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FREE BLOG How best to invest in Africa in Healthcare

In Africa, outpatient services are much savvier investments than hospitals, says Steven Adjei, founder of BlueCloud Healthcare, an investment advisory and incubator fund for healthcare service businesses in Africa, told us this week.
March 17, 2015

Investing in Africa’s underdog healthcare businesses

BlueCloud Healthcare, a UK-based investment advisory firm and start-up business incubator focused healthcare service companies in sub-Saharan Africa, is tapping into private equity’s growing interest in the continent. Healthcare Nova spoke to founder Steven Adjei about the company and his take on investing in Africa.
March 17, 2015

IHH blocked from snapping up Fortis Singapore business

A Singaporean competition commission has provisionally blocked Parkway Holdings, Southeast Asia’s largest private healthcare provider, from a $137m takeover of diagnostic outpatient chain RadLink Asia.
March 17, 2015

Interview: Patrick Gontard, CEO, Citilab, CEO and Founder, Gontard & Cie

Total cost of ownership (TCO) models have increased EBITDA margins by 10-15 percentage points in the lab sector and can be used in any area of healthcare, says Gontard. A Swiss economist, he has perfected his model over 15 years, working first for Viollier, the second largest Swiss lab group, then at Integrated Diagnostics in Egypt and now at Citilab probably the second largest lab group in Russia. Gontard is speaking on TCO at Healthcare Europa 2015 on April 28 in London.
March 13, 2015

Could social franchising improve Africa’s private sector?

Social franchising – applying the principles of commercial franchising to promote social benefit rather than profit – is an increasingly popular model for health services in the Developing World. Joyce Wanderi, COO of Population Services Kenya, believes that social franchising can help organise the low-income private sector, combatting the common issues of underdeveloped infrastructure, a shortage of skilled health workers, lack of funding, weak procurement and distribution chains and ultimately, highly varied quality between providers.
March 11, 2015

Apollo backs cancer diagnostic group

Sapien Biosciences, backed by India’s Apollo Hospitals, has entered into collaboration with Bangalore-based diagnostic start-up OncoStem Diagnostics to develop a breast cancer recurrence prediction test.
March 11, 2015

Laastari and Aleris to compete on telehealth?

Finnish outpatient provider, Laastari Lähiklinikka, and Swedish diversified healthcare service player, Aleris, are now both offering telehealth services in the Nordics. Both services claim to offer greater patient convenience in the outpatient primary care market. How do they differ and which model looks the most promising?
February 26, 2015

Global Health Partner reports strong growth in Nordics

Swedish-based Global Health Partner (GHP) has released its 2014 annual results, which show positive signs for future growth. GHP run a chain of ambulatory clinics offering the best breed of holistic treatment in the fields of orthopaedics, bariatric, arrhythmia, general surgery and dental care and have struggled for some time. But 2014 looks to be different; we talk to CEO Daniel Ohman about GHP’s best ever results.
February 26, 2015
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