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Interview: Mark Adams, CEO of Anglo Arabian Heathcare, on how changes in UAE will create winners – and losers

The healthcare system in the UAE is unusual. Around 85 to 90% of the workforce is from overseas, there’s a fragmented payor market and too many hospitals and clinics chasing too few patients. Something has to change, and as it does, there are going to be winners and losers. Mark Adams, founder and CEO of UAE-based integrated healthcare provider Anglo Arabian Heathcare, shared his views with Healthcare Nova.
August 24, 2016

eHealth – changing the role of the insurer – and nudging the insured to get healthy

The health insurance industry faces revolutionary change. eHealth is moving healthcare down the acuity curve, personalising treatment and bringing a new generation of wellness treatments online through mHealth apps. This, in turn, creates data, data that insurers are eager to get their hands on. They increasingly are, by creating their own bespoke apps or partnering with aggregators or popular wellness apps. But, adapting their business models to the data-driven economy, is moving insurers from a passive to an active role in people’s health, and raising tensions with consumer interests.
August 22, 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

Overall revenues up at Bupa – but Bupa Global’s profits decline

Overall revenues at Bupa are up according to its half year results – with only Bupa Global notably blotting the copybook with a decline in profits. Here is what Bupa had to say to Healthcare Europa and Nova about those Bupa Global figures - and their views on the thinking behind the recent sale of Bupa Home Healthcare to Celesio in the UK - together with a summary of the half-year report.
August 17, 2016

Auna’s frenetic race to build national chain in Peru

Private equity-backed Auna has gone from oncological payor-provider to Peru's third largest private healthcare chain in just three years. We speak to financial analyst Fernando Adrián Mendoza at Auna to get a grasp of Peru's prompt healthcare transformation. With global operators like Bupa lurking within Latin America, it's only a matter of time before M&A heats up in this country of 31m.
July 29, 2016

FREE BLOG Risk segmentation: What can it do?

We spoke to Mike Wagner from the Advisory Board, who proposes three-tier health insurance systems that prescribe different clinical pathways for chronic patients and the general population. Indeed, there's a flagrant lack of integrated chronic care, which requires multidisciplinary specialization. Especially if we consider that these diseases are pushing healthcare systems off the cliff, not only in the West, but also increasingly in countries with less developed healthcare infrastructure. Focusing on chronic disease is also key to tackling the social determinants of ill health.
July 28, 2016

Bourke takes the reins at Bupa

The diversified healthcare giant Bupa has promoted acting CEO and former CFO, Evelyn Bourke, to CEO. The appointment was widely expected, and will bring continuity to a business that undertook a £1.8bn M&A drive under former CEO, Stuart Fletcher, but saw profits suffer.
July 28, 2016

Interview: Mike Wagner, Executive Director, The Advisory Board

We speak to Mike Wagner, executive director at healthcare consultancy The Advisory Board. Wagner believes there'll be a move towards a risk-segmented payor system that combines greater cost control for chronic patients and more service-oriented healthcare for the bulk of the population. Giving up old reservations and partnering with disruptive newcomers is key.
July 20, 2016

Georgia to row back on UHC programme

Means testing may be reintroduced to Georgia, replacing its three-year-old universal health coverage system, as the government seeks efficiencies. The middle-income country now spends over 7% of GDP on health according to the World Bank. Boosts to primary care are also driving large operators like Georgia Healthcare Group (GHG) into the ambulatory market.
July 15, 2016
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