Mediclinic saw underlying EBITDA fall by 2.2% in the financial year 2017, described as “humbling” by its CEO, as challenges in the Middle East made their mark on its full year results.
Delegates at the 2017 IFC conference in Barcelona were not convinced that Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are the way to go for private healthcare services.
South Africa’s government faces a dilemma between ditching the single-payor single fund model of its National Health Insurance (NHI) policy, or offering the management of the scheme to the private sector. We heard more about this at the IFC conference in Barcelona last week.
Egyptian fund Rx Health Management is closing in on deals in Tanzania and Kenya, says the chairman of the African Health Federation (AHF). Healthcare entrepreneur Dr Amit Thakker told Healthcare Nova at the IFC Global Healthcare Conference in Barcelona earlier this month that Rx Health was in talks with groups in the two east African countries.
Blockchain was the buzzword of Health2.0’s conference in Barcelona last week. So what can the technology underlying the Bitcoin currency offer healthcare?
Dentex Healthcare Group, a UK dental partnership network that launched three years ago, is getting a £15m investment from South African-Mauritian firm Universal Partners to expand across the UK. We speak to Dentex CEO Barry Lanesman.
Nobody knows how big the medical tourism industry is but it might be shrinking, says publisher Keith Pollard who runs The International Medical Travel Journal (IMTJ).
If you want to use digital health to improve healthcare delivery then you need to think like NASA – and build your own Mission Control at the heart of your operation. This challenging suggestion was one of the key messages at HBI 2017, when a team of experts gathered to discuss how operators could get the most out of the digital revolution.
As payers move away from rewarding volume towards rewarding value, care delivery is increasingly organised outside of hospitals. But to what extent is it happening? Speakers at the 2017 HBI conference suggested that while it is too early too announce the death of hospital care, operators are facing some severe disruptions.
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