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Israeli POCT brings cancer screening to a mobile phone

Israeli point-of-care testing (POCT) start up MobileODT uses a mobile phone and attachable scope to screen and detect cervical cancer. CEO and Co-founder Ariel Beery claims it had sales of $60,000 since April 2015 and believes it can become a $1bn business.
May 27, 2015

Telefónica brings subscription mobile health services to two million across Latin America

Healthcare Nova can reveal that mobile phone giant Telefónica is rolling out its mobile health services to all its Latin American countries over the next two months. Launched in Brazil in 2012 it now has 2m customers there. It is also about to turn Saluspot, a platform to message doctors and book appointments, into a subscription service. Mobile health services include 24/7 call centres and SMS health tips and advice.
May 27, 2015

Report: The changing face of the healthcare labour market

The global deficit of healthcare professionals is getting worse. The World Health Organisation estimates the shortage at 7m today rising to 13m by 2035 – or 18m if you include medical technicians. Not to mention the deficits in management staff. Operators need increasingly innovative ways to respond to the HR crisis, driving a paradigm shift in the landscape of medical training, recruitment and operation.
May 26, 2015

Interview: Jaime Cervantes Covarrubias, CEO, Grupo VitalMex, Mexico

Persuading public sector hospitals to outsource the management of surgery sounds unlikely to lead to business success. After all, surgeons are powerful and surgery is a jealously guarded core competency. You might imagine that few public sector hospitals would willingly outsource. Yet Vitalmex has grown sales to $300m with this very business model and is now active in Peru, Colombia and Brazil. Thailand and Turkey could be next.
May 26, 2015

Report: Successful business models in emerging markets

The IFC conference was brim full of confident operators who, despite all the obstacles, are making money and seeing huge growth in private healthcare in Emerging Markets. We report on the new business models.
May 19, 2015

Budget dialysis in Mexico

Dialysis clinic chain Medica SantaCarmen has recently raised $7m from the IFC to expand its clinic chain across Mexico. Director general Andres Gutierrez says the aim is to become the lowest cost supplier of dialysis services in Mexico. The aim? “To address the deep blue sea made up of the 50% of the population with […]
May 19, 2015

FREE BLOG The drive for universal health coverage

The global push for universal health coverage in the Emerging Markets is gathering pace, driven and stewarded by the World Health Organisation (WHO). In India, revolutionary health insurance systems have already granted access to 37 million of the poorest and most marginalised families. Brazil’s “Expanded right to health”, Mexico’s “Seguro Popular” and Thailand’s Universal Coverage scheme are just three other examples.
April 14, 2015

Report: The investor landscape in the Emerging Markets

Here we name and categorise the major investors in private healthcare services in the Developing World and get their view on the opportunities and problems they face. Developing World healthcare services have suddenly become wildly popular. New listed investment vehicles, such as GCC-based Amanat and Asian Healthcare Group in Malaysia have raised hundreds of millions of dollars with the promise of investing in healthcare services. Meanwhile, established private equity houses are launching funds worth up to $1bn and large healthcare services operators from Indonesia to Egypt are carrying out heavily oversubscribed IPOs on very high multiples.
March 31, 2015

Mexico in favour of PPPs

In the Developing World, PPPs are a hot topic. When widespread issues of poor infrastructure development, low quality services, in-efficiency and over-capacity hamper public healthcare sectors, PPP projects can help.
March 3, 2015
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