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Argentinian healthcare overhaul meets with opposition

Reforms designed to overhaul universal health coverage in Argentina, which will also see the introduction of country-wide electronic health records, are meeting with strong union opposition. We speak to an Argentinian healthcare expert to find out more.
December 6, 2017

Spanish church-funded hospital bids for public contracts as it looks to consolidate

A church-run not-for-profit hospital in Spain which is largely PMI funded is bidding alongside private hospitals for publicly-funded surgery contracts - and says it is targeting more private sector work and looking to consolidate church hospitals. But as it pays less tax than for-profit private operators, is the playing field fair? And would a united church hospital group be a threat? Healthcare Europa talks to Hospitales Catolicos de Madrid (HCM) to find out more.
November 27, 2017

Alliar hopes for giant PPP contract

Imaging and lab group Alliar has its eyes on another giant Private Public partnership (PPP) contract in Brazil which would be twice as big as its US$60m a year, 11.5 year contract with Bahia state, says CEO Fernando Termi, speaking at the inaugural Healthcare Latam conference.
October 26, 2017

Clinical outsourcer Vocare gets Totally bought

Fast-growing clinical outsourcer Totally announced plans to buy the Vocare Group for £11m last week, a step-up in its consolidation of the UK outsourcing sector. Healthcare Europa speaks to Totally's CEO to find out more.
October 9, 2017

IVBAR spreads its wings

For-profit healthcare data platform the IVBAR Institute, which works for both payors and operators to analyse patient outcomes, is moving out of its native Sweden. We look at its business model and expansion plans. 
September 27, 2017

“We can meet the needs of the baby boom generation with today’s medical capacity”

That is a very bold statement indeed. But Prof Richard Boucherie at the Centre for Healthcare Operations Improvement and Research (CHOIR) of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, reckons it is true. For the past 15 years CHOIR has been helping Dutch hospitals, labs and homecare groups to increase their efficiency through mathematical modelling using operations research methods including queueing theory, optimisation and computer simulation. We interview him on how such an approach can make massive efficiency gains.
September 26, 2017

Interview: Yngvar Tov Herbjørnssønn, CEO of Norlandia

It is one year since Nordics company Norlandia, which runs nursing homes and social care units in Norway, Sweden and Finland, appointed its new CEO Yngvar Tov Herbjørnssønn. Healthcare Europa chats with him about the group's relationship with municipalities, international expansion and changes in the long-term care market in the region.
August 20, 2017
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