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Ukrainian free market “creating opportunities for investment”

Earlier this month, the Ukrainian government set in motion sweeping healthcare reforms that will allow citizens to sign contracts with private providers for the first time. Healthcare Europa speaks to Michael Amsel, CEO of Lissod, a private oncology hospital in the ex-Soviet state, about the investment opportunities this newly-created free market could engender.
July 24, 2018

Interview: BCG’s Michael Thorwarth – growth potential in the lab sector

Last week Healthcare Europa reported that Australian lab group Sonic Healthcare had acquired German anatomical pathology practice Pathologie Trier. With the European lab market looking increasingly consolidated, Healthcare Europa speaks to Boston Consulting Group partner Dr Michael Thorwarth about where he thinks growth potential in the sector lies.
July 19, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Working with medical elites to outsource complex services

By engaging with elite public-sector institutions and demonstrating that it could deliver a PET/CT service which would be demonstrably better than an existing and fragmented model, Alliance Medical, a Life Healthcare subsidiary and one of the two largest imaging service providers in Europe, managed to win a national contract for 60% of all England capacity. Since the commencement of the contract, AML has introduced additional PET/CT imaging capacity and has provided over 56,000 PET/CT scans during 2016, a growth of 50%. The judges liked the way that Alliance has worked closely with elite doctors and institutions and then delivered a wide-ranging service which met, or beat, their expectations.
June 26, 2018

HBI Awards 2018: Growing outsourcing by cutting costs

NephroPlus has managed to grow into the largest dialysis network in India by delivering high-quality services at low cost dialysis. It has achieved this through a focus on process, effectively leveraging its scale for procurement, creating an in-house training centre and internal maintenance and quality teams.
June 26, 2018

Payor-operator agreement heralds quiet revolution in Czech Republic

A quiet healthcare revolution is taking place in the Czech Republic. For the first time in almost two decades, providers and payors have reached an agreement on fees without the need for intervention by the Ministry of Health. Healthcare Europa speaks to an operator who says this is great news for private providers and a large step towards the creation of a more open market.
June 20, 2018

FREE BLOG Diaverum and Davita may lose massive Saudi contracts

The Saudi government is looking for cheap alternatives to current providers or a renegotiation of terms on its massive outsourced dialysis contracts worth half a billion dollars when they come up for renewal in 2019, Healthcare Nova has learnt. Other operators claim it could be done 20-25% cheaper than current costs.
June 4, 2018

Pihlajalinna and Helsinki-based insurer plan nationwide cooperation

Finnish outsourcing specialist Pihlajalinna and Helsinki-based insurer Fennia have announced long-term plans to jointly provide “comprehensive health and well-being services”. Healthcare Europa speaks to Pihlajalinna and a local operator to find out more.
May 31, 2018

Medgate AI project to cut costs by 30-40%

Digital healthcare pioneer Medgate is evaluating opportunities in Germany and other European countries. A chatbot based on the 12 million telehealth sessions it has held over the past 19 years is in development and will be launched at the end of 2018 and should reduce costs by 30-40%, Medgate CEO and founder Andy Fischer tells Healthcare Europa. 
May 21, 2018

Sphera spearheads expansion in Africa

Spanish operator Sphera Global Healthcare is expanding in Africa. Carlos Malet, co-founder and CFO, spoke to Healthcare Nova at HBI 2018 about the market for PPPs delivering efficient medical services in Africa.
April 25, 2018
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