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Interview: Sudi Narasimhan, Corporate Director of Marketing and Business Development at Bumrungrad Hospital Group

Bumrungrad is a world leader in medical tourism and has effectively leveraged Thailand’s many advantages in this sector. Unlike its competitors, it has focused on high-end tertiary care from a single campus. Narasimhan leads us through the history of the group, the secret to profit margins of 20%, the changing dynamics of medical tourism and the future of the Thai market.
July 3, 2015

IHH and Thai groups to split ASEAN market

Thailand’s large hospital groups look set to dominate the market in the North ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) region according to a number of analysts. But IHH, the giant Malaysian healthcare operator, has a strong position in South ASEAN. Growing integration in the region would benefit both as they tap the thriving medical tourism industry.
June 9, 2015

Report: Elderly care in emerging markets

Across the world, people are living longer. But many emerging economies face a horrible question that is not posed in Europe: will too large a section of the population be old before the country is rich enough to provide for them? Here we look at the very different ways that elderly care is developing in China, India, the UAE and Brazil.
May 29, 2015

Interview: Jaime Cervantes Covarrubias, CEO, Grupo VitalMex, Mexico

Persuading public sector hospitals to outsource the management of surgery sounds unlikely to lead to business success. After all, surgeons are powerful and surgery is a jealously guarded core competency. You might imagine that few public sector hospitals would willingly outsource. Yet Vitalmex has grown sales to $300m with this very business model and is now active in Peru, Colombia and Brazil. Thailand and Turkey could be next.
May 26, 2015

Chinese private hospitals face huge problems

We talk to a seasoned healthcare consultant just back from China on the three reasons why investing in Chinese hospitals may not be the blue-eyed bargain you might expect.
April 27, 2015

Malaysia and the boom of Asian medical tourism

Medical tourism in Asia is booming. This year, 10m medical tourists will be treated on the continent according to the Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC). We take a look at the market and in particular, at Malaysia, which has seen huge growth in the past two decades and now claims to account for a tenth of all tourists.
April 21, 2015

FREE BLOG The drive for universal health coverage

The global push for universal health coverage in the Emerging Markets is gathering pace, driven and stewarded by the World Health Organisation (WHO). In India, revolutionary health insurance systems have already granted access to 37 million of the poorest and most marginalised families. Brazil’s “Expanded right to health”, Mexico’s “Seguro Popular” and Thailand’s Universal Coverage scheme are just three other examples.
April 14, 2015

Report: Indonesia: Land of Opportunity

As Indonesia's Mitra Keluarga’s IPO in March 2015 valued at $1.89bn shows just how much potential there is in private healthcare in this country of 250m with the tenth largest GDP in the world. We take an indepth look at private healthcare in Indonesia.
April 9, 2015
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