Pan-European diagnostic imaging group Affidea is selling its entire Bulgarian operation to Euromedica, a newly-formed Bulgarian operator run by the group’s ex-COO, for an undisclosed amount.
Pan-European lab group Synlab has bought the Finnish imaging and lab player Cityterveys for an unannounced fee. We speak to Dr Martti Kiuru, CEO of Cityterveys.
Using AI and machine learning to interpret big data promises to cut fraud, cut costs, deliver massive system improvements and improve diagnosis. Worldwide, there are probably over a thousand IT companies seeking to use big data to improve healthcare outcomes, ranging from Dr Watson, Microsoft, Google, Siemens, Philips and GE through to a myriad of start ups.
Teleradiology Solutions (YS), based in India, has signed a deal that will enable AI-based readings for many images. TS works with 150 hospitals in 20 countries.
A session at Healthcare Asia on market trends and opportunities in SE Asia brought together three of the largest hospital groups in SE Asia – Siloam in Indonesia, Metro Pacific in The Philippines and KPJ in Malaysia. So how do they see the world and what strategies are they adopting?
Having presided over a 36% drop in the value of the company's shares since taking charge just over three years ago, Life Healthcare's CEO André Meyer is to step down from his role at South Africa's second largest hospital group. In the short term, he will be replaced by current CFO Pieter van der Westhuize.
Every year, some 12,000 medical and care professionals are subject to serious investigation by the three largest professional bodies in the UK alone. So how do you deal with the doctor or nurse who starts abusing colleagues, who has sex with a patient, who makes mistakes or lies on their CV? We talk to Jonathan Coe, who runs The Clinic for Boundaries Studies, which offers an intensive course to get perpetrators to open their eyes, take responsibility and change their behaviour.
Zebra Medical Vision is an Israeli health tech startup using AI to find patterns camouflaged in medical images. It has developed software solutions for 11 conditions and is seeking out providers to take them on. At the IFC conference in Barcelona earlier this month, we spoke to Eyal Gura, co-founder and chairman, about Zebra and also KolGene, which promises to Uberize the genetics market.
Brazil’s second largest imaging group Alliar struck the country’s first PPP in this subsector in 2015 and more are now to come according to chief medical officer Dr Juan Jose Cevasco Junior who spoke at the IFC conference in Barcelona earlier this month.
With outsourcing in the lab diagnostics sector expected to rise in mature markets, what does the picture look like in emerging economies? Abhishek Singh, chief of strategy at Valiance Health and Ankur Bharti, CEO of Reheal Clinics (both ex-PwC) tell Healthcare Nova that hospitals are increasingly like to seek external partners to help run their pathology business.
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