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Saudi beckons for UAE’s National Reference Lab

National Reference Laboratory (NRL), a fast growing lab network in the United Arab Emirates, which has partnered with the Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), wants to become a regional player and is now looking beyond the UAE. We spoke to its marketing manager, Dr Bisera Laksinka.

UK dentistry group signs £15m deal with JSE-listed investor

Dentex Healthcare Group, a UK dental partnership network that launched three years ago, is getting a £15m investment from South African-Mauritian firm Universal Partners to expand across the UK. We speak to Dentex CEO Barry Lanesman.

How, why and whether to outsource labs in India

With outsourcing in the lab diagnostics sector expected to rise in mature markets, what does the picture look like in emerging economies? Abhishek Singh, chief of strategy at Valiance Health and Ankur Bharti, CEO of Reheal Clinics (both ex-PwC) tell Healthcare Nova that hospitals are increasingly like to seek external partners to help run their pathology business.

FREE BLOG Ten more things we learned from HBI 2017

Technical change could dramatically de-skill in the next five years Change is coming faster than you think. Computer added diagnosis of images could be 3-5 years off, rather than a decade away. Already machines can interpret many images more reliably than radiologists, according to several operators. In dentistry, new imaging techniques mean that the siting […]

HBI 2017: Are non-specialised hospitals doomed?

As payers move away from rewarding volume towards rewarding value, care delivery is increasingly organised outside of hospitals. But to what extent is it happening? Speakers at the 2017 HBI conference suggested that while it is too early too announce the death of hospital care, operators are facing some severe disruptions.

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