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Ping An Doctor app to bridge payer-provider gap in China

One year after its launch, Chinese insurer Ping An’s comprehensive ‘Doctor’ app raised $500m in a series A funding round. The app allows its users to access real-time consultations and health management services –becoming the most popular platform in a saturated digital market. We look at Ping An’s strategy to bridge the payer-provider gap.
June 3, 2016

Private insurers in East Asia: Between a rock and a hard place

Private medical insurers face colossal problems in China, India and across South East Asia. At this month’s Asia Healthcare Summit in Singapore, they were better at describing the challenges of culture, fraud and overtreatment than they were at coming up with solutions.
June 3, 2016

Facebook for care home residents works for Korian

Korian, Europe’s largest nursing home group, has decided to roll out Famileo, a Facebook like app which can be printed off as a magazine, through all its nursing homes across all five countries. The software is designed to make it easier for relatives to communicate with reisdent. We talk about the results of Korian’s trial of the software with Group Project Manager, Stéphane Revault.
May 20, 2016

Patients love telehealth

Medicover gets net promoter scores of 80% for its telehealth service, claims CFO Joe Ryan. The service can also significantly reduce capex and overheads.
May 5, 2016

Babylon claims new AI service is more accurate than doctors

It is confirmed: Babylon, a healthcare app allowing patients to consult a doctor on their phones, is launching in Rwanda in June. Prem Sharma, head of product, also introduced a new service that will offer a complete virtual GP experience thanks to an Artificial Intelligence (AI) triage system, at the Healthcare Business International 2016 conference's most popular session.
May 4, 2016

IFC backs Regency Hospital to expand in Uttar Pradesh

The World Bank's investment arm International Finance Corporation (IFC) is backing an Rs 160 crore ($24m) investment to expand Regency Hospital in Kanpur, India. The plan is to open a new secondary hospital and an oncology centre run jointly with Bangalore-based cancer specialist Health Care Global (HCG). Regency will also expand across Uttar Pradesh with new hospitals in Lucknow and Allahabad.
April 20, 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

Rating and booking sites: Threats or Friends?

There are growing signs that a new generation of rating and booking websites will change the face of outpatient care in many Emerging Markets. New players, sometimes backed by hundreds of millions of dollars, are investing in telehealth platforms that promise instant access to patients, partnering with pharmacies and making access to healthcare easier for patients. Some are active in dozens of countries. Here we talk to the major players about their strategies and how they see the market.
April 6, 2016

Siloam to invest $100m in expansion

Indonesia's largest hospital group PT Siloam International has a two-year plan to expand regionally with 13 new emergency hospitals. We talk to Managing Director Dr. Grace Frelita about the challenges faced by healthcare in the country.
April 5, 2016
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