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Interview: Javier Eguiguren, CFO, Banmédica

Santiago-listed payor-provider Banmédica is at the forefront of international expansion in Latin America with six insurers, ten hospitals and eight outpatient clinics in Chile, Colombia and Peru. Sales were up 14.5% to CLP 265bn (US$ 380m) in 2015, with a 9% EBITDA margin. This year it plans to invest over US$100m to expand capacities in all three countries, jumping from 1,900 to 2,500 hospital beds. We talk to CFO Javier Eguiguren.
May 20, 2016

Facebook for care home residents works for Korian

Korian, Europe’s largest nursing home group, has decided to roll out Famileo, a Facebook like app which can be printed off as a magazine, through all its nursing homes across all five countries. The software is designed to make it easier for relatives to communicate with reisdent. We talk about the results of Korian’s trial of the software with Group Project Manager, Stéphane Revault.
May 20, 2016

Mediq for sale

Deutsche Bank and Evercore are seeking buyers for Mediq, the multinational medicalised homecare and direct-to-hospital distributor bought by private equity house Advent International in 2013. We look at likely buyers and at the company.
May 20, 2016

French hospital operator Avenir Santé for sale

French private equity firm Montefiore is exiting its six-year investment with regional hospital operator Avenir Santé and wants to sell its 72% stake in the group. Expect the buyer to be announced in the next two months.
May 19, 2016

Chinese private equity hesitantly entering elderly care

Hong Kong-listed investment group China Everbright Ltd. is buying Beijing Huichen Nursing Home Management as part of its Healthcare Fund I. Xiaoyin Shen from Everbright's healthcare division told Healthcare Nova that investors are starting look at elderly care platforms in China as the government takes steps to liberalize the sector.
May 19, 2016

Optegra looks at expansion opportunities in the UK and Europe

Six months after opening a new hospital on Harley street, UK-based ophthalmology chain Optegra is considering new expansions across several UK sites. Roberto Cirillo, CEO of Optegra, says the group is keen to see more NHS contracts. Optegra is also actively looking at opportunities in Europe.
May 19, 2016

Luz Saude to implement value-based healthcare

Luz Saude, Portugal's largest private healthcare network, is attempting to implement value-based healthcare through the creation of “specialised multidisciplinary centres”, which focus on conditions such as headaches and diabetes, rather than specialties. From 10 today, the group aims to create 45 of these centres by the end of 2018. Doctors are systematically reporting, measuring and benchmarking quality outcomes - and measuring costs. In a presentation at Healthcare Business International 2016, Isabel Vaz, CEO of Luz Saude, said it was "only a question of time" before private insurers introduced pay for performance.
May 18, 2016
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