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“We can meet the needs of the baby boom generation with today’s medical capacity”

That is a very bold statement indeed. But Prof Richard Boucherie at the Centre for Healthcare Operations Improvement and Research (CHOIR) of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, reckons it is true. For the past 15 years CHOIR has been helping Dutch hospitals, labs and homecare groups to increase their efficiency through mathematical modelling using operations research methods including queueing theory, optimisation and computer simulation. We interview him on how such an approach can make massive efficiency gains.
September 26, 2017

Medica shares fall despite solid results

The UK teleradiology group Medica failed to meet expectations in debut interim results last week, setting a 6% slide in its share price in motion.
September 25, 2017

The future of remote diagnostics: Presentation, Alexander Boehmcker, Telemedicine Clinic Group

Teleradiology, the remote interpretation of images, has only become a viable business model in the last decade. Telepathology - the digitisation of diagnostic tests - is taking off now. Computer aided diagnostics will follow. All this creates a new market for collaborative diagnostic networks. Alex, who runs Europe's largest teleradiology group, explores the opportunities and challenges thrown up by this new world.
August 18, 2017

Interview: Ngu Morchu, MD and founder of Yako Medical Africa

How do you solve a problem like Nigerian healthcare? With a negligible private insurance market and limited-reach public healthcare system, it’s going to take an honest appraisal of the country’s problems and entrepreneurs with vision and drive to turn things around. Healthcare Nova speaks to Ngu Morchu, MD and founder of Yako Medical Africa which is pioneering new business models in imaging. He claims to have an answer, and he says it starts with creating “Africa’s Affidea”.
August 1, 2017

FREE BLOG Why foreign investors have not flocked to Brazil – despite deregulation

The Brazilian healthcare market opened up to foreign investment in 2015 – but has yet to see a lot of foreign investment bar a couple of large players. Why is this, what is the best model for operators, and where should they be looking? Healthcare Nova speaks to Brazil-based Marcelo do Ó, managing director at global consultants LEK.
July 27, 2017

Unilabs enters Portuguese radiology market

Pan-European diagnostics chain Unilabs is to complete its second acquisition in Portugal in less than a month. This time, it is buying clinical laboratory and radiology specialist Base Holding.
July 21, 2017
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