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Spanish hospital group facing problems at home buys in Colombia

The third largest hospital group in Spain may be facing problems at home, but it has continued with its international expansion. It is part of a consortium buying up Colombia’s largest insurer and a network of clinics and hospitals, in a deal worth €250m.

Interview: Eyal Gura tells us how Zebra Medical Vision has set its gaze on revolutionizing healthcare

Zebra Medical Vision is an Israeli health tech startup using AI to find patterns camouflaged in medical images. It has developed software solutions for 11 conditions and is seeking out providers to take them on. At the IFC conference in Barcelona earlier this month, we spoke to Eyal Gura, co-founder and chairman, about Zebra and also KolGene, which promises to Uberize the genetics market.

Al Noor rears its ugly head in Mediclinic results

Mediclinic saw underlying EBITDA fall by 2.2% in the financial year 2017, described as “humbling” by its CEO, as challenges in the Middle East made their mark on its full year results.

Brazilian imager Alliar expects more PPPs

Brazil’s second largest imaging group Alliar struck the country’s first PPP in this subsector in 2015 and more are now to come according to chief medical officer Dr Juan Jose Cevasco Junior who spoke at the IFC conference in Barcelona earlier this month.

Real estate costs too high in Brazil, suggests Senior Assist CEO

Real estate prices scared off the major elderly care group Senior Assist International from entering Lat-Am’s biggest market. In conversation at the IFC conference earlier this month, Bart Vanderschrick, CEO of Senior Assist, said his group had looked at expanding into Brazil last year but found the cost of real estate was too high to make its business model viable.

Mongolia’s Intermed to become EBITDA positive

Intermed Hospital became the first JCI-accredited facility in Mongolia this year and expects its next results to show EBITDA positive figures for the first time, says President Dr T. Bolormaa.

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