SGX-listed Singapore Medical Group, a multidisciplinary specialist healthcare services provider with 29 clinics in Singapore, has entered into agreements to acquire two paediatric clinics. This marks its first foray into paediatrics.
Medics24, a small Finnish telehealth start-up is trying to find volunteers in the medical profession to help both patients and aid workers affected by the conflict in Syria. We talk to Jussi Korhonen, director at Medics24 about the benefits of digital health and the group’s Syria initiative.
The CEO of Norwegian care group Norlandia is to stand down in September, with her deputy taking her place.
Speaking to Healthcare Nova, Hilde-Britt Mellbye confirmed her replacement will be Yngvar Tov Herbjørnssønn, who is the group’s current organisational director and the deputy CEO. Mellbye will however be staying on until January 1, 2017, as an advisor to her replacement.
The UK has voted to leave the EU unleashing economic and political turmoil that has taken the legs out from under Sterling, ignited press hysteria and will likely see the leaders of both major parties replaced. As always, the NHS was front and centre during the campaign. But concerns for healthcare more broadly, including the private sector, are numerous. We talk to investors, operators and advisors.
Swedish care provider Humana is to IPO on March 22 in a listing which will value it at up to SEK3.3bn. The listing follows IPOs from Capio and Attendo in Sweden and from Pihlajalinna in Finland in 2015.
This week I thought I’d lay out the rationale behind our annual conference, now in its sixth year, which now covers private health care across Europe and all Emerging markets....
Given the size of the opportunity it is striking how little money is being invested by large financial institutions, private equity houses and big quoted groups in Emerging Markets. Why? And what is the way forward?
Worldwide, Stefan Larsson foresees a strong move in healthcare away from fee for service, in which quality is not measured and rewarded, to a system which measures and rewards outcomes. He thinks that model will apply across acute, elderly and chronic care. But how real is the shift? Here we talk to Larsson about examples of operators who have seen significant growth and about how payors are about to shift away from DRGs.
He is a Co-founder of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), a not-for-profit devoted to the development of global standards for measurement of health outcomes that matter to patients.
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