Martin Hardens has quit German imaging consolidator and grouping Curagita to set up a Pan-European consolidation play in private outpatient diagnostic imaging. He plans to grow sales to €300m in five years.
The CEO of Russia’s biggest imaging group says the market is under severe pressure and the plummeting rouble has already caused bankruptcies. The Diagnostic Treatment Centre (DTC) serves 1.35 million patients a year and has 93 imaging centres. But a combination of intense competition and currency depreciation will cut dollar profits to a third of 2014 levels this year.
Author of the recently published book In Search of The Perfect Health System, Mark has got through three passports in six years as he tours the world looking at healthcare systems. We talk to him about uberisation, telehealth, innovation in elderly care and the role of private healthcare providers as governments around the world roll out statutory healthcare insurance.
One reason why projects in healthcare services fail is poor usability. Telehealthcare, patient apps, medicalised homecare - it is easy to launch schemes which patients and practitioners find hard to use. That can have a huge impact on results. But specialists focused on the sector are beginning to emerge.
In many Emerging Markets, entrepreneurs face the same journey from a business based entirely on the reputation on of a single doctor to the development of a corporate. Here we look at how Dr Richardson has built Nigeria’s largest fertility clinic and lab chain and his plans to build a complete integrated healthcare platform.
Having IPOed as recently as June 2015, Finnish healthcare group Pihlajalinna is to ask shareholders for a mandate to issue an extra €40m in shares. The shares have soared 70% above the IPO price to over €17. A €40m issue would leave the company with €70m of net cash. What might the company buy and what does the move tell us about the Finnish market?
US insurer Aetna has developed a customer app which is part of a wider strategy to reconfigure healthcare services around the world, particularly in Emerging Markets. We talk to Richard Di Benedetto, president of Aetna International.
Mexico boasts a large, innovative and vibrant private healthcare sector, which sits alongside a developing, but somewhat chaotic public sector. We look at the major players in the private sector, as well as at new innovators seeking to cut the cost of treatment to reach the masses.
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