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FREE BLOG Latam countries thriving despite recession

Despite, or perhaps because of the recession, prospects for private healthcare services in Latin America are good. The financial crisis in public healthcare is forcing governments to rethink attitudes to the private sector and to open up the sector to external investors. And new, innovative models are emerging. In this 6,000 word report we give a detailed analysis of the six main markets – Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Colombia, and over the next few days we'll be profiling those major players, country by country.
August 12, 2016

Einstein cuts costs

Retaining talent in hotelier hospitals and containing costs are two of private healthcare's main challenges in Latin America. Claudio Lottenberg, president of the Albert Einstein hospital in São Paulo, presented these challenges as two sides of the same coin at the Colombian private hospital association's 2016 ACHC Congress. Through engagement with physicians, Albert Einstein has achieved several milestones in cost control, quality and staff satisfaction, Lottenberg claimed.
July 6, 2016

Dasa to buy Laboratório Gaspar

Brazil's market leader in labs and diagnostics Diagnósticos da América (Dasa) is buying Laboratório Gaspar for R$60m (US$17.5m).
June 27, 2016

PMI resilient through Brazil’s recession

Unemployment may have crashed from 4% to 10.9% in the first quarter of 2016, but the number of lives covered by private medical insurance has fallen just 3.1% in 15 months. That is despite a 3.8% drop in GDP in 2015 and forecasts of a similar fall in 2016.
May 13, 2016

The cost of getting culture wrong in long-term care

Cultural issues are at the forefront of the difficulties in running and investing into long-term care in emerging markets. At the Healthcare Business International 2016 conference, the CEOs of Senior Assist, Belgium’s third largest care home operator and a player in Latin America and Turkey, and TVM Capital, a private equity firm investing in rehabilitation in the Middle East, shared their views on the sector.
May 3, 2016

Doctoralia innovates across Latin America

In an unusual innovation, Doctoralia, the international rating and online booking platform, is partnering with patient associations and getting doctors to rate doctors as part of an awards programme. Owned by its Spanish founders, Doctoralia is now active in over 20 countries, particularly Latin America. It claims patients book 100,000 appointments a month on its platform. We interview Frederic Llordachs, co-founder of Doctoralia. This month, we are also writing a detailed survey of how such sites are developing in Emerging Markets from Chile to China.
March 11, 2016
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