Romania is set to increase its public healthcare budget in 2018 which could potentially impact private healthcare operators - but industry insiders are telling Healthcare Europa they are sceptical as to whether it will actually happen given the political instability and government funding problems in the country.
Healthcare Europa hears that as predicted, local authorities in Poland are revoking or reducing the value of contracts with private providers who are not part of the country's new 'hospital network' - but two segments should be safe, and one is almost certain to be de-privatised.
The term integrated care can sometimes feel like an over-used buzzword. So it can help to think about what it means for the very patients who are most often failed by existing fragmented systems of care. For Jonathan Darer that means those with complex co-morbidities and how they are treated across the medical system from acute to their homes. Here we to talk to Dr.Darer, Medical Director, Siemens Healthineers and former chief innovation officer at Geisinger to explore why and what integrated care for such patients should look like and how to best deliver it. Few healthcare systems in the world are yet capable of delivering a continuity of care experience that is needed for these complex patients.
Michael Porter's concept of value health has got horribly messed up with a developing scandal over the New Karolinska hospital in Sweden. Swedish sources are suggesting that the whole concept may now need to re-branded.
The term integrated care can sometimes feel like an over-used buzzword. So it can help to think about what it means for the very patients who are most often failed by existing fragmented systems of care. For Jonathan Darer that means those with complex co-morbidities and how they are treated across the medical system from acute to their homes. Here we to talk to Dr.Darer, Medical Director, Siemens Healthineers and former chief innovation officer at Geisinger to explore why and what integrated care for such patients should look like and how to best deliver it. Few healthcare systems in the world are yet capable of delivering a continuity of care experience that is needed for these complex patients.
We talk to contacts in Finland about what the fast-approaching SOTE reforms will mean for a primary care market dominated by the public sector. Both agree that Finland is much better placed to see consolidation of the sector than Sweden when it underwent similar reforms several years ago.
Ongoing and escalating legal battles to stop private insurance price hikes in Chile are hurting profits and plunging the industry into uncertainty, the president of a Chilean insurers association, Rafael Caviedes, tells Healthcare Nova.
Spanish healthcare PPP group Ribera Salud is likely to lose all its public contracts in Valencia, as the left-winged regional government ends all outsourcing to private providers. Healthcare Europa asks the company and well-placed sources in the region what the future holds for a business set to lose a significant source of profit.
Healthcare Nova hears that the much-discussed reform that will allow the private sector to be part of the Egyptian national health insurance system has been approved by the government. Implementation is now being prepared in five states.
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