Who carries out healthcare services may sound like something only providers have to deal with, but finding qualified medical staff that complies with regulation is also difficult for insurers. Brazil is a case in point.
Recruiters’ ears would have perked up this week as the CEOs of two giant hospital groups announced their departure, but they might have a job on their hands.
India’s second largest healthcare chain Fortis is partnering with home hospitalisation specialist Healthcare At Home India (HCAHI). But the post-acute homecare segment brings its own set of challenges, says Raghava Rao, executive director of consultancy Camomile Healthcare Ventures.
There has been a 96% drop in the number of nurses from the EU registering to work in the UK since July last year. Healthcare Europa has been talking to operators and consultants about what effect this might have.
Having presided over a 36% drop in the value of the company's shares since taking charge just over three years ago, Life Healthcare's CEO André Meyer is to step down from his role at South Africa's second largest hospital group. In the short term, he will be replaced by current CFO Pieter van der Westhuize.
Spire Healthcare's executive chairman has stepped down so he can receive treatment for a medical condition sparking a search for a new CEO, the group announced yesterday.
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 […]
Hospitals are facing increasing pressure to extend their services - and one solution, according to operators at HBI 2017, is to look to the post-acute homecare segment which offers an opportunity to follow the patient once they are discharged.
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