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Payor/Provider Relationships – Who owns the Patient?

Moves to integrated healthcare and payment by the outcome are accelerating. This panel brings together payors and operators to discuss what new models really work and who owns the customer. Panellists: Carlos Araujo, Global Provider Contract Lead, Cigna Daniel Ohman, CEO, GHP Healthcare Sneh Khemka, VP Population & Health, Aetna International Moderated by Max Hotopf, […]

Ada Health building diagnostic results into its app

In the peak of Germany's pandemic, symptom-checker app Ada Health rapidly built a solution to digitally return COVID-19 test results to a lab's customers. Founder Claire Novorol tells HBI that the new capability is part of a long term strategy that will allow the company to better incorporate diagnostic data into its app.

BGI profits rocket but blacklisting could threaten supply chain

Profits at lab group Bejing Genomics Institute (BGI) are up 734% in the first half of the year after the company rapidly built 58 labs in 18 countries and sold 35m testing kits to 92% of the countries in the world for COVID-19. Yet the company is now caught up in the ever-escalating US-China trade war as two subsidiaries have been blacklisted by the States. HBI examines what this means for its global reach.

Interview: James Thorburn, CEO, City & County Healthcare

The CEO of City & County Healthcare, the second-largest domiciliary care provider in the UK with 2019 revenue of £ 236m, tells HBI how the company is navigating the COVID-19 crisis and what prospects are now like for a sale.

Medlife reveals sub-sector impact as summer activity normalises

Listed Romanian operator Medlife's H1 results partially reveal how the national lockdown affected its hospital, lab, dentistry, outpatient, pharmacy and corporate businesses. HBI analysis and investigation reveals the Q2 segment figures and the factors behind average price increases partially offseting sharp volume drops.

New NHS deal for England’s private sector

NHS England's exhaustive block-buying deal with the country's private hospitals will soon be replaced by a more local arrangement to help clear COVID-related backlogs of elective procedures, while smaller players are jostling to attack growing waiting lists for diagnostics. An advisor says the private sector is cutting corners when it comes to controlling COVID-19.

DIY: The key to building a dental network in India

If you’re building a dental network and can’t find the infrastructure you need, build it yourself. That’s the view of Louis Shakinovsky, chairman and co-founder at Global Dental Services, which as Clove Dental runs India’s biggest dental group. HBI caught up with him last week to find out more.

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