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India’s SRL and Fortis to “uncouple”

Fortis Healthcare and SRL Diagnostics, India’s second largest hospital group and largest lab group respectively, are demerging so private equity investors can exit and it can offer specialised hospital and lab stock picks. SRL’s CEO Sanjeev Vashista told Healthcare Nova SRL has eight years left on its contracts with Fortis, which will, in any case, remain a majority shareholder.
August 24, 2016

Interview: Mark Adams, CEO of Anglo Arabian Heathcare, on how changes in UAE will create winners – and losers

The healthcare system in the UAE is unusual. Around 85 to 90% of the workforce is from overseas, there’s a fragmented payor market and too many hospitals and clinics chasing too few patients. Something has to change, and as it does, there are going to be winners and losers. Mark Adams, founder and CEO of UAE-based integrated healthcare provider Anglo Arabian Heathcare, shared his views with Healthcare Nova.
August 24, 2016

Interview: Dr Shuchin Bajaj, co-founder of Cygnus Hospitals in India: How to succeed in semi-urban areas

Five years ago, a group of doctors working in Northern India looked at the major hospital chains around them and thought ‘we can do this better’. Six years on from setting up Cygnus Hospitals, a mixture of clever cost-cutting and sensible spending, selective recruitment, timely patient turnaround and low-priced procedures has seen the group open a chain of 11 “superspeciality” hospitals in Northern India, with over 1,000 beds and a 1,600-strong medical workforce. We spoke to Dr Suchin Bajaj, a founding director of the group, as he looks to encourage investment into his business as it continues to expand.
August 24, 2016

Nordics’ independent labs diversify

Over the past decade, independent labs in the Nordics have had to endure dropping prices and the arrival of giant diagnostic players keen to consolidate. They are now trying to change their strategies.
August 23, 2016

eHealth – changing the role of the insurer – and nudging the insured to get healthy

The health insurance industry faces revolutionary change. eHealth is moving healthcare down the acuity curve, personalising treatment and bringing a new generation of wellness treatments online through mHealth apps. This, in turn, creates data, data that insurers are eager to get their hands on. They increasingly are, by creating their own bespoke apps or partnering with aggregators or popular wellness apps. But, adapting their business models to the data-driven economy, is moving insurers from a passive to an active role in people’s health, and raising tensions with consumer interests.
August 22, 2016

What impact will clarity on quality outcomes have on healthcare services?

We are about to find out the answer to that question. From April 2017, the UK’s Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) will go live with a mammoth website representing nearly 2 million datapoints covering the output of 14,000 consultant doctors with private practice at over 500 hospitals. Over 200 procedures will be measured in 11 ways. What does all this mean?
August 19, 2016

Medicover plans IPO to raise SEK2bn for expansion

Medicover, the Pan-East European corporate healthcare provider and lab group, plans to IPO to expand internationally, raising SEK2bn for expansion of its core business into Emerging Markets.
August 19, 2016
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