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FREE BLOG Uberising emergency services

It is interesting to find that one of the healthcare web apps most highly rated by Nicolaus Henke, who heads up McKinsey’s Analytics team and is a head of healthcare is Murgency, an app developed in California and launched in India as the world’s first emergency response app. Founder Shaffi Mather claims it has relevance to Europe and the USA as well, where call out times in remote areas can easily be 50-60 minutes and cost a small fortune.

Mobile health clinic for US$22,000

Clinic In A Can offers fully resourced, sterile and climate controlled medical clinics, with their own sources of water and power that can be shipped to any location in the world within days. They offer a radical solution to the widespread scarcity of basic healthcare infrastructure and equipment and a powerful tool for disaster relief, says Dr Michael Joseph Wawrzewski III, CEO and cofounder. Its shipping container clinics are now in 12 countries. He gave Healthcare Nova a tour.

Who’d buy Alliance Medical?

Alliance Medical, one of Europe’s two big imaging service groups, has appointed Rothschild to consider strategic options, according to Sky News. So who would want to buy it? Big medtech?

Private sector booming in Nigeria

There are numerous private hospitals under construction in Nigeria, as the government looks to the private sector to boost provision, and reverse the leaks of skilled staff and patient dollars, says Clare Omatseye, president of the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria.

Ping An Doctor app to bridge payer-provider gap in China

One year after its launch, Chinese insurer Ping An’s comprehensive ‘Doctor’ app raised $500m in a series A funding round. The app allows its users to access real-time consultations and health management services –becoming the most popular platform in a saturated digital market. We look at Ping An’s strategy to bridge the payer-provider gap.

Qualitas looking at Vietnam and Myanmar

The Malaysian primary care chain, Qualitas Health, is looking at Myanmar and Vietnam as part of its expansion plans. Executive director, Kharim Dhala, told Healthcare Nova his CFO is currently looking at opportunities.

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