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Interview: James Cercone, president and founder, Sanigest Internacional

No one can rival Cercone’s expertise running and consulting on private healthcare service groups across the Developing World. In this wide ranging interview, we look at insurance trends, how hospital and diagnostic chains are growing and what the combination of information transparency and international hospital chains will look like in a few years time.
February 10, 2015

POCT will split the diagnostics market in two

Point-Of-Care-Testing (POCT) technologies are increasingly effective, affordable and available. Consumers can already pick up single-use tests for a variety of conditions from their local pharmacy. Within 1-3 years devices with internet connectivity will transmit health data to mobile devices. Traditional labs will be shielded by POCT’s specific advantages in the short term.
February 5, 2015

South Africa: the view from the insurers

Private Medical Insurers (PMIs) in South Africa say they don’t fear the introduction of a National Health Insurance policy. They don’t think the government is likely to restrict private insurance to top-up cover, over and above a new public insurance scheme. Healthcare Nova spoke to two of South Africa’s biggest insurers: Dr Jonny Broomberg, CEO of Discovery Health, and Heyn van Rooyen, Principal Officer for Medihelp.
February 3, 2015

FREE BLOG South to south will deliver

Healthcare services in markets such as Africa are likely to be delivered by Indian and Chinese companies, not Europeans and Americans. Here’s why.
February 3, 2015

Interview: Aschkan Abdul-Malek, founder, AlemHealth

Dubai-based AlemHealth is bringing teleradiology and telemedicine to the developing world via a global network of doctors linked up to private primary and secondary facilities in the Middle East. It plans to move into Asia and Africa within the next few months. We spoke to founder Aschkan Abdul-Malek about its business model.
January 27, 2015

From around the world…

Our news summary from around the developing world. This week covers Kazakhstan, Indonesia, India and Singapore.
January 20, 2015

Will the oil price crash hurt Gulf healthcare?

Despite crude more than halving in price, healthcare services are set to grow fast in the Arab oil states (the Gulf Cooperation Council). That reflects the introduction of mandatory health insurance, the rise of chronic disease and a growing population. We investigate.
January 20, 2015

Public and private health insurers to battle it out in South Africa

South Africa is bracing for a face-off between the government and private insurers over its fractured healthcare market. The government wants to bring all South Africans under a universal health insurance scheme, but the policy has suffered numerous delays. Now private insurers want to release their own rival policies, but this calls for a change of law. Healthcare Nova spoke to Dr Michael Thiede, founder of Scenarium Group, a healthcare and social protection policy consultancy.
January 8, 2015

Interview: Ameera Shah, Owner & Managing Director, Metropolis Healthcare

Interview: Ameera Shah, Owner & Managing Director, Metropolis Healthcare. Ameera set up Metropolis when she was just 20. Fourteen years on, the business is one of the big three labs in India. It is the only one of the big three to expand abroad with lab operations in seven countries across Africa, the Middle East and Sri Lanka. It carries out 15 million tests a year through 125 labs and 800 phlebotomy centres. Ameera is also speaking at our annual conference in London on April 28, 2015.
December 16, 2014

BMI CEO Watts to save £30 million a year through big cuts

BMI Healthcare, the UK’s largest, but not very profitable, private hospital chain, is trying to cut costs by £30 million, or roughly 4% a year excluding rents, through a cost-cutting scheme under new CEO Jill Watts. These changes come at a time when BMI is awaiting the outcome of the Competition and Markets Authority private healthcare investigation, flat-lining PMI caseloads and declining NHS tariffs.
December 4, 2014
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