HBI caught up with Norberto Jannuzzi, partner at Brazil based private equity group Patria Investimentos and 'Making smart investment choices' panelist at IFC’s Global Private Health Conference in Cape Town this week.
Global chemicals company Linde reported a 1% year-on-year drop in sales growth for healthcare, despite double-digit sales growth in all its other end markets.
Spanish hospital group Imed has begun building work on its new hospital in Alicante, Valencia. But is it foolish to invest further in a region so hostile to healthcare services? HBI speaks to a Spanish consultant to find out more.
The head of digital transformation at Italy’s largest for-profit hospital group tells HBI stagnant NHS tariffs combined with a push towards country-wide electronic health records could force smaller players to close.
Five of the largest UK university hospitals, with a total revenue of £6.2bn, have come together to compete more effectively in the international market for hospital and medical consulting as the King’s International Consortium (KIC). But will they be able to compete with the big US academic medical centres which dominate international tertiary medicine, or with Korean and Indian players who offer lower cost and more flexible hospital management?
The gap between doctors pay in the public and private sectors is rising steeply, according to international recruitment agencies. In some cases doctors are getting almost twice as much in the latter.
Sources at the Arab Health exhibition confirm that the ambitious Saudi 2030 project which will see the country transfer most health care service delivery to the for-profit sector is still on. What are the implications of this?
Hospital group HCA UK has launched a 24/7 concierge and ambulance service to ease acute admissions to its four London hospitals. It says it has seen over 100% revenue growth in the last year as a result. Is it trying to provide an alternative to the crowded NHS A&E departments across the country? HBI investigates.
Barry Mulholland is founding partner at MBI Healthcare Technologies, a UK digital health company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to find and fix data inaccuracies in hospital administration systems. He tells us how he believes AI platforms can help solve the elective care crisis.
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