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Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.

Interview: Charles Wang, Group CEO, Luye Medical Group

Formed as recently as 2015, Singapore-based Luye Medical Group has become one of the major contenders in health care services across China, Australia and SE Asia. It is part of the Luye Life Sciences Group which owns Luye Pharma Group, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in China and separately listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Luye Medical Group acquired Healthe Care, the third largest Australian for-profit hospital operators in 2016. It has since expanded its business rapidly adding healthcare operations such as oncology (Singapore), inpatient, outpatient and community based health care services (Australia) and rehabilitation and maternity hospitals (China). The aim, says Wang, is mainly to provide a value-based healthcare experience to meet the needs of the middle class and patients with private insurance coverage across SE Asia, Australia and China. Here we talk to him about Luye Medical Group’s plans and how it views the Chinese market. Wang is a speaker at HBI 2018, the global health care service event in London from April 10 to 11.

Finnish nursing home group Hovi expands in Singapore

Family-owned Finnish nursing home group Hovi has made its first venture abroad. It has entered Southeast Asia by setting up an elderly day-care centre in Singapore. Group CEO Jussi Peltonen tells HBI of plans to further expand in the region.

Interview: Anand Narayan, managing partner, Creador India

Last month, Malaysia-based private equity house Creador invested in a healthcare services company - its first foray into the healthcare market. Healthcare Nova speaks to Anand Narayan, managing partner at Creador India, after it bought a 22% stake in Indian hospital chain Paras Healthcare for US$42m. Why did Creador want to invest in a company operating in some of India's poorest states?

SE Asian hospitals see the future clearly

A session at Healthcare Asia on market trends and opportunities in SE Asia brought together three of the largest hospital groups in SE Asia – Siloam in Indonesia, Metro Pacific in The Philippines and KPJ in Malaysia. So how do they see the world and what strategies are they adopting?

How big data works at Fullerton

Big data analytics is finally paying dividends, says Fullerton, which mainly provides outpatient healthcare services to corporates and insurers through a network of 225 wholly owned clinics across six countries and 8,000 medical provider partners around the world. CIO Ted Minkinow says that Fullerton, working with Microsoft, has been able to identify potential fraud and wastage in Singapore. He also claims that big data can now predict with 70% accuracy over a two-year period which patients will have a major healthcare problem such as a heart attack. “It is more accurate than the doctor” he says. We also profile Fullerton.

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