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FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: A patient platform app with 40,000 regular users

Medicover Poland created a mobile application at the end of 2016 that allows patients to manage their health from anywhere in the world. The platform allows patients to make appointments, access test results, message the doctor and nursing staff, order prescriptions and access Medicover’s telemedicine platform for remote consultations. Over 130,000 have used the service, with 40,000 going on to become regular users.
June 26, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Programme that minimises radiation doses for CT scans

CT scans, particularly in emergency settings, can generate high doses of radiation. Affidea has rolled out a programme across its 235 centres in 16 countries which prescribes levels for 72 different CT scans. This is based on its database of 75,000 examinations a month. This has led to Affidea creating 105 unified protocols to standardize operating procedures for CT scans. This program is key to Affidea’s strategy for winning international tenders.
June 26, 2018

Building international homecare businesses

Domiciliary homecare is regarded with much scepticism by private equity and many large nursing home groups. How do you build quality?  How do you compete with mom'n'pops? But some groups are definitely building scale internationally.
June 15, 2018

Interview: Giuseppe Recchi, CEO and Rowland Illing, CMO, Affidea

In a wide-ranging interview, we look at Affidea’s strategy and view of the market covering everything from partnerships with AI outfits, elite hospitals and payors through to the growth of private pay and the opportunities to manage entire health systems. How will the imaging services and radiotherapy group with HBI estimated sales of around €370m in 2017 grow and build over the next five years?
May 21, 2018

Private providers feeling the pinch in Poland

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.
April 3, 2018

Are you ready for GDPR?

The clock is ticking for businesses to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force on May 25. Healthcare Europa talks to Aetna International's CIO Alan Payne to find out what the data handling regulations mean for healthcare insurers and operators, and the challenges on the path to compliance.
February 19, 2018

MEDI System targets major Polish cities in its care home expansion

Poland’s largest elderly care home network group MEDI-System, owned by Orpea, is targeting major cities for expansion and branching into assisted living, the company tells Healthcare Europa. So what are the prospects for elderly care in the largest market in East Europe?
February 15, 2018

Organic growth powers Medicover

Strong organic growth at 14.5% was at the core of a robust set of results for German, East-European and Indian outpatient, hospital and lab group Medicover which announced its maiden results post its summer 2017 IPO.
February 13, 2018

It’s still worth doing business in Poland – if you know where to look

Despite radical reforms and a government implacably opposed to opening up markets to private operators, there’s still money to be made in Polish healthcare if you know where to look. Healthcare Europa speaks to a well-placed local investor who believes anyone taking a long-term view can still find Poland profitable.
February 7, 2018
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