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Integrated Provider Models – Beauty or Beast?: Presentation, Wolf Kupatt, amedes – HBI 2018

Unusually, big diagnostic lab group amedes also runs a national network of specialist outpatient doctor practices across Germany in areas such as gynaecology, fertility, diabetes and metabolic medicine. The beauty of such vertical integration is that amedes can offer more holistic treatment and brings together specialist doctors with formidable skills sets with equally specialist diagnostics. The beast is that the model adds considerable complexity and highlights potential conflicts of interest that exist in most integrated healthcare models.

Bridging Siloes and Making Consolidation Work: Presentation, Jonathan Darer, Siemens Healthineers – HBI 2018

How will new technology bridge the gap between secondary and primary care? What form will consolidation take? The former Chief Innovation Officer and Director of the Center for Clinical Innovation in the Geisinger Health System, Jon led the development, implementation and evaluation of initiatives in health information technology, clinical re-engineering and patient-family engagement. Here he looks at how IT will join together siloed activities over the next decade.

FREE BLOG 11 things we learned from HBI 2018

Many hundreds of you attended our conference HBI 2018 – Going for Growth at the QEII Centre in the heart of London last week. Here are eleven things we learned from the two-day event.

Integrated Provider Models: Presentation, Daniel Coudry, Amil, UnitedHealth group – HBI 2018

Owned by US insurer UnitedHealth, Amil is Brazil's largest private healthcare provider and a trailblazer for vertical integration in LATAM. Daniel discusses Amil's progress and the implications of this for private healthcare business models. He also describes the - sometimes bumpy - journey of moving from fee for services to DRGs to payment by results and shares lessons learnt.

Building a primary care business in India: Presentation, Kaushik Sen, Healthspring – HBI 2018

Today in India, as in many Emerging Markets, sick patients often go straight to hospital. Primary care has a poor reputation and is often viewed as corrupt by patients. Here Kaushik gives a detailed overview of how primary care works in India and unpackages its potential, before describing Healthspring's business model, which has seen it grow to a network of 30 clinics.

Med360 and the problems for vertical integrators

Why has Philips gone quiet about its acquisition of a stake in German imaging and outpatient group Med360? Official filings confirm that a hospital group is investing alongside Philips - confirming a story Healthcare Europa broke earlier this year.

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