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Akademikliniken to consolidate plastic surgery sector in the Nordics

Danish buyout firm Polaris has acquired a majority stake in plastic surgery and aesthetic treatment provider Akademikliniken. Under previous owner private equity house Valedo, Akademikliniken had tripled its hospital and clinic network in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. It now aims to further consolidate in the Nordics – according to CEO Magnus Jansson.

ICHOM Conference #1: The IT barrier to value-based healthcare

Operators that are implementing outcome measures revealed the IT challenges the model presents at measuring quality movement ICHOM’s annual conference last week in London. Costs vary from the tens of thousands to millions for international groups and operators have to choose between buying in software solutions or building their own. ICHOM has also released its own techhub to advertise the mini-industry growing around outcomes measurements.

ICHOM Conference: Long wait for outcomes measurement in low-income countries

With a few exceptions, value-based healthcare in the form dictated by the Institute of Clinical Health Outcome Measures (ICHOM), is limited to the rich world. That is not the vision of ICHOM’s founders, however. They want global measurement and benchmarking– essentially, the wider the search for best practice, the more variation and the more sites of competitive selection. Pharmaccess and the Novartis Foundation, who both spoke at the ICHOM conference, are slowly pushing the envelope.

Interview: Alejandro Ayón Lacayo, Medical Director, Hospital Cima, Costa Rica

Hospital CIMA San José is attracting medical tourists to Costa Rica. We talk to medical director Alejandro Ayón Lacayo about expanding capacities and competing with other booming Latin American destinations like Colombia.

Interview: Eduard Maták, partner at Penta Investments

Statist governments were recently elected in both Poland and Slovakia, completing the picture of market scepticism in Visegrad. Predictably, the future of the private healthcare sector is under question. That’s bad news for the Central European investment group, Penta, which favours healthcare services and insurance. Healthcare Europa discussed the changing political landscape and Penta’s future plans with partner, Eduard Maták.

Cheap lessons from Emerging Markets

Operators in emerging markets continue to innovate and drive down the price of care through creative business models and the use of technology. In doing so, they are the resolving the tensions between access, quality and cost. But healthcare in the rich world is lagging behind. A panel of speakers at our annual conference identified the key lessons that Europe needs to learn and why they fail to do so.

Interview: João Seabra, President Siemens Healthcare Western Europe & Western Africa

Big medtech is increasingly taking an interest in providing services. We talk to João about precisely how and where Siemens wants to engage more. Could it go as far as providing medical services?

Interview: Dr Sanjeev Kanoria

An ex-McKinsey consultant and a liver surgeon by training, Sanjeev is one of four brothers running a family conglomerate which is the second largest non-banking financial institution in India. He is also chairman of Advinia healthcare, a chain of 16 UK care homes which he founded in 1999 with his wife sangita. In 2017, he will launch a brand new 400 bed, multi-specialist hospital in New Mumbai, India, which plans a stream of joint ventures with specialist providers.

PiS lays out plans for Polish healthcare

The newly minted Law & Justice (PiS) administration is wasting no time stripping markets out of Polish healthcare. A bill that would limit the private ownership of public hospitals and ban dividends alongside proposals for free primary care are well on their way. Replacing the national insurer (NFZ) with a Beveridge system and a network of preferred service providers should follow. The era of commercialising state hospitals is over. Private operators will struggle to access public funds, but there is no resolve for the underfunded public system, suggesting more and more Poles will go private.

How expensive are South Africa’s private hospitals?

February's explosive report from the OECD on the unaffordability of South African private hospitals may have political repercussions. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told the South African press the study proves the market is broken – something he has “been telling South Africans all along, but no one wants to listen”. Here we look at the report and talk to the head of health at the OECD about its findings and also to Jonathan Broomberg, CEO of Discovery Health, the largest administrator of medical schemes in the country.

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