diagnostic equipment

Are mobile phones the latest in high-tech, low cost diagnostic equipment? The humble mobile is being transformed into a medical tool, and the team behind this transformation say their bolt-on device brings expert clinical diagnosis to previously inaccessible areas. We caught up with Ariel Beery, co-founder and CEO of Israel-based MobileODT - which is in the running for the HBI Best Use of Digital Award at our 2017 conference in April - about his business model.
February 15, 2017
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