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No let up for Russian imagers, says CEO of Diagnostic Treatment Centre

Times are still hard for Russian imaging groups despite the rouble stabilising after two years of dramatic decline, says Arkadi Stolpner, the CEO of the largest player. Margins should be around 15% this year, he claims, but his business, the Diagnostic Treatment Centre (DTC), will still expand through 12 nuclear medicine centres over the next three to four years.
September 9, 2016

First private imaging centre in Iraq

The Iraqi German Functional Imaging Clinic is opening Iraq's first private imaging centre in Baghdad in October 2016. The centre's gamma camera was uninstalled from a previous location in the United States in partnership with imaging group American Allied Imaging. Ibrahim Al Butaihi, a nuclear medicine consultant at Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam, Netherlands, will lead the project.
September 8, 2016

FREE BLOG Two business models that do work – after all!

A few years ago we scratched our heads and dismissed two very different business ideas as “no-goers” – teleradiology and formalising “Ladies from the East.” How wrong we were. For many years teleradiology really didn’t look like a flyer. Public sector hospitals  didn’t want to outsource image interpretation to the private sector. And (very well […]
September 6, 2016

FREE BLOG Two business models we didn’t think would fly

A few years ago we scratched our heads and dismissed two very different business ideas as “no-goers” – teleradiology and formalising “Ladies from the East.” How wrong we were. For many years teleradiology really didn’t look like a flyer. Public sector hospitals  didn’t want to outsource image interpretation to the private sector. And (very well […]
September 5, 2016

What impact will clarity on quality outcomes have on healthcare services?

We are about to find out the answer to that question. From April 2017, the UK’s Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) will go live with a mammoth website representing nearly 2 million datapoints covering the output of 14,000 consultant doctors with private practice at over 500 hospitals. Over 200 procedures will be measured in 11 ways. What does all this mean?
August 19, 2016

Interview: Ignacio Riesgo, independent healthcare consultant

We speak to Ignacio Riesgo, previously a healthcare leader at PwC in Madrid, and currently an independent advisor to both public and private providers. Riesgo muses on the industrialization of healthcare in his latest book Médicos o robots: La medicina que viene (Rasche).
August 2, 2016

Universal health coverage and private health care: Friends or foes?

Universal Health Coverage is now explicitly targeted by the third sustainable development goal set out by the United Nations. Increasingly, governments around the world want to offer it to their citizenry. Where the capacity will come from is less certain. In this report, Healthcare Nova asks experts at the forefront of UHC schemes from India to Mexico, where UHC is today and what role the private sector should play in extending healthcare access to the poor?
July 13, 2016

UK healthcare faces up to Brexit

The UK has voted to leave the EU unleashing economic and political turmoil that has taken the legs out from under Sterling, ignited press hysteria and will likely see the leaders of both major parties replaced. As always, the NHS was front and centre during the campaign. But concerns for healthcare more broadly, including the private sector, are numerous. We talk to investors, operators and advisors.
July 1, 2016
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