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Real solutions for retention and recruitment

Recruitment, retention and training are now the primary challenges for the healthcare services industry. The obvious solution to keeping staff - paying more – is no longer working. Private operators around the world are now fishing in a global market that's short of 15m healthcare workers. So what practical solutions are operators putting into force and what really works? We talk to 25 operators from across the world.
March 9, 2017

Metropolis acquires pathology lab group

Indian diagnostics chain Metropolis has acquired Sanjeevani Pathology Labs in Rajkot, Gujarat, in an all-cash transaction. HBI speaks to Metropolis managing director Ameera Shah to find out more about the reasons behind the deal which concluded earlier this month, and the group's business strategy.
February 28, 2017

FREE BLOG HR: an international market and an international headache

The ability to staff a healthcare provider is perhaps the prime determinant of its success. But recruiting, retaining and training doctors, nurses and support staff has never been harder. Nurses, in particular, are slipping out of health systems like water through a sieve. And their desperate employers are resorting to desperate, perhaps even illegal, measures to staff their wards.
February 24, 2017

FREE BLOG Teaching nurses and doctors – a profit centre

The world needs to train more surgeons in the next decade than have ever lived according to Dutch serial entrepreneur Jaap Maljers. So it is perhaps not surprising that investors are starting to see training in, and of itself, as a profit centre.
February 21, 2017

Medanta targets teaching and secondary cities

Privately owned hospital group Medanta has announced it will open a multi-speciality 1,000-bed facility in the city of Bhubaneswar in Eastern India within three years, at a cost of between Rs 750 crore and Rs 1,000 crore ($113m to $150m). We speak to Dr Naresh Trehan, the group's founder and managing director to find out more about his business plan to target “under served” areas of the country, and open educational facilities which private hospitals were previously not allowed to have.
February 20, 2017

Could TPG create Fortis-Manipal super group to rival Apollo?

Private equity group TPG hopes to follow its expected acquisition of the Indian hospital chain Fortis by merging the second biggest group in the country with the third largest, Manipal Health, reports the Indian press. That would create a 10,000-bed giant. What stands in its way?
February 20, 2017

Interview: Ariel Beery, CEO of MobileODT – turning mobile phones into diagnostic equipment

Are mobile phones the latest in high-tech, low cost diagnostic equipment? The humble mobile is being transformed into a medical tool, and the team behind this transformation say their bolt-on device brings expert clinical diagnosis to previously inaccessible areas. We caught up with Ariel Beery, co-founder and CEO of Israel-based MobileODT - which is in the running for the HBI Best Use of Digital Award at our 2017 conference in April - about his business model.
February 15, 2017

Vashishta wants to do it all over again

Sanjeev Vashishta, former CEO of SRL, the largest international diagnostic group in India, speaks to us about his plans to build a new lab network, Path Kind, backed by Mankind Pharma Group, which he claims is India’s fourth largest pharmaceutical group.
February 8, 2017

Aetna looks to emerging markets

Giant US healthcare insurer Aetna looks set to put its foot on the accelerator pedal in emerging markets. Dr Sneh Khemka, Senior Vice President of International Population Health Solutions at Aetna International, says Aetna has plans to rollout telehealth services in the coming year – and it seems that it has some large markets in its sights. Dr Sneh Khemka, Senior Vice President of International Population Health Solutions at Aetna International, would neither confirm nor deny that to be the case, but he was happy to talk about Aetna’s plans to rollout telehealth services in the coming year – and it seems that Aetna has some large markets in its sights.
January 25, 2017

Interview: Manasije Mishra, CEO Aetna India, MD of Indian Health Organisation

Manasije Mishra is the CEO of Aetna India, and managing director of Indian Health Organisation (IHO). IHO runs a membership scheme which, for a modest fee, gives its half-a-million members access to everything from free consultations with a doctor to access to discounted outpatient and lab services, and telemedicine. We talk to him about his business model, his members, and his plans for expansion.
January 23, 2017
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