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How to make money in the Czech outpatient market

Czech outpatient specialist EUC Group (formerly Euroclinicum) is consolidating the outpatient market, and has just released preliminary results for 2016 and announced another acquisition. Healthcare Nova catches up with Jan Hůlek, one of the directors, to talk about the group’s business strategy and how to make money and grow in the outpatient market.

IPOs galore in the UK, Sweden and Finland

A wave of IPOs in the Nordics and the UK look likely in healthcare services. Investec is planning to IPO fast-growth British teleradiology group Medica and East European outpatient player Medicover is supposed to be IPOing in the second quarter in Sweden. Meanwhile the two largest Finnish providers look set to IPO in 2017.

FREE BLOG HR: an international market and an international headache

The ability to staff a healthcare provider is perhaps the prime determinant of its success. But recruiting, retaining and training doctors, nurses and support staff has never been harder. Nurses, in particular, are slipping out of health systems like water through a sieve. And their desperate employers are resorting to desperate, perhaps even illegal, measures to staff their wards.

FREE BLOG Apps mean primary care can be consolidated

New ehealth apps mean that the primary care sector in emerging markets can be profitably consolidated for the first time. We look at the potential, talk to advisers, investors and operators look and at what will be delivered in the next six months.

Aetna looks to emerging markets

Giant US healthcare insurer Aetna looks set to put its foot on the accelerator pedal in emerging markets. Dr Sneh Khemka, Senior Vice President of International Population Health Solutions at Aetna International, says Aetna has plans to rollout telehealth services in the coming year – and it seems that it has some large markets in its sights. Dr Sneh Khemka, Senior Vice President of International Population Health Solutions at Aetna International, would neither confirm nor deny that to be the case, but he was happy to talk about Aetna’s plans to rollout telehealth services in the coming year – and it seems that Aetna has some large markets in its sights.

Unmanned care booths – the future of primary care?

Unmanned primary care booths hosting a battery of tests and video links to medics at a nearby hospital are expected to be launched in the USA in July 2017. Enabling hospitals to massively expand their primary care channel to market, the company behind them reckons it can finance much of its growth from forward orders. We look at the new booths, the state of the art tests they will host and the underlying business model. Is this ganja smoke or reality?

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