DocPlanner, the online booking and rating platform rival to Doctolib, has just closed a Series E funding round for €80m, but the company says it has "some way to go" to unicorn status.
Mexico's new president's plans to merge the country's two national health insurers should send more people to the private health sector, according to a local operator.
As with any for-profit sector, entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of health care services, although they keep a particularly low profile in this industry - for obvious reasons.
Grupo Hospiten, a Spain-based hospital group with a presence in South America, has opened a new hospital in Mexico. We speak to the company's corporate medical director about its business, its market and its strategy in the region.
In an effort to help women from low socio-economic backgrounds gain meaningful employment, Salus founded Instituto Salus, a nursing and healthcare college situated in a poor area. To match trained staff with medical services sold by its service providers, Salus has created its own job placement app to help increase efficiency in service delivery.
Investors looking for medium- to long-term projects should look to Latam for opportunities according to a panel of healthcare experts at HBI 2018. A growing middle class across the continent, ageing populations and increasing stability in many countries, mean that it is ripe for investment.
Marco examines the challenges and opportunities facing the homecare market in LATAM in general and Mexico in particular, including the cultural and financial implications in the region and what seems to be working - and what doesn't.
Spanish elderly care giant Ballesol is exporting its business model to Mexico. Healthcare Nova speaks to director of operations Antonio Gonzáles-Quirós about this strategy, and the state of the nascent Mexican elderly care market.
The founder of Dubai-based private equity fund Abraaj, Arif Naqvi, has handed the running of the fund to two chief executives, placing new investments on hold while independent consultants review the company’s corporate governance and controls.
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.
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