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New Affidea CEO has global ambitions

Dimitris Moulavasilis, the CEO of Affidea, the Pan-East and South European imaging, outpatient and radiotherapy group, quit on January 24. On January 25 his replacement, Giuseppe Recchi, was announced. So what is up?

Interview: Charles Wang, Group CEO, Luye Medical Group

Formed as recently as 2015, Singapore-based Luye Medical Group has become one of the major contenders in health care services across China, Australia and SE Asia. It is part of the Luye Life Sciences Group which owns Luye Pharma Group, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in China and separately listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Luye Medical Group acquired Healthe Care, the third largest Australian for-profit hospital operators in 2016. It has since expanded its business rapidly adding healthcare operations such as oncology (Singapore), inpatient, outpatient and community based health care services (Australia) and rehabilitation and maternity hospitals (China). The aim, says Wang, is mainly to provide a value-based healthcare experience to meet the needs of the middle class and patients with private insurance coverage across SE Asia, Australia and China. Here we talk to him about Luye Medical Group’s plans and how it views the Chinese market. Wang is a speaker at HBI 2018, the global health care service event in London from April 10 to 11.

Unilabs starts 2018 with second Peruvian lab acquisition

Pan-European laboratory giant Unilabs is acquiring Peruvian pathology lab Arias Stella for an undisclosed amount. This is the second lab acquisition the group has made in Peru, after it bought Blufstein, a network of 31 collection centres and four hospitals, in August 2017. A local source tells Healthcare Europa that the deal is likely to be […]

NMC Health acquires UAE’s largest cosmetic surgery provider

London-listed NMC Health has acquired cosmetic care provider CosmeSurge from UAE competitor Emirates Healthcare Group, a company it has common shareholding with. Healthcare Nova speaks to NMC and our contacts in the UAE about a deal we saw coming months ago.

FREE BLOG Why innovation is so hard in healthcare systems

We recently talked to a senior manager in a big Dutch insurer about innovation. The conversation was enlightening about the huge problems around innovation in health care services and about what payors really are. The manager said that as a big insurer, his employer was constantly being approached with hundreds of innovative ideas covering everything […]

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