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Israeli POCT brings cancer screening to a mobile phone

Israeli point-of-care testing (POCT) start up MobileODT uses a mobile phone and attachable scope to screen and detect cervical cancer. CEO and Co-founder Ariel Beery claims it had sales of $60,000 since April 2015 and believes it can become a $1bn business.

FREE BLOG Cross-Border Investment Will Transform Global Health Systems

Globalization—whether you like it or not—has been the major force shaping markets for industrial goods for the past century. Until recently, services, including health services, were largely domestic businesses operating in national markets. Today, technology has given us the ability to tap knowledge workers regardless of geographic locations, creating a global market for services writes […]

Warburg Pincus sells stake in Metropolis

Warburg Pincus has sold its 27% stake in Metropolis, the third largest Indian diagnostic lab chain, to the Shah family who run the business. Metropolis is also active in a half a dozen African countries and the UAE.

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.

Interview: Aschkan Abdul-Malek, founder, AlemHealth

Dubai-based AlemHealth is bringing teleradiology and telemedicine to the developing world via a global network of doctors linked up to private primary and secondary facilities in the Middle East. It plans to move into Asia and Africa within the next few months. We spoke to founder Aschkan Abdul-Malek about its business model.

From around the world…

Our weekly summary of healthcare news from around the world. This week we look at India, Malaysia, China, Thailand and the Middle East.

FREE BLOG European or American? Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security

International expansion within the healthcare services sector is happening at speed. The last month has seen Spanish hospital group Hospiten announce its acquisition of five hospitals on the Mexican pacific coast from Amerimed, Ramsay Healthcare announce a joint venture in China and Interhealth Canada get the go-ahead for the first operator-led PPP in Eastern Europe at Zywiec in Poland. But all of this is to look at internationalisation through a Western prism.

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