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Interview: Ricardo Soares, CEO, Brasil Senior Living

Brasil Senior Living (BSL) is establishing a network of elderly and assisted living homes in Brazil - and currently has little by way of organised opposition there. Healthcare Nova talks to CEO and co-founder Ricardo Soares about his plans for the future, why he'd welcome a rival, and what he makes of Orpea's plans to enter the market.

Value-based “payment bundles”

AI is being used in hospitals in Sweden to assess how much a patient is likely to cost based on a range of parameters - age, sex, condition, co-morbidities etc - and payors are then putting together "payment bundles" to operators to reflect how much treatment will cost. 

FREE BLOG Disruptors are bypassing operators to go straight to the patient

Ali Parsa, the entrepreneurial founder of digital healthcare company Babylon, is happy to work with operators - but he doesn't think it's necessary or always the best option, as his recent agreement with Chinese social media and messaging giant WeChat shows. Healthcare Europa caught up with him at HBI 2018 to find out more.

Vamed enters first Chinese JV

Global outsourcing and healthcare services management giant Vamed tells Healthcare Nova it has entered a joint venture with HNA Holding to build and operate a private hospital in Hainan, South China.

HCG plans to roll out personalised cancer treatment across India

India’s largest cancer centre chain, Healthcare Global Enterprises (HCG), plans to roll out personalised oncology treatment across the country by 2020, founder Dr Ajaikumar tells Healthcare Nova. “When I was an oncology resident (house officer), everybody was treated the same way, but now 48% of cancer treatments are different because of the field of genomics. […]

Value-based Healthcare: Delivering high quality cancer care internationally: Presentation, Dr B.S. Ajaikumar – HBI 2018

How do you deliver world-class cancer care at affordable prices? With 20 comprehensive cancer care centres, HCG is by far the largest oncology specialist in India. Founder, Dr Ajaikumar, lifts the lid on how HCG’s model delivers outcomes through deployment of value health. With a growing pan-India presence, and a cancer center in Kenya, HCG sees potential to replicate the model globally, including across regions like Dubai, Ghana, Vietnam, Philippines etc. in the next few years.

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