Finnish healthcare group Coronaria says it is the country's first healthcare service provider to routinely use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) testing claiming it gives better, faster and cheaper results.
Spanish hospital management company Ribera Salud has taken a 34% stake in Slovakian diagnostics chain Pro Diagnostic Group, with a view to increasing their share in the coming months.
There are clear signs that the World Bank increasingly favours working with the private sector in healthcare services. But there is a way to go yet and British NGOs remain intransigent.
Private equity firm Advent International has sold all of its shares in Fleury S.A, the second-largest diagnostic laboratory group in Brasil, pocketing 1.3 billion real ($408m).
For-profit healthcare data platform the IVBAR Institute, which works for both payors and operators to analyse patient outcomes, is moving out of its native Sweden. We look at its business model and expansion plans.
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.
US insurer United Health has agreed a friendly deal to buy Banmedica, the integrated payor provider that covers Chile and has moved into Colombia and Peru. The deal values Banmedica's equity at US$2.8bn.
Dr Gregor Rothe, Head of Department for Laboratory Medicine, Marienkrankenhaus talks about Lab Diagnostics - From Hospitals, For Hospitals. As presented at HBI 2017. Click here to view the presentation.
Max Hotopf, CEO, Healthcare Business International shares his thoughts on Lab services outsourcing, The broader perspective. As presented at HBI 2017. Click here to view the presentation.
Historically, the diagnostic lab industry has not been good at arguing its case with payors, the medical profession and government. Emilie presents detailed, new research on its role and importance in healthcare systems, based on two indepth projects, covering the USA and ten countries around the world.
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