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The hospital group of the future: Presentation, Luiz de Luca, Americas Servicos Medicos, Brazil

Who better to take a look at the wide range of innovations being applied to hospital networks – from the political to the strategic and digital – than Luiz de Luca who heads up one of the largest hospital groups in Brazil (owned by United Health Group)? What will the sector in Brazil and Latin America look like in 10 years time? Luiz discusses the fundamental shifts occurring in the hospital sphere today and predicts future likely changes and models.

FREE BLOG The four things we learnt at this year’s Global Health Insurance Conference

There's a crisis in healthcare insurance in which traditional players face being squeezed out by large tech-savvy players entering the market and cozying up to providers. But there are also opportunities for insurers willing to embrace change quickly. Healthcare Nova was at the 9th Global Health Insurance Conference in Amsterdam at the end of last month talking to delegates to find out more. These are the four key things we took away.

Medica shares fall despite solid results

The UK teleradiology group Medica failed to meet expectations in debut interim results last week, setting a 6% slide in its share price in motion.

Free digital NHS platforms could give boost to private sector

Healthcare Europa speaks to the CEO's of potentially ground-breaking platforms unveiled at the NHS Innovation Expo in Manchester this week. Both say we could see more opportunities for private platforms to enter the market as a result of the digitisation of NHS records.

Challenges to Payors in the 21st century: Presentation, Damien Marmion , AXA Global Health

Dr Damien Marmion gives his personal views on the advent of connected healthcare, big data, analytics are a challenge and an opportunity for private medical insurers. In addition we all have an increasing need for better outcomes in terms of customer quality and affordability. Damien looks at the issues payors in general face before outlining solutions.

Payors and Providers : A new relationship: Presentation, Richard di Benedetto, Aetna International

The relationship between payors and providers is changing rapidly. In the USA, Aetna has already moved to a partnership model in which large providers are paid on a per capita basis, rather than by activity. Meanwhile, new apps are creating a much more direct relationship between insurers and patients. These enable remote diagnosis and enables the payor to steer patients to the most suitable provider. Di Benedetto looks at these changes and at how Aetna plans to roll them out worldwide.

Lessons on Healthcare from Falck: Presentation, Jan Steenhard, Falck

Falck is the quiet giant of healthcare running ambulance services, clinics, primary care, rehab and subscription services across 3 continents and 40 countries with over €1.5bn in health care revenue. Here, Jan unpackages some of its surprising business models, such as subscription healthcare sold to 1m individuals in Latam and 300,000 in the Nordic. How does it incentivise entrepreneurs who sell their businesses to Falck. What has Falck learnt from its international expansion and where does it see opportunities?

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