Pro Tip: Learn how to use HBI Alerts to follow your favorite topics

Outpatient (ex Primary Care)

 

Medicover’s M&A blitz strategy

Having IPOed in the summer of 2017, outpatient, lab and occupational healthcare group Medicover has no debt and a war chest for M&A. So what are its plans, and what has it learnt from recent deals? We catch up with CEO Fredrik Ragmark at the Jefferies Conference in London. He talks about Medicover's four main target markets - Germany, Ukraine, India and Poland.

Interview: Anuj Arenja, CEO, QI Spine Clinic

An increasingly sedentary lifestyle in India is creating patients with more back and neck problems. Healthcare Nova speaks to Anuj Arenja, CEO of Indian spinal care chain QI Spine Clinic. He thinks he has a non-surgical answer, and is making £150m plans to more than quadruple his business over the next four years with expansion at home and abroad. 

Trump’s wall could hit Mexican medical tourism market

What does President Trump's Mexican wall plan mean for medical travel across the border? Some Mexican hospital groups have already reported a fall in US patients, but opinion is split on what the long-term effect will be. We talk to operators in the region to find out more.

Lenmed looks north 

South Africa's fourth largest hospital chain is already in Mozambique and Botswana and is keen to expand into other Sub-Saharan countries such as Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda. That might be with specialist outpatient chains.  But there are plenty of opportunities in South Africa as The Competition Commission stops the Big Three from making more inpatient acquisitions. We talk to Lenmed COO, Amil Devchand. 

Intercare deal could be a game-changer

This summer, Mediclinic, the listed South African, Europe and Mid-East hospital giant, quietly bought into Intercare, a South African outpatient, day hospital and sub-acute and rehabilitation hospital network which specialises in value-based healthcare, providing the best outcomes at the lowest costs. Here is why we think the acquisition is a game changer and why this is a business model that could be exported internationally.

Medicover targets Indian expansion following Q3 results

Listed pan-European healthcare and medical laboratory services provider Medicover saw its share price dip slightly, by 1.5%, as third quarter results were announced, despite a 16% jump in revenues and a 20% increase in EBITDA. India was announced as a key target for expansion, while Eastern European operations saw particularly strong growth.

Brazil: for-profit hospitals face crisis

Aside from Rede D’Or, Intermedica and Amil, Brazil is dominated by many thousands of small private hospitals. At Healthcare Latam, the inaugural Pan-Latam healthcare conference held in Sao Paolo this month, we learnt that many are now doing badly, but still won’t sell. Meanwhile, employers are seeking structural changes in healthcare delivery.

For-profit medical education – a survey

Public sector education is failing to build the nursing and doctor capacity that is needed around the world.  We talk to academic Kevin Kinser at PennState University in the USA who specialises in tracking the for-profit tertiary education sector about the sector in general and about healthcare specifically.  This is part of a series of articles on medical training and the private sector. 

Find Us