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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.

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Real time patient data monitoring for dialysis patients

In the majority of dialysis centres in India, patient data is recorded on paper and manually managed. To change this, NephroPlus, the largest dialysis network in India, has created a platform to monitor and maintain patient data digitally. In select centres, it has deployed real-time data which allows the clinical staff to monitor patient data remotely. This data has captured information on the Indian population which can be applied to further clinical research and awareness of nephrology. Its platform has allowed NephroPlus to generate automated recommendations and understand micro and macro trends which can influence its quality and decision making going forward.

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Franchised training to bridge staff shortages

India suffers from a dearth of skilled technicians and nurses for dialysis, making recruitment difficult and expensive. To counter this, NephroPlus created an in-house training academy for dialysis technicians. Eligible candidates are offered a guaranteed job, but students are also qualified to work as a dialysis technician outside of NephroPlus. To meet high demand, NephroPlus has franchised its training academy with seven currently operational and a further eight to open in 2018. With the ability to meet increased demand, it has also developed an optimal staff mix ratio to eradicate wasted spending.

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Halving the cost of dialysis

How do you slash the cost of dialysis to a level affordable in country with a GDP per capita of $1,600 and where public dialysis is often of poor quality? NephroPlus, India's largest dialysis chain has managed to cut costs for private pay from $30-40 to $20-25 in the private sector and its outsourced offering to the public sector costs just $15. 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.

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.

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.

Hope for tariffs in Portugal

Portuguese for-profit operators say they are optimistic that the leftist government will not introduce swingeing tariff cuts. 

Proactivity, political awareness and pro bono – the keys to PPP success in frontier markets

PPP success requires an awareness of the three Ps in frontier markets: Proactivity, political awareness, and pro bono work. That's according to American Hospital, the first healthcare services provider in Albania to introduce public-private partnerships to the country. Healthcare Europa sat in on HBI 2018's roundtable discussion on the subject to find out more.

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