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Can you build a business on educating doctors and nurses?

Can you make a successful business educating doctors and nurses? You can if the growth of the world’s largest higher education network, Laureate, is anything to go by. Healthcare Nova catches up with Dr. Francisco Gutierrez, senior vice president of medicine and health sciences.

“Nearly half a million Chinese medical tourists in 2015,” says expert

Nearly 500,000 patients from China travelled abroad for treatment in 2015 with 95% going to other Asian countries. That’s according to a survey by consultancy Global Growth Markets presented at the Private Healthcare Summit in London. But Pete Read, CEO of GGM, says that fear surrounding the lack of follow-up care is a big problem.

Chinese investors – ready to take the plunge in Brazil?

Are the Chinese targeting the Brazilian healthcare market in a big way ahead of an expected boom, and if so, what are they planning to do? And why is one of the largest PE houses in the country planning to exit one of the country's largest healthcare maintenance organisations (HMOs)? Healthcare Nova speaks with Martin Benitez, CEO of Brazilian advisory MR Consultoria, about the state of the Brazilian healthcare market.

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