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FREE BLOG Why so few real entrepreneurs?

Health care services is probably Europe's largest industry as a percentage of GDP. Even private-only healthcare and care services is a couple of points of GDP. So why so few real entrepreneurs? Most bosses in this industry are simply running and growing largish, stable businesses. Very few are seeking to identify and meet unmet demands.
May 27, 2016

ICHOM Conference #3: Pay for conditions not people

Fee for service is dead and capitation is on its last legs. The future belongs to conditions based payments and integrated practice units (IPUs). So said Harvard professor and cofounder of the Institute of Clinical Health Outcomes Measures (ICHOM), Michael Porter, to assembled delegates at ICHOM’s annual conference. This model is already being implemented with mixed results in Portugal.
May 26, 2016

Prices tumble for genetic tests

The price of some popular genetic tests have all but halved in little more than a year.  B2C web sites are now springing up offering ever lower prices as Chinese operators enter the European market. So what does this mean for diagnostic lab groups who have for so long prophesied that complex genetic testing will […]
May 26, 2016

Swiss face big danger of tariff cuts

Swiss tariffs for technical services which include lab and imaging could drop by 27%, according to a proposal formulated by doctor and hospital associations and some insurers. The actual drop is likely to be much lower, but a cut looks inevitable.
May 26, 2016

Amma to fetch 12x EBITDA

Caixabank's deadline to sell Spanish care group Amma on 31 June approaches. SARquavitae appears to have pulled out because of the price. We look at the three bidders left in and the possible (high) price and at other Spanish care groups that are for sale.
May 26, 2016

Hiperdia for sale

Bedminister Capital is set to sell Romanian imaging chain Hiperdia, meanwhile Medlife continues to search for a new minority backer.
May 25, 2016

Nigeria looks to encourage private healthcare insurance

A proposed bill that would boost private healthcare insurance in Cross River State, Nigeria is under review, says John Adesioye, president and CEO of Utopian Consulting. A new health insurance bill is being planned and the commissioner of finance described the proposals as a “no-brainer”, he claims. The development shows the direction of travel of health financing in Nigeria.
May 24, 2016

Norlandia moves into new markets

Elderly care and child care player Norlandia is looking to expand to new markets, including north Germany and the UK, in an aggressive roll-out strategy. It says it is also considering launching elderly care platforms in Finland and the Netherlands – where it currently only operates pre-schools. We speak to CEO Hilde-Britt Mellbye.
May 24, 2016

The side effects of China’s ban on drug mark-ups

Amidst concerns that doctors often over-prescribe, the Chinese government decided last year to stop hospitals working as distribution channels for pharmaceuticals by banning drug mark-ups. But Manaen Ma, a self-employed consultant on China’s healthcare industry, says that a ban cannot substitute better funding for indebted hospitals - and that the practice is still going on.
May 23, 2016
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