Malaysia-based outpatient and corporate care group Qualitas has further delayed its listing on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), after lowering the value of its IPO, a market source tells Healthcare Nova.
Ali Parsa, the entrepreneurial founder of digital healthcare company babylon, is happy to work with operators – but he doesn’t think it’s necessary or always the best option, as his recent agreement with Chinese social media and messaging giant WeChat shows. Healthcare Europa caught up with him at HBI 2018 to find out more.
The introduction of social health insurance in India should provide universal healthcare access for the population, and drive growth in the private market, creating opportunities, attendees at HBI 2018 heard.
The Asian healthcare market is desperately in need of good providers but the operating environment remains challenging, according to the panel of experts at HBI 2018.
Today in India, as in many Emerging Markets, sick patients often go straight to hospital. Primary care has a poor reputation and is often viewed as corrupt by patients. Here Kaushik gives a detailed overview of how primary care works in India and unpackages its potential, before describing Healthspring's business model, which has seen it grow to a network of 30 clinics.
AI is being used in hospitals in Sweden to assess how much a patient is likely to cost based on a range of parameters - age, sex, condition, co-morbidities etc - and payors are then putting together "payment bundles" to operators to reflect how much treatment will cost.
Norwegian politicians are squeezing private operators out of elderly care and pulling contracts, we hear - and some are leaving the country or turning their focus to other sectors.
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.
Mexican lab group Grupo Diagnóstico ProA is for sale, although management wants to keep a majority stake says Chief Innovation Officer, Carlos Perez Chavez. We talk to him about opportunities and look at Salud Digna.
More consolidation is expected in primary care clinics in Switzerland, Healthcare Europa hears from an industry insider - but it will be a costly process.
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