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Outpatient sector to roar ahead in India

Single specialty chains offer the fastest growth in Indian healthcare says the CEO of MyDentist, Vikram Vora. Diabetes care, orthopaedics and rehab offer opportunities that remain untapped by private equity and are servicing the country’s growing elderly population.
May 5, 2016

Cheap lessons from Emerging Markets

Operators in emerging markets continue to innovate and drive down the price of care through creative business models and the use of technology. In doing so, they are the resolving the tensions between access, quality and cost. But healthcare in the rich world is lagging behind. A panel of speakers at our annual conference identified the key lessons that Europe needs to learn and why they fail to do so.
May 5, 2016

“Fast and furious growth” – A survey of private healthcare operators in Europe and Emerging Markets

Big for-profit healthcare operators expect to grow sales at over 10% annually for the next five years in Developed and Emerging Markets, but what do they see as their main challenges? A fascinating picture is revealed in a new survey of 81 mainly CEOs and CXOs in 37 countries of predominately large hospital chains, diagnostic labs and imaging players, commissioned by Siemens Healthineers (the new name for Siemens Healthcare) from Healthcare Business International. The quantitive survey was followed up with depth interviews with a dozen respondents.
May 4, 2016

Building brands that win patients

Nordic countries are moving towards healthcare systems where money follows the patient and there's a broader range of private providers to chose from. How are operators responding to greater competition? Johan Fredriksson from Praktikertjänst and Yrjo Narhinen from Terveystelo discussed brand building and patient choice at our HBI's 2016 Breaking Barriers conference.
May 4, 2016

Saudi’s five-year PPP plan

Plans to implement mandatory health insurance and expand capacity with new PPP contracts were laid out by Dr. Ibrahim Al-Omar, former Deputy Minister at the Saudi Ministry of Health, at our 2016 Breaking Barriers conference.
May 3, 2016

Northwest REIT buys Berlin MOBs

The Canadian REIT, Northwest Healthcare Properties, purchased two medical office buildings (MOBs) in Berlin for €13.5m. The Mehrower Allee Complex will pay a 6.8% yield with an average lease expiry of four years.
April 22, 2016

A new UK primary care model

GP Delivered Quick or GPDQ promises to get a family doctor to your door between 8AM and 11PM 365 days a year, usually within an hour. It charges upwards of £120 (€150) for the service. We spoke to founder and CMO, Dr Anshumen Bhagat, about the business model.
April 19, 2016

Abraaj close to $1bn target

Abraaj is close to its $1bn target for its mammoth Global Healthcare Fund. And its ambitions are becoming clearer.
March 31, 2016

So what really happened at Bupa?

After four years, in which he transformed Bupa with a £1.8bn M&A drive, the company announced that CEO Stuart Fletcher is to leave after failing to meet expectations. His departure follows 2015 results which saw a fall of pre-tax profits of 39% to £347m. Where does that leave his plans to build an international brand with strengths in services as well as insurance? What really went wrong? With 2015 sales of £9.8bn, Bupa still has heft. Outside the USA, it remains one of the two largest international private medical insurers, the largest international dentistry player, one of the largest care home groups and, probably, the largest player in outpatient care – certainly the only one with scale in four continents.
March 30, 2016
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