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Private hospital free zones sprawl across Colombia

Colombia's free market government is fuelling the development of the private sector with economic free zones. The main incentives is a cut in corporate tax from 25% to 15%, VAT exemption in procurement and tariff discounts on medtech imports. Five private hospitals have set up as free zones since 2013, more are set to follow.
November 30, 2015

Bulgarian hospitals face troubled future

Bulgarian hospitals face a crisis if plans to cut Sofia’s number of publicly funded hospital beds by 40% go ahead. Redeploying National Health Insurance Funds (NHIF) to the regions, will slash the number of reimbursed surgical operations in the capital. We spoke to Jivko Ivanov, managing partner at the local consultancy firm, Simbula.
November 30, 2015

Patient apps to change business models

Integrated patient apps that bring together a suite of things from symptom checkers to telehealth are radically changing the business model for outpatient and hospital network Medicover, as well as other operators in some European countries. Meanwhile, health insurer Aetna is set to rebuild its business model for its global business, particularly in emerging markets, with an app at its heart.
November 30, 2015

Apps will change private healthcare

Apps are set to become the interface for the relationship between patients and providers. That is likely to mean a much bigger role for healthcare providers (such as big hospital and outpatient networks) and possibly payors. And it leaves big pharma out in the cold.
November 30, 2015

Measuring quality outcomes: the next frontier for competition?

Private health and care would be transformed if quality could be measured accurately in a way that patients could really understand. If measured, quality would then soar. And the sterile European private versus public debate would fade out as payers focused on quality outcomes and patient choice.
November 30, 2015

Interview: Dr Richardson Ajayi, CEO, Bridge Clinic

In many Emerging Markets, entrepreneurs face the same journey from a business based entirely on the reputation on of a single doctor to the development of a corporate. Here we look at how Dr Richardson has built Nigeria’s largest fertility clinic and lab chain and his plans to build a complete integrated healthcare platform.
November 27, 2015

Pihlajalinna plans war chest

Having IPOed as recently as June 2015, Finnish healthcare group Pihlajalinna is to ask shareholders for a mandate to issue an extra €40m in shares. The shares have soared 70% above the IPO price to over €17. A €40m issue would leave the company with €70m of net cash. What might the company buy and what does the move tell us about the Finnish market?
November 27, 2015

The Irish government scraps universal health insurance plan

A study commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Institute states that implementing the plan would cost €2bn more than the current health expenditure. The Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has formally announced that there will be no UHI in the short or middle term. What impact wil this have on the private healthcare sector?
November 27, 2015

Aetna reconfigures international model around killer app

US insurer Aetna has developed a customer app which is part of a wider strategy to reconfigure healthcare services around the world, particularly in Emerging Markets. We talk to Richard Di Benedetto, president of Aetna International.
November 27, 2015

LGC process shows industry convergence in the lab space

UK lab group LGC is being sold by Rothschild with several private equity houses and industrials in the frame. The interest shows that the food, environmental, clinical testing and diagostic lab spaces are starting to converge.
November 27, 2015
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