MedLife, the largest private healthcare operator in Romania, has purchased a majority stake (80%) in medical services company Almina SRL, which runs eight medical centres in the counties of Dambovita and Ilfovs.
Czech healthcare provider Agel, which owns 36 hospitals across Central Europe, added seven facilities to its network last year - and more in the pipeline for 2017. We speak to its new CEO, Milan Leckeši.
Manasije Mishra is the CEO of Aetna India, and managing director of Indian Health Organisation (IHO). IHO runs a membership scheme which, for a modest fee, gives its half-a-million members access to everything from free consultations with a doctor to access to discounted outpatient and lab services, and telemedicine. We talk to him about his business model, his members, and his plans for expansion.
The Finnish Sote reform, which will bring freedom of choice into health and social care, will spell the end of the current outsourcing model used by Pihlajalinna, says its CEO Aarne Aktan. It’s not certain the new regional health authorities will pursue the joint ventures that the group has profited from, he said, and it's behind in the race to establish a consumer brand.
The health and social care group, Pihlajalinna, is the biggest (and arguably hardest to pronounce) name in Finnish outsourcing. It opened its first joint venture with Jämsä in 2010 and now receives 55% of its sales through this model. But the Finnish Sote reform, which will totally reshape the market, is fast approaching. Still, Aktan claims that Pihlajalinna, a weak consumer brand, will adapt to freedom of choice and the end of outsourcing as he knows it.
Two weeks ago, Singapore Medical Group (SMG), which owns 23 clinics in Singapore, bought a minority stake into City Clinic Asia, another Singaporean operator, in the hope to develop two clinics in Vietnam. Hien Nguyen Luong, director at PwC in Vietnam, says the country is increasingly appealing to foreign investors.
Medicover says it is not in negotiations to convert a shopping centre in the central Romanian city of Brasov into a private hospital - for now. But the group is keen to further expand in the country ahead of a potential IPO this year.
Beijing-based paediatric hospital operator New Century Healthcare is looking to raise HK$1bn (US$129m) in an IPO on the HK stock exchange this month. The group hopes to use the proceeds for expansion in tier-one cities in China.
Spain-based hearing aid specialist Gaes, which runs a network of 600 centres in Spain, Portugal, Turkey and South America, is looking for an external investor to fund its expansion projects.
Medics24, a small Finnish telehealth start-up is trying to find volunteers in the medical profession to help both patients and aid workers affected by the conflict in Syria. We talk to Jussi Korhonen, director at Medics24 about the benefits of digital health and the group’s Syria initiative.
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