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Opportunities in East Europe

A panel at Healthcare Europa looked at what opportunities were opening up in the three of the largest East European markets - Russia, Poland and Romania. We report.
March 28, 2014

Centene set to buy Ribera Salud

Centene, the US Medicaid specialist, is set to buy Spanish hospital Ribera Salud, the company behind the pioneering Alzira model in which a consortium of private operators run primary and secondary care for the public payor for a region of 250,000-300,000 people. It plans to then export Alzira to countries as varied as Latin America, the UK and even North America.
March 27, 2014

Report: IT is finally giving operators the edge

It has been a tough five years for private healthcare in Europe. but what was noticeable at Healthcare Europa, the only annual conference for the sector, was the spring in the step of the CEOs of large operators such as BMI, Terveystalo and Euromedic. New web and big data applications are finally proving that they can grow patient numbers by 10% or more, demonstrate and measure quality and improve efficiency. The three things which stood out from this event were, firstly, clear signs that new IT is impacting the sector, secondly, the growing confidence of management teams in private companies that they can deploy this to good effect, and thirdly, a sense that the public sector was often completely incapable of rolling out similar solutions.
March 21, 2014

Acibadem gets 100,000 patients online in three months

Acibadem, the big Turkish private hospital chain which is owned by IHH has signed up 100,000 patients to its online platform which allows users to look at their records and interrogate physicians. We talk to Merve Caglayan, who runs the system.
March 21, 2014

Mediclinic sells to management

Mediclinic, the primary care group in the Czech Republic, was quietly sold to management by Penta Investments, the big Slovak private equity house, at the start of 2014. We look at the main players in the Czech primary care sector.
March 21, 2014

Global Health Partner sees price drops but brighter outlook

The real problem in elective acute care in Sweden has been a series of price cuts, according to Daniel Ohlman, CEO of Global Health Partners, a chain of 20 ambulatory clinics mainly in Sweden, but also in Denmark with one in the United Arab Emirates.
March 4, 2014

Insurers seek new solution as Poland mulls new occupational healthcare rules

Healthcare insurers in Poland are keen to build a platform to compete with Medicover, as well as Bupa-owned LUX-MED, administered by a third party. Meanwhile, it still looks likely that a new occupational healthcare law will be passed this Spring, which could trigger huge growth in the private sector.
February 13, 2014

Will supplementary insurance save French private providers?

Over the last three years, many people in the private sector have indicated that the real growth in France will come from the rise of supplementary insurance and the retreat of the state. “France will become a little more like America,” they tell us. The rise of supplementary insurance will give the private sector, from dentists to hospitals, the space they need to breathe. But is this really true?
February 7, 2014
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