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FREE BLOG Care Delivery: Building integrated care for patients with many co-morbidities

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.

Care Delivery: Building integrated care for patients with many co-morbidities

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.

Ivory Coast has opportunities in imaging, labs and complex surgery

We talk to a consultant who tells us of a sea of private operators seeking financing from abroad, particularly in the areas of diagnostic imaging, medical laboratories and complex surgery - the three areas with the highest capex requirements. An unmet need for those services could mean a sound business opportunity. 

Philips buys stake in Med360

Imaging giant Philips has bought a stake in Med360, Germany's largest imaging service provider. Such vertical integration has long been talked about but is now becoming reality. 

International players needed to help with ambitious Turkish PPP programme

The Turkish government has an ambitious PPP program to build 34 hospitals totalling almost 43,000 beds, and is outsourcing five major clinical areas to the private sector. Healthcare Europa talks to a consultant who is working with the government, which is looking to involve international rehab and lab players.

Interview: Kieran Murphy, CEO, GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare employs several thousand software engineers today. So what will the medtech giant’s role in healthcare look like in five or ten years’ time? As an incumbent, does it see Apple, Google, and Amazon et al as a threat? And what sort of relationship does it want to forge with big private operators? We talk to Kieran who became CEO in June 2017, having run GE Healthcare Life Sciences for five years.

Interview: Kieran Murphy, CEO, GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare employs several thousand software engineers today. So what will the medtech giant’s role in healthcare look like in five or ten years’ time? As an incumbent, does it see Apple, Google, and Amazon et al as a threat? And what sort of relationship does it want to forge with big private operators? We talk to Kieran who became CEO in June 2017, having run GE Healthcare Life Sciences for five years.

Two Brazilian HMOs will IPO by April

Brazilian insurer-providers Hapvida Systema de Saude and Notre Dame Intermedica will go public in the next two months. We talk to contacts in the country - one of whom is in no doubt about which they would invest in.

Ribera Salud appoints ex-UK healthcare minister Alan Milburn

Ribera Salud, the Spanish hospital management company which is majority owned by US giant Centene Corporation has appointed Alan Milburn, a former Labour Minister of Health to its board. What does this tell us about its plans for the UK? 

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