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Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.

Mexican maternity chain targets affordable market by ditching hotelier model

Healthcare Nova speaks to an operator who says he is providing affordable maternity and OBGYN services in Mexico by ditching the hotelier model, and drawing inspiration from other emerging market providers. Juan Moctezuma is co-founder and CEO of Reina Madre Hospital in Toluca, which has been included in Duke University's Global Health Institute Innovations in Healthcare 2018 cohort.

Interview: Charles Wang, Group CEO, Luye Medical Group

Formed as recently as 2015, Singapore-based Luye Medical Group has become one of the major contenders in health care services across China, Australia and SE Asia. It is part of the Luye Life Sciences Group which owns Luye Pharma Group, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in China and separately listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Luye Medical Group acquired Healthe Care, the third largest Australian for-profit hospital operators in 2016. It has since expanded its business rapidly adding healthcare operations such as oncology (Singapore), inpatient, outpatient and community based health care services (Australia) and rehabilitation and maternity hospitals (China). The aim, says Wang, is mainly to provide a value-based healthcare experience to meet the needs of the middle class and patients with private insurance coverage across SE Asia, Australia and China. Here we talk to him about Luye Medical Group’s plans and how it views the Chinese market. Wang is a speaker at HBI 2018, the global health care service event in London from April 10 to 11.

New medical services for Africa

An African temporary medical staff agency, international telepathology for diagnosing cancer and a cloud-based HR service are among the new projects from Corvus Health, the new for-profit business launched by Dr Kate Tulenko, an American with 15 years experience in health care services in emerging markets. She is a speaker at HBI 2018, April 10-11, 2018 in London. We explore the projects.

Optimedis gets new investor

Integrated care operator Optimedis, which is now active in the UK and the Netherlands as well as Germany, is getting a new round of financing and has also linked up with big diagnostic groups. 

Interview: Giovanni Trimboli, CEO, Novolabs, Italy

Times are tough in Italian healthcare and nowhere is the pain felt more acutely than in the private sector. Singled out by the 2012 National Spending Review, private operators of all types have seen five years of falling budgets. In the lab sector, they face a shrinking overall market and the difficulty of convincing public hospitals to outsource, says Trimboli, who runs a not-for-profit group in Lombardy.

Interview: Juan and José María Garrido, Weston Hill

Weston Hill is a Madrid-based asset management company that has been very busy in the Spanish dental market recently. Healthcare Europa speaks to brothers Juan and José María Garrido, founders, and the group's CEO and managing director respectively, about Weston's ongoing work with Institutos Odontológicos (IO) and the recent purchase of iDental.

Dentacoin – a cryptocurrency for the dental industry

A clinic in Taiwan just became the fourth dental practice to accept Dentacoin (DCN), after locations in the UK, Bulgaria and India opted into the dental industry exclusive cryptocurrency. Does it have a future?

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