For-profit healthcare data platform the IVBAR Institute, which works for both payors and operators to analyse patient outcomes, is moving out of its native Sweden. We look at its business model and expansion plans.
Rumours that the private equity firm Waterland will sell the German rehabilitation giant have started to circulate. We put them to partner Dr Carsten Rahlfs and discussed the future of the market and acute care group ATOS.
Operating in 25 countries and across four continents, Sphera Global Health Care is building a global network of local expertise. Working mainly with insurers, the group acts as a middle man to assist access to international-standard medical services through local infrastructure – if it is not available. We speak to CEO Teo Sarda.
The Russian government may expand the favourable legislation surrounding the multi-billion dollar Moscow International Medical Cluster (MIMC) and foreign investment in it to expand beyond the Moscow region. Meantime, Israeli and South Korean operators have agreed to open branches, says Mikhail Yugay, CEO of IMC Foundation.
What does private health care services really look like today in Sub-Saharan Africa? Here Egbe, a former World Bank/IFC staff who has advised on the sector across the continent, digs into the data, sizing markets and operators. She goes on to look the trends which promise to transform the industry over the next decade.
Mayo, Johns Hopkins, Cleveland, UPMC and Texas Medical Centers have built huge revenue streams from patient referrals and affiliation programmes. Juan Carlos, formerly managing director at Johns Hopkins International, presents recent research including his estimates of revenue flows by group and dissects the business models, successful and unsuccessful, that they have deployed. What are the lessons for other players?
Bulgarian spinal treatment specialist American Spinal Clinic, which launched its first clinic in Sofia last year, is to expand to Romania, Turkey and Spain in 2018 in a bid to attract more medical tourists.
Nearly 500,000 patients from China travelled abroad for treatment in 2015 with 95% going to other Asian countries. That’s according to a survey by consultancy Global Growth Markets presented at the Private Healthcare Summit in London. But Pete Read, CEO of GGM, says that fear surrounding the lack of follow-up care is a big problem.
Ireland-based private clinic comparison website WhatClinic has spent €1m on the launch of a new sister platform in German in the hope to attract more patients seeking treatment abroad. The group tells Healthcare Europa it expects a ten-fold growth in the number of enquiries from patients in Germany in the first year.
GCC governments are doing everything they can to keep patients at home. It's working: between 2014 and 2016, private hospitals in the USA, the UK and Germany have all seen a drop in the number of medical tourists from the region - with Germany experiencing a fall of nearly 60%. Graham Elderfield, founder of consultancy Glenfield Consulting, explained why at the Private Healthcare Summit 2017 in London.
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