The Kremlin will legislate to allow doctors to remotely diagnose patients by the end of 2019, a well-connected source in Russia tells Healthcare Europa.
We find ourselves writing once again about universal health coverage this week, both in Indonesia where it has been introduced to large swathes of the population already, and India, where progress has been made but the initial programme has been delayed at least a month beyond its (now missed) launch date of last Wednesday.
It seems that India’s flagship health insurance scheme has faltered at the starting gate as prime minister Narendra Modi announced the programme is due to start over a month later than expected.
In 2014 the Indonesian government pledged to introduce universal health coverage to the world's fourth most populous country. Healthcare Nova speaks to the CEO of healthcare focused tech company Indonesia Philips, Suryo Suwignjo, about how healthcare companies can see opportunity where others see impossibility, and how UHC is facilitating the growth of the private market.
Private providers in Brazil have expressed dismay at the withdrawal of a resolution that would have forced individuals to pay more for their healthcare out-of-pocket.
Multiple contacts have told us that the Kenyan healthcare market could be in a bubble, with increasingly excessive valuations which could lead to a "correction" in the next 3-4 years. We put this to the chairman of one of the country's largest hospital groups.
The co-founder of one of Germany's largest telemedicine companies, which looks to have just sold in what is probably the largest ever acquisition in the sector, tells us he expects sickness-fund reimbursed telemedicine as a standalone service with diagnosis and prescription across all German states in the next 3-4 years. A lawyer at the heart of the sector broadly agrees.
Seven out of ten of Saudi Arabia's health insurance policyholders will no longer be able to get treatment at Ministry of Health facilities reimbursed after the government department cancelled service contracts with the country's two largest health insurers, Bupa Arabia and Tawuniya. A Bupa Arabia spokesperson tells us that this won't affect its policyholders who mostly use private facilities anyway, while a local contact says there is more to this than reasons cited in the Saudi press.
The three-week period for public comment on Saudi Arabia's draft PPP law has passed. We talk to a UAE-based lawyer about what the document, which could theoretically be made into law immediately, really means for those looking at entering into the country's healthcare sector through PPPs.
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