Thailand is the largest medical tourism market in the world. Healthcare Nova speaks to data specialists GlobalData, which has just released a new report into medical tourism and pharmaceutical sector in Thailand, to find out more.
The Asian healthcare market is desperately in need of good providers but the operating environment remains challenging, according to the panel of experts at HBI 2018.
Thailand's second-largest listed hospital operator reported an 8.8% rise in net profit in 2017, to THB 3,944m (US$126), following a modest increase in patient numbers both home and abroad.
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.
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.
We hear from a healthcare consultant in the US that President Trump's much-publicised tax cuts could cause more Americans to seek cheaper treatment abroad.
We talk to analysts about what 2018 has in store for the Thai private hospital market, which is worth around US$5bn. One thinks M&A will pick up domestically, while another thinks the big story will be groups expanding abroad. As for medical tourism, it's set to rise in volume, but fall in value.
Thailand has 18 publicly traded hospital operators, while the UK and Germany have only three each. And all of Western Europe combined? Barely more than a dozen. We look at why.
Bangkok Chain Hospital, the third-largest Thai hospital operator by market cap, has entered into a joint venture with Pakistani hospital operator Cosmos Health Services to manage hospitals and clinics in Pakistan. We talk to an analyst in Thailand, and Cosmos.
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