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Manzil plans 2020 expansion in Middle East and South East Asia

UAE-based medicalised homecare provider Manzil plans further expansion this year in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Singapore - its South East Asian (SEA) springboard from which it hopes to gain a presence in the wider region. We interview CEO Dr Sarper Tanli on business strategy.
January 8, 2020

Interview: Erik Koornneef, head of AI at Cognit

Healthcare Nova speaks to Erik Koornneef, UAE-Based head of Watson Health at Cognit Technology Solutions, an AI solutions provider established as JV between Mubadala and IBM Watson with the aim to enable the adoption of artificial intelligence in the MENA region.
July 3, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: New clinical governance and quality framework cuts readmissions and medical errors

New Mowasat Hospital in Kuwait has created a Clinical Governance and Quality Framework to integrate all processes and activities which impact patient care into one strategy. Only in place since March 2017, it has already achieved improved outcomes in multiple areas. Select improvements include reducing unplanned admission after day surgery from 4% to beneath 2%. It has also successfully reduced medication errors in its pharmacy from 1.2 to less than 0.75%. A family-run, 100 bed hospital in Kuwait, the hospital had 2017 revenue of $75m.
June 26, 2018

New private hospital planned in Kuwait

We hear that a Qatari investment group is planning a new hospital in Kuwait. But a local contact questions the logic of adding capacity to a stagnant and oversaturated market.
May 30, 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 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

Kuwait – the quiet niche

Kuwait gives its 3.7m ex-pats the healthcare equivalent of the deal of the century. But for how much longer?
April 21, 2017

TMC eyes up Saudi Arabia

We caught up with Filipino hospital operator The Medical City and its plans for the GCC to meet the needs of the millions strong filipino diaspora. It also plans to target low paid workers from other countries.
February 9, 2017
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