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Polish Mandatory Health Insurance/Reform: Presentation, Joe Ryan, CFO, Medicover

Joe has 17 years experience as CFO of Medicover, the only Pan-East European provider of comprehensive medical services from insurance to hospitals, ambulatory centres and diagnostics. Medicover is active across Poland, Germany, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Belarus, the Balkans and other ex-Soviet republics. Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2014, The Return of the Bull Market.

Romanian Private Healthcare – Still Growing? Presentation, Sergiu Negut, Associate Dean, Maastricht School of Management, Romania

INSEAD educated, Sergiu is the former Deputy CEO of Regina Maria, the big Romanian hospital and clinic chain and has also worked for Amgen. Over the last two years, among other initiatives, Sergiu has built a consultancy business advising healthcare services and investment companies on opportunities in Romania. Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2014, The Return of the Bull Market.

Romania to tighten basket of services

After nearly a decade since the last structural reforms to its healthcare system, the Romanian government is about to move to a new model, in which citizens' rights to free healthcare are carefully defined and restricted. Will this lead to a private healthcare bonanza?

Lab groups apply squeeze

Who would ever feel sorry for big reagent manufacturers - Abbott, Roche and Siemens? Well, from what we hear, the big lab groups really are squeezing them dry.

Bribery in healthcare

The vast majority of bribes paid by citizens in Europe have to do with access to healthcare, according to an EU anti-corruption report. Healthcare and pharma businesses in Europe are also the most likely of any industry, with 77% agreeing, to think that corruption is widespread in their country. The report puts the total cost of corruption in the EU at €120bn - a little less than the annual EU budget. We look at the underlying numbers.

Interview: Anna Herkmen, Eastern Europe Supervisor, Acibadem

Largest Turkish hospital group Acibadem is making a big play for international patients in the Balkans. The company is 75%-owned by Malaysian investment fund Khazanah Nasional and listed operator IHH Healthcare, and 25%-owned by the founding Aydinlar family. Acibadem runs 16 hospitals and nine outpatient clinics in Turkey, and owns 50.7% of Sistina hospital in Macedonia. The group is looking particularly hard at Romania, where 1,000 patients travelled to Acibadem for treatment in 2012. We talk to Anna Herkmen, head of Acibadem’s efforts in East Europe, to find out more.

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