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Private insurers in East Asia: Between a rock and a hard place

Private medical insurers face colossal problems in China, India and across South East Asia. At this month’s Asia Healthcare Summit in Singapore, they were better at describing the challenges of culture, fraud and overtreatment than they were at coming up with solutions.
June 3, 2016

ICHOM Conference: Long wait for outcomes measurement in low-income countries

With a few exceptions, value-based healthcare in the form dictated by the Institute of Clinical Health Outcome Measures (ICHOM), is limited to the rich world. That is not the vision of ICHOM’s founders, however. They want global measurement and benchmarking– essentially, the wider the search for best practice, the more variation and the more sites of competitive selection. Pharmaccess and the Novartis Foundation, who both spoke at the ICHOM conference, are slowly pushing the envelope.
May 27, 2016

Elite care is dead end in Asia

High-end hospitals in Asia find their margins compressed by high fixed costs and small markets, claims Abraar Mir, CEO of Quadria Capital. Whereas, EBITDA margins of 40% are achievable in affordable secondary care and demand is much greater. Acute care markets are booming, nonetheless, with groups like Mitra Keluarga adding 2,000 beds per year.
May 5, 2016

Rating and booking sites: Threats or Friends?

There are growing signs that a new generation of rating and booking websites will change the face of outpatient care in many Emerging Markets. New players, sometimes backed by hundreds of millions of dollars, are investing in telehealth platforms that promise instant access to patients, partnering with pharmacies and making access to healthcare easier for patients. Some are active in dozens of countries. Here we talk to the major players about their strategies and how they see the market.
April 6, 2016

Siloam to invest $100m in expansion

Indonesia's largest hospital group PT Siloam International has a two-year plan to expand regionally with 13 new emergency hospitals. We talk to Managing Director Dr. Grace Frelita about the challenges faced by healthcare in the country.
April 5, 2016

Indonesian conglomerate Mayapada Group to build 17 hospitals

The hospitals division of Indonesian conglomerate Mayapada Group is to build 17 hospitals in large cities across the country. The project is worth an estimated US$360m and is in partnership with the National University Hospital Singapore.
January 21, 2016
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