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Russian hospital ready for IPO

Russian private clinic European Medical Center looks to be greasing the PR wheels with a recent Reuters article in which the CEO says the company is ready to go public in London or Moscow. He also reveals margins, dividend payout and how the company is protecting itself from a devaluing ruble.
July 4, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Aligning many operations under a single brand

Many health care service groups have a multiplicity of different brands. MediGroup, a Serbian health care group with 2017 revenues of €30m chose to align all its operations under one brand and created a new communication platform around the question “How are you today?” The result was a 3% increase in brand awareness in one year alongside a 10% increase in calls and 18% increase in visits.
June 26, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Building a personal health plan service platform for over 600,000 patients

Oma Terveys is a personal health plan service platform that can be used to monitor and review your care history, personal health plan, lab results and wellness goals. It introduced an 24/7 online GP chat function in 2016 using both text and video calling with the ability to attach photographs. It employs 200 GPs to monitor the chat service and claims to be able to reply in seconds. The platform also allows physicians to chat with each other to share information. The app has more than 658,000 registered users and Terveystalo, the biggest, for-profit medical provider in Finland claims that 13% of its physical visits (5.25m in 2017) end up registering.
June 26, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: A patient platform app with 40,000 regular users

Medicover Poland created a mobile application at the end of 2016 that allows patients to manage their health from anywhere in the world. The platform allows patients to make appointments, access test results, message the doctor and nursing staff, order prescriptions and access Medicover’s telemedicine platform for remote consultations. Over 130,000 have used the service, with 40,000 going on to become regular users.
June 26, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Value-driven outcomes tool that increases quality and cuts cost

In 2012, University of Utah Health introduced its Value Driven Outcomes (VDO) tool in both inpatient and ambulatory care, which has resulted in increased quality outcomes and more than $2.5m in cost savings. Providers can engage with the VDO tool to compare themselves to their peers and to identify standard care pathways and supplies that lower the cost of care while providing the best possible outcomes. The tool has been applied to sepsis, total joint replacement and laboratory services leading to improvements in outcomes and reductions in costs. The judges were impressed by the sophistication of the Utah offering. .
June 26, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Job placement app and college for poor women

In an effort to help women from low socio-economic backgrounds gain meaningful employment, Salus founded Instituto Salus, a nursing and healthcare college situated in a poor area. To match trained staff with medical services sold by its service providers, Salus has created its own job placement app to help increase efficiency in service delivery.
June 25, 2018

Abraaj sold out of court protection to Colony Capital

Abraaj Holdings and its fund management arm Abraaj Investment Management (AIM) have been sold out of provisional liquidation to Colony Capital, which changed its name from Colony Northstar in June 2018. The deal does not include the troubled Abraaj Global Health Fund, which has been hived off to Alix Partners. Colony is a listed US REIT with global ambitions.
June 21, 2018

Payor-operator agreement heralds quiet revolution in Czech Republic

A quiet healthcare revolution is taking place in the Czech Republic. For the first time in almost two decades, providers and payors have reached an agreement on fees without the need for intervention by the Ministry of Health. Healthcare Europa speaks to an operator who says this is great news for private providers and a large step towards the creation of a more open market.
June 20, 2018

Pihlajalinna and Helsinki-based insurer plan nationwide cooperation

Finnish outsourcing specialist Pihlajalinna and Helsinki-based insurer Fennia have announced long-term plans to jointly provide “comprehensive health and well-being services”. Healthcare Europa speaks to Pihlajalinna and a local operator to find out more.
May 31, 2018
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