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Interview: James Cercone, president and founder, Sanigest Internacional

No one can rival Cercone’s expertise running and consulting on private healthcare service groups across the Developing World. In this wide ranging interview, we look at insurance trends, how hospital and diagnostic chains are growing and what the combination of information transparency and international hospital chains will look like in a few years time.
February 10, 2015

Interview: Martin Swegmark, CEO, Purch

Procurement remains an area where healthcare providers can make substantial savings. Swedish-based Purch has started benchmarking prices across Europe, and works for the public sector in Norway and Sweden and for private players in seven countries. CEO Martin Swegmark joined what became the hospital chain Capio in 1998 and later spent a long time at the lab group Unilabs where he was involved in procurement projects where they achieved Pan-European pricing contracts from suppliers.
November 21, 2014

Interview: Jill Schwieters, EVP, Cielo, President Cielo Healthcare

People remain the main cost and the main asset for almost all healthcare service companies. Yet most operators could manage recruitment, training and retention better. Cielo Healthcare is the largest healthcare recruitment process outsourcer in the world and is active in Europe, Middle East, as well as North America. Schwieters has developed the business since its inception nine years ago. Before that, she was Chief HR Executive for the Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, an integrated healthcare system in the Midwest with nearly25,000 employees. Cielo is backed by AKKR, a fund raised by KKR to invest in service and technology companies.
September 29, 2014

Public healthcare sector killing private companies in Italy

Late payments, shut downs and politically driven management – welcome to the world of Italian private healthcare operators. We talk to Sergio Antonio Bolognese at Espansione, a consultancy specialising in advising the private sector, on the problems it faces.
August 4, 2014

Palamon sells Prospitalia

Palamon has sold its 2007 stake in Prospitalia, the largest German procurement hub, for three times its initial investment.
July 17, 2014

Five super-regions promise radical reform for Finland

The Finnish government, a coalition between the centre right and the social democrats, is proposing that all publicly paid for healthcare and care services should be procured by five new super regions. They would take over purchasing these services from the 320 municipalities who handle elderly and primary care and the 20 hospital regions who run acute care. But will the new regions actually take over the public nursing homes and hospitals or merely procurement of services? The move is seen as a potential bonanza for the private sector. Is this correct? We talk to Prof. Juhani Lehto about the odds on change.
April 14, 2014

Interview: Ralph Hefti

We look at why dentistry could develop into a series of international chains, rather like the big audit firms. How is dentistry changing and consolidating? Who better to ask than Hefti, who has recently finished a five year stint as CEO of Adent Cliniques Dentaires, the largest French Swiss dental chain.
February 18, 2014

GHX sells to Thoma Bravo

GHX, the world's leading eCommerce and exchange platform for medtech products, has been bought from a consortium of 20 suppliers and providers by tech-focused US private equity house Thoma Bravo. What ramifications will this have for transparency in procurement? We talk to Bruce Johnson, GHX CEO, and look at the price of the deal.
February 12, 2014
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