UAE-based integrated healthcare provider VPS Healthcare has signed a deal with Etihad Airways which will provide its Saudi patients with reduced fares to some of its hospital hubs, in a move designed to further attract medical tourists.
American Hospital Dubai has entered into a joint venture with Sweden-based Livio, the largest fertility operator in the Nordic region. American Hospital Dubai is a 254-bed, acute care, general medical/surgical private hospital with a multi-specialty physician group practice, designed to provide a high-quality, American standard of healthcare. The deal will see Livio, formerly "IVF Sverige", […]
Dutch non-profit nursing home and homecare provider Aafje is setting up two franchise businesses in what we hear is the Dutch non-profit sector's first ever foray into for-profit healthcare.
This week we interview the CEO of French domiciliary care start-up Ouihelp, who is sceptical about patient-facing digital innovation in the sector. His comments come at a time when digital solutions are being widely explored as the key to improving everything from patient engagement, service accessibility and preventive healthcare.
UnitedHealth Group (UHG), the largest private healthcare company in the world by revenue ($226bn) and owner of Brazilian insurer Amil, has replaced the CEO of its Brazilian operations with an executive from Amil itself. The change coincides with the group's Q3 results.
South Africa's national health insurance (NHI) reform could seriously disrupt the country's lab and radiology markets, a well-placed advisor tells HBI. But the country's Big Three hospital groups and Big Three lab chains are unlikely to reap the benefits, potentially opening up the market to smaller players.
Europe's third-largest nursing home group by revenue, DomusVi, has appointed a new CEO with no healthcare services management experience. He is the group's third CEO in the space of a year.
An outsider who doesn’t believe in “old answers” and wants to ‘’do things differently’’, Soi, 46, has big plans for the about-to-be-merged Max and Radiant businesses. The large Indian hospital chain is backed by private equity firm KKR-with 12 large and metro-based hospitals and 4 day-care centres, with 2019-20 expected sales of INR 4,200 crores (US$631m), making it second only to Apollo He talks exclusively to HBI about his plans and where he sees growth.
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