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Israeli POCT brings cancer screening to a mobile phone

Israeli point-of-care testing (POCT) start up MobileODT uses a mobile phone and attachable scope to screen and detect cervical cancer. CEO and Co-founder Ariel Beery claims it had sales of $60,000 since April 2015 and believes it can become a $1bn business.
May 27, 2015

Telefónica brings subscription mobile health services to two million across Latin America

Healthcare Nova can reveal that mobile phone giant Telefónica is rolling out its mobile health services to all its Latin American countries over the next two months. Launched in Brazil in 2012 it now has 2m customers there. It is also about to turn Saluspot, a platform to message doctors and book appointments, into a subscription service. Mobile health services include 24/7 call centres and SMS health tips and advice.
May 27, 2015

Report: The changing face of the healthcare labour market

The global deficit of healthcare professionals is getting worse. The World Health Organisation estimates the shortage at 7m today rising to 13m by 2035 – or 18m if you include medical technicians. Not to mention the deficits in management staff. Operators need increasingly innovative ways to respond to the HR crisis, driving a paradigm shift in the landscape of medical training, recruitment and operation.
May 26, 2015

Interview: Jaime Cervantes Covarrubias, CEO, Grupo VitalMex, Mexico

Persuading public sector hospitals to outsource the management of surgery sounds unlikely to lead to business success. After all, surgeons are powerful and surgery is a jealously guarded core competency. You might imagine that few public sector hospitals would willingly outsource. Yet Vitalmex has grown sales to $300m with this very business model and is now active in Peru, Colombia and Brazil. Thailand and Turkey could be next.
May 26, 2015

Report: Private health insurance to grow at 15% in Emerging Asia

A new report by reinsurer SwissRe lauds the potential of private health insurance (PHI) to transform healthcare in Emerging Markets. Medical insurance premiums are expected to grow at 10% per annum between 2013-2020, double the pace of emerging market GDP growth and triple global health insurance growth. We spoke to the author Clarence Wong, chief economist for Asia at SwissRe.
May 26, 2015

Egypt’s largest hospital group expands

Alameda claims to be Egypt’s largest private hospital group with three facilities with total capacity of 670 beds. The family owned group, in which the IFC has a stake, has plans to work with an insurer and open a nursing college. We talk to chairman Fahad Khater.
May 26, 2015

Concord plans cancer hospitals

Concord Medical Services, the NYSE-listed Chinese radiotherapy and imaging chain plans to build three oncology hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou to supplement its 140 imaging and radiotherapy centres, which are situated in public hospitals.
May 26, 2015

Amen Sante expands

Amen Sante is the largest operator in Tunisia with four hospitals today and two under construction. Around 30% of all admissions are from Libya, which under former leader Muammar Gaddafi, had almost no secondary healthcare.
May 26, 2015

Synlab buys in Africa

European lab group Synlab has made its first acquisition in Africa, buying a majority stake in Medven, the holding company for the Medlab lab and imaging chain. It wants to use this as a base for further growth in West Africa. We think this is the first time a European lab group has bought assets on the ground in Africa.
May 22, 2015
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