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Interview: Terri Bresenham, CEO, GE Sustainable Healthcare Solutions

Terri Bresenham has just been appointed CEO for GE Sustainable Healthcare Solutions, the new division which covers all sales to India, South Asia, Africa and South East Asia. We talk to her about how she sees these markets developing, GE plans to invest $300m and how GE is partnering with the private sector and payors.

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Interview: Marco Álvarez, founder, Grupo Dabvsa

Who better to talk about elderly care in Mexico than Marco Álvarez, who has been running medicalised homecare and day care in Mexico City for a decade? Harvard-educated, he founded Grupo Dabvsa on 2005. He expects huge growth as Mexico ages “alarmingly fast” over the next half century. We talk to him about markets, consumers and expansion plans.

Report: All listed healthcare service companies active in Emerging Markets

Here we present the first comprehensive list of all 57 quoted healthcare service companies which are active in Emerging Markets. The list includes companies headquartered in the Developed World, who have interests in Emerging Markets, such as Air Liquide, Fresenius or Ramsay Health Care, as well as quoted operators from the region, such as IHH, Apollo or Integrated Diagnostic Holdings. It covers everyone from Chilean hospitals to Egyptian lab operators and from NYSE quoted operators in China to big groups in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Casa Reha for sale as Vitalis goes to Orpea

German nursing home chain Casa Reha is unlikely to fetch much more than investor HG Capital paid for it in 2007. Meanwhile, small groups line up to sell ahead of new rules which will limit profits.

Polish PPP hospital finally gets sign off with a ten year NHIF contract

The first operator PPP hospital in Eastern Europe has finally been signed off and has managed to squeeze a ten year contract out of the Polish Neational Health Insurance Fund. The project for the construction and management of a 275-bed hospital in Żywiec on a 30 year contract was awarded to InterHealth Canada. But it has not been an easy gig.

Can regional lab chains compete against reference labs in France?

With large reference labs like Cerba and Novescia buying up their own clients, regional chains have started to fight back by creating national groups with central sites for testing. But they are facing many challenges, as competition is fierce and other medical sectors are consolidating.

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