Here we look at the Brazilian private healthcare services market. What is the potential in what is, per capita, the world's second largest private medical insurance market?
American pharmacy operator CVS Health Corp has made a reported $66 billion bid for US insurance giant Aetna - but we hear regulatory opposition could kill the deal.
The last 12 years has been tough for Argentina’s private hospital sector. In the province of Cordoba out of 450 only 200 hospitals have survived. But that is about to change said delegates at Healthcare Latam, the first Pan-Latin American event devoted to private health care services.
Aside from Rede D’Or, Intermedica and Amil, Brazil is dominated by many thousands of small private hospitals. At Healthcare Latam, the inaugural Pan-Latam healthcare conference held in Sao Paolo this month, we learnt that many are now doing badly, but still won’t sell. Meanwhile, employers are seeking structural changes in healthcare delivery.
Public sector education is failing to build the nursing and doctor capacity that is needed around the world. We talk to academic Kevin Kinser at PennState University in the USA who specialises in tracking the for-profit tertiary education sector about the sector in general and about healthcare specifically. This is part of a series of articles on medical training and the private sector.
Imaging and lab group Alliar has its eyes on another giant Private Public partnership (PPP) contract in Brazil which would be twice as big as its US$60m a year, 11.5 year contract with Bahia state, says CEO Fernando Termi, speaking at the inaugural Healthcare Latam conference.
The large-scale Polish doctors strike over the past month, which has widespread public support, could boost private healthcare spending in the country if disruptions in public services worsen.
A Polish clinic is pioneering cutting edge robot rehabilitation in Poland – but politics and funding problems are causing headaches for the CEO and founder. Healthcare Europa chats to him to find out more about the state of the rehab market in Poland.
Elderly people in nursing homes in Latin America behave very differently from Europeans, Roderick Peterson at Acalis Latin America, told the first Healthcare Latam conference which took place in October 2017 in Sao Paolo. How, why and what impact does this have?
Infrastructure private equity group Antin has entered into negotiations to acquire French hospital group Almaviva Sante. We speak to a well-placed investor with knowledge of the deal, and consider why the price we hear being discussed is so low.
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