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FREE BLOG Usability and design in healthcare comes of age

One reason why projects in healthcare services fail is poor usability. Telehealthcare, patient apps, medicalised homecare - it is easy to launch schemes which patients and practitioners find hard to use. That can have a huge impact on results. But specialists focused on the sector are beginning to emerge.

Burtzoorg CEO Jos de Blok takes on big four Dutch insurers

Jos de Blok, CEO of the Dutch homecare group Buurtzorg, has announced that he will enter the statutory health insurance market in 2017 with lauch details on December 6. Four big insurers - Achmea, VGZ, CZ and Menzis – have 90% of the market. Sources say there have been no successful new entries for 34 years. Could Jos de Blok break the curse?

Attendo IPOs and aims to create Europe’s largest elderly care group by 2025

As forecast here, Attendo, the largest Pan-Nordic chain is to IPO on Nasdaq Stockholm, creating a group with a market cap of at least €861m (SEK8bn) at the end of November 2015. Henrik Borelius, CEO of Attendo, told Healthcare Europa that accessing more capital will allow Attendo to strengthen its position in the Nordics. The group aims to become the largest private care home group in Europe by 2025.

Report: Reforming healthcare – trends and trajectories

European countries are undergoing rapid and substantial demographic and technological changes. Yet, healthcare systems are still mainly state-funded and acute-focused, as they have been for the past 70 years. This is starting to change.

Apollo launches homecare division in three Indian cities

Apollo Hospitals becomes the latest group to launch medicalised homecare services, a sector that sees increasing demand and players. The new platform with an investment of $8m, will initially be based around three large Indian cities and then rolled out to others.

Interview: Marco Álvarez, founder, Grupo Dabvsa

Who better to talk about elderly care in Mexico than Marco Álvarez, who has been running medicalised homecare and day care in Mexico City for a decade? Harvard-educated, he founded Grupo Dabvsa on 2005. He expects huge growth as Mexico ages “alarmingly fast” over the next half century. We talk to him about markets, consumers and expansion plans.

Report: All listed healthcare service companies active in Emerging Markets

Here we present the first comprehensive list of all 57 quoted healthcare service companies which are active in Emerging Markets. The list includes companies headquartered in the Developed World, who have interests in Emerging Markets, such as Air Liquide, Fresenius or Ramsay Health Care, as well as quoted operators from the region, such as IHH, Apollo or Integrated Diagnostic Holdings. It covers everyone from Chilean hospitals to Egyptian lab operators and from NYSE quoted operators in China to big groups in Malaysia and Indonesia.

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