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Dutch developer FocusCura’s heart monitoring app attracts payors

For the first time in Europe an insurer has agreed to fully reimburse app-based healthcare service, according to app designer FocusCura. Dutch patients using “hartwacht”, an app monitoring heart and cardiovascular diseases, will be fully reimbursed by insurer Zilveren Kruis. The group has developed a comprehensive platform connecting patients and carers – claiming a 26% drop in emergency admission rates.
June 13, 2016

Aster DM expands hospital and pharmacy networks

UAE-based Aster DM is to open two 100-bed hospitals in the emirates of Sharjah and Dubai over the next three months –as part of $100m investment. Each hospital cost between $40m (AED150m) to $54m (AED200m). The group is also planning to build four other hospitals in the next two years.
June 3, 2016

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
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