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New CEO at Euromedic

Big imaging services provider Euromedic International has appointed Dimitris Moulavasilis as its new CEO, following the departure earlier in 2012 of Richard di Benedetto. A CFO has yet to be announced, but has been selected.

Private individuals shoulder healthcare burden

OECD figures for the early years of the recession show individuals paying more out-of-pocket (OOP) and on private medical insurance (PMI) as growth in public expenditure slowed to a halt. But statistics are often uncertain - DG Ecofin and the IMF disagreed publicly on stats for country healthcare spending at a recent conference.

New cancer centre for Romania

What is claimed to be the first specialised private cancer hospital in Romania has just opened in Brasov. We talk to the doctor behind the project, Aurel Tudose.

Civil servant becomes new Romanian Health Minister

In a surprise move, the leader of the new interim government Victor Ponta has appointed as minister of health the senior civil servant charged under the previous regime with putting together a reform programme.

Romania moves forwards

To the surprise of many Romanians, the Ministry of Health is quickly coming up with new ideas following the collapse of proposed reforms in early 2012...

Priel to create new Pan-East Europe group

Joseph Priel, the co-founder of Euromedic, the big imaging services provider, is creating a new East European healthcare group. So far, the group consists of a chain of clinics in Romania, plus plans to build the first big private hospital in Budapest. It is targeting self-payors - a market which Priel says is exploding as public healthcare systems across the region deteriorate....

Medicover buys Indinet

Medicover, the Pan-East European subscription healthcare business has bought InviMed, a chain of IVF clinics in Poland....

Interview: Dr Hasan Kus, Healthcare Business Development President, Anadolu Group

A third of all sales at Anadolu Medical Center (AMC), a JCI accredited hospital in Istanbul with 209 beds which is affiliated to John Hopkins in the USA, now comes from healthcare tourism. Last year foreign patients rose to 5,400. The main hospital is not-for-profit and part of the Anadolu Foundation, owned by Anadolu Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the country, but plans are afoot to put the healthcare tourism arm into a for-profit operation. Anadolu has just constructed a 82 bed on campus hotel to take outpatients and their families and is planning to add outpatient facilities in Romania and other client countries. The campus will also soon boast a University facility for teaching doctors, run by Anadolu Foundation....

New hospitals for Bucharest

Italian operator Policlinico di Monza plans a big hospital in Bucharest. So does Gral Medical....

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