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Selling whole genome sequencing to consumers

Javier Echevarria, CEO, Europe and LatAm of Veritas International (VI) has one of the most interesting challenges in marketing - how do you persuade wealthy consumers to spend around $2,000 on predictive whole genome sequencing (WGS)?  He has a broad canvas - his remit is to sell across LatAm, UAE, Europe and Japan.

European domiciliary care provider breaks even in Asia

Buurtzorg, a Dutch domiciliary care business, is finally breaking even on the Asian market after a challenging first few years. We speak to Buurtzorg Asia's CEO Stephan Dyckerhoff about the difficulties of implementing his model in the far East.

Dementia insurance policies in Europe within a year

Dementia policies which pay out for care are available in Japan and the USA and will be sold in Europe by the autumn of 2019 or earlier, says Peter Ohmenus, President and CEO of Dacadoo, the digital genetics wellness platform.

Building international homecare businesses

Domiciliary homecare is regarded with much scepticism by private equity and many large nursing home groups. How do you build quality?  How do you compete with mom'n'pops? But some groups are definitely building scale internationally.

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: 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.

IHH becomes a major player in India

The largest Asian hospital chain, IHH Healthcare Berhad, has acquired Global Hospitals, India’s fourth largest group, in a deal which takes IHH’s Indian revenues to a run rate of around INR 12bn ($181m) in calendar 2015 with over 1,800 beds. The deal saw IHH pay INR 10.2bn for a 73.4% stake and inject a further […]

Report: Reforming China’s hospital sector

Between 2009 and 2014, the Chinese government spent over $370bn on healthcare, three times the $124bn initially planned. It is now drafting a new set of reforms in its new five-year road map to 2020, by which time total healthcare spending is expected to reach $1 trillion according to McKinsey.

Report: Bulgarian Healthcare Market – A private cure for a public problem

Bulgaria is the poorest and most corrupt country in the European Union. It also has a surprisingly large private hospital sector. As in Turkey and Finland, patients are free to use their National Health Insurance Funds to partly pay for private treatment. The public sector appears to be in terminal retreat. Here we profile the top ten players and talk to several CEOs on why and where they see expansion.

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