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Forget wearables – implantables will change healthcare forever

Wearable technology is cutting edge today - but it's nothing compared to the revolution that implantable technology will soon bring to the marketplace. That could see big medtech companies reconfiguring healthcare services and delivering many of them directly.

Interview: Nick Sanderson, CEO, Audley Group

In 2017 UK institutional investors finally discovered the assisted living sector, with Legal and General and Axa both buying operators.  Yet the sector remains tiny in the UK, thanks to older Brits fixation with remaining in their own homes as well as severe planning restrictions.  Nonetheless, there is high demand, property investors have fallen in love with the sector and governments the world over are rethinking their attitude to the sector. Audley Group is the largest player in the sector, Nick has been in the sector since 1986 and chairs the sector’s trade association, Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO).

Co-pay changes could boost Turkish hospital market

Recently listed Turkish hospital chain Medical Park Group has released its maiden results. We talk to a local contact about how the company is faring post IPO, and how co-pay changes could point to a rosy future.

Interview: Kieran Murphy, CEO, GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare employs several thousand software engineers today. So what will the medtech giant’s role in healthcare look like in five or ten years’ time? As an incumbent, does it see Apple, Google, and Amazon et al as a threat? And what sort of relationship does it want to forge with big private operators? We talk to Kieran who became CEO in June 2017, having run GE Healthcare Life Sciences for five years.

Qualitas’ IPO plan on Singapore Exchange faces challenges

Malaysia-based outpatient and corporate care group Qualitas’ planned IPO on the Singapore Exchange is “work in progress” and has been delayed to later this year, a well-placed source tells Healthcare Nova. HCN reported at the end of 2017 that Qualitas was planning to list on Singapore Exchange (SGX) to raise S$200m (US$152m) in early 2018. […]

FREE BLOG What we learned at Africa Healthcare Week 2018

Africa's brightest healthcare brains from the public, private and NGO sectors - and a lot of salesmen - flocked to London this week for Africa Healthcare Week, the largest healthcare event about the continent outside of the region. Healthcare Nova was there. Here are four of the things we learned from the two-day conference.

Nairobi Hospital is expanding – and open to discussion with investors

We caught up with Gordon Odundo, CEO of the 350-bed Nairobi Hospital in Kenya, at Africa Healthcare Week in London. He tells us the group is developing a new 100-bed pediatric hospital in the city to open by the end of the year, with longer-term plans to move the main hospital to an adjoining new-build site as part of a plan to double its capacity.

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