Healthcare Nova speaks to the CEO of Emirates Hospital Group (EHG), whose company recently signed a deal to have their healthcare facilities managed by NMC. Could a merger-acquisition be on the horizon?
Genome sequencing – determining the complete DNA sequence of a person - has the potential to revolutionise the healthcare insurance industry. But in an industry based on risk, what effect will the increasing ability to predict how and when someone might die have on the market?
There's a crisis in healthcare insurance in which traditional players face being squeezed out by large tech-savvy players entering the market and cozying up to providers. But there are also opportunities for insurers willing to embrace change quickly. Healthcare Europa was at the 9th Global Health Insurance Conference in Amsterdam at the end of last month talking to delegates to find out more.
Saudi-based healthcare management organisation Interhealth Saudi Arabia entered into a private-public partnership to operate a 350-bed paediatric rehabilitation centre in Kazan. Healthcare Europa speaks to a source close to the company.
The Finnish operator Terveystalo closed its listing to the public and employees a day early last week – but its larger rival Mehiläinen is still optimistic about a private deal.
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.
Government regulations mean hospitals have been forced to cut their charges for drugs and devices in that cardiology and orthopaedics. Pacemakers are to be hit next, with falls of 50-70% in pricing. These price cuts apply even for wealthy private patients paying cash. Small wonder the largest player, Apollo Hospitals, is down 29% on the year with Fortis off 18%. So how are Indian hospital groups reacting?
Listed Swedish healthcare provider Capio has bought its third ophthalmology operator in a year, acquiring Norwegian company Orbita. We speak to Capio about the deal and look at how private hospitals are moving from inpatient to outpatient.
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.
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.
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