American REIT Medical Properties Trust is entering new European markets, with “no ceiling” on funds and a new office in Luxembourg, the company's director of European operations and acquisitions tells Healthcare Europa.
Ireland's second largest nursing home chain CareChoice has a new owner. Healthcare Europa speaks to Bruno Candes, partner at French investment firm and infrastructure specialist InfraVia, about why he thinks now is the right time to invest in the care home market in Ireland - and his plans for expansion.
Nacional Seguros Vida y Salud, Bolivia’s largest health insurer, is looking to vertically integrate through a US$65m investment into a network of hospitals and clinics. Healthcare Nova speaks to president Jose Luis Camacho, who has US$20m put aside for expansion, but is looking for external investors to finance the additional US$45m.
Apollo, India’s second largest healthcare services chain, has surpassed $1bn revenue for the financial year ending March 31 - but its results were hit by demonetisation, a cylone, stent caps, and what it called a "VIP admission". Healthcare Nova spoke to Ms Suneeta Reddy, managing director of Apollo Hospitals, during the company's investor teleconference on May 31.
Big data analytics is finally paying dividends, says Fullerton, which mainly provides outpatient healthcare services to corporates and insurers through a network of 225 wholly owned clinics across six countries and 8,000 medical provider partners around the world. CIO Ted Minkinow says that Fullerton, working with Microsoft, has been able to identify potential fraud and wastage in Singapore. He also claims that big data can now predict with 70% accuracy over a two-year period which patients will have a major healthcare problem such as a heart attack. “It is more accurate than the doctor” he says. We also profile Fullerton.
Can for-profits play a role in primary care to very poor people? Two business models presented at the Asia Healthcare Summit suggest the answer is a qualified yes.
With Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) looking to tap into the Medical Office Building (MOB) market in Germany and the Netherlands in particular, Ronald Van Kessel, director at MOB manager Maron Healthcare, tells us about the advantages of investing into the Dutch primary care market.
Zebra Medical Vision is an Israeli health tech startup using AI to find patterns camouflaged in medical images. It has developed software solutions for 11 conditions and is seeking out providers to take them on. At the IFC conference in Barcelona earlier this month, we spoke to Eyal Gura, co-founder and chairman, about Zebra and also KolGene, which promises to Uberize the genetics market.
Held every two years, the IFC Global Private Health Conference brings together hundreds of private and public healthcare delegates from around the world. This year, in Barcelona, the main topic of conversation was how to create value in health systems, and Healthcare Nova and Healthcare Europa were there to find out more.
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