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Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.
January 31, 2018

Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.
January 29, 2018

The lucrative, luxurious post-birth care business in China

Professional postpartum care - luxury live-in care for both mother and child in the month following childbirth - has evolved into a lucrative business in China in less than a decade. Healthcare Nova speaks to John Yue Zhao, founder and CEO of the Xi Yue Ge care centre to find out more.
December 18, 2017

FREE BLOG The four things we learnt at this year’s Global Health Insurance Conference

There's a crisis in healthcare insurance in which traditional players face being squeezed out by large tech-savvy players entering the market and cozying up to providers. But there are also opportunities for insurers willing to embrace change quickly. Healthcare Nova was at the 9th Global Health Insurance Conference in Amsterdam at the end of last month talking to delegates to find out more. These are the four key things we took away.
October 18, 2017

Interview: William Stoddart, CEO, Werlabs

Werlabs is a Swedish start-up bringing lab tests to the general public. The group is growing fast from a small base, and is now expanding beyond the Nordics. Its CEO, William Stoddart, believes it can save the health system money and consumers will buy it. Healthcare Europa asks him how.
July 4, 2017

Croatian clinics cluster to drive sales

Small clinics and hospitals in the Kvarner region of Croatia have created a medical tourism cluster to share the costs of marketing and sales generation. Has it worked? Healthcare Europa went to the International Medical Travel Summit to find out more.
May 22, 2017

Montenegro government looks to privatise healthcare centre

The Montenegro government is looking to privatise healthcare centre Simo Milosevic, a boutique spa and rehabilitation facility in in the municipality of Herceg Novi. The media in Montenegro is reporting that investors from UAE, China, Norway and Israel are interested in the planned sale of the centre, which is 56% state owned, and also known as Institute Igalo.
February 23, 2017

Interview: Jaakko Olkkonen, Wellmo: The future of insurance – Preventative health services and wearables

Savvy insurers - big players like Generali, Germany's second largest primary insurance group, and Vitality in the UK, are moving into preventative health services – suggesting there's money to be saved here. Experts seem to agree within five years, wearable devices feeding information back to health insurance companies may become the norm rather than the exception – and insurers who don't change they way they operate could soon be left behind. One such expert is Jaakko Olkkonen, managing director of Finland-based mobile platform software company Wellmo. Olkkonen admits he has a vested interest in promoting wearable devices and apps which record key health information – like user activity, sleep patterns and heart rate – and feeding it back to insurers. He runs a digital platform designed to facilitate it, after all. But he says his predictions are accurate nonetheless.
December 6, 2016

BDMS targets tourists with Phuket brain health centre – and plans wellness network

Thai hospital giant, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS), has opened a brain health centre in the southern tourist hub of Phuket. It aims to attract medical tourists as well as combatting the growth of cognitive impairments resulting from the region's ageing population. We spoke to the CEO of the institute Kongkiat Kespechara.
November 30, 2016
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