Maternal health and gynaecology specialist Thompson Medical is considering a listing on the Singapore Stock Exchange –targeting a S$5bn (US$3.7bn) market cap, according to local reports.
With less interest in India, the Malaysian primary care group, Qualitas Medical, would consider exiting the market should an appropriate deal emerge, according to executive director Karim Dhala. Its attention has shifted to Myanmar, where “it could be on the ground by next year,” and Vietnam, where it’s conversing with interested parties.
Singapore hospital operator Raffles Medical Group is to spend US$735m (S$1bn) in the next three years to expand its presence across Asia, especially in China.
Small Indian start-up LiveHealth, an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software targeting laboratories and imaging groups, is to expand across India, South-East Asia and the Middle East by 2017. We speak to CEO Abhimanyu Bhosale.
Tan Jit Seng, CEO of Lotus Eldercare, a small Singaporean homecare group, has a controversial vision of the future in elderly care. It’s one in which there are no care homes. Instead, care providers will work exclusively at the patients home, with the help of robots, voice recognition technology and remote surveillance.
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.
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.
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