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One in ten of India’s medical tourists are Afghans

Ongoing unrest in Afghanistan is cutting off medical tourism to Indian hospitals, where the cohort makes up 11% of international patients. Indian hospitals have previously done good business treating middle-class Afghans.
August 26, 2021

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

Iqarus completes first overseas deal with Afghan clinic

UK-based occupational health provider Iqarus, which specialises in “demanding and complex operating environments”, has made its first international acquisition in Afghanistan. We speak to CEO Tim Mitchell about its plans in the war-torn state, and whether Donald Trump’s immigration policy could slash the lucrative market in health screenings needed to get US visas.
February 3, 2017

Telefónica brings subscription mobile health services to two million across Latin America

Healthcare Nova can reveal that mobile phone giant Telefónica is rolling out its mobile health services to all its Latin American countries over the next two months. Launched in Brazil in 2012 it now has 2m customers there. It is also about to turn Saluspot, a platform to message doctors and book appointments, into a subscription service. Mobile health services include 24/7 call centres and SMS health tips and advice.
May 27, 2015

Report: Turkish government drives medical tourism

The Turkish government sees medical tourism as a key source of foreign exchange and has put in place measures to support the industry. Revenue from the sector is expected to contribute $20bn per year under the government’s 2023 vision, which marks 100 years since the birth of the Turkish state. Healthcare Europa ask what this means for the industry and who can be expected to benefit.
March 27, 2015

FREE BLOG Teleradiology and the Developing World

It is deeply ironic to learn from telehealth outfit AlemHealth that American radiologists often can not operate across state lines in the USA, but are free to interpret images from Afghanistan, or presumably, anywhere else abroad.
January 27, 2015

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.
January 27, 2015
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