Global HealthCare Insights Magazine - International coverage of hospitals and health systems

Globalizing the Education of Healthcare Managers

Q&A with Federico Lega and Joseph Restuccia

Healthcare AI Startups Are Ready to Make a Mark Globally

IBM and Google have struggled, but some AI startups are already solving problems.

Q&A: ICME Healthcare’s Rebecca Samuel

Cost control, acquisitions and PPPs are top of mind for GCC investors.

Five Key Trends in Global Healthcare

U.S. organizations looking to international partnerships are likely to run into these challenges.

China Grapples with a Pathologist Shortage

Cancer patients there may have to travel or wait to get a trustworthy diagnosis, if they can get one at all.

Globalizing the Education of Healthcare Managers
Healthcare AI Startups Are Ready to Make a Mark Globally
Q&A: ICME Healthcare’s Rebecca Samuel
Five Key Trends in Global Healthcare
China Grapples with a Pathologist Shortage

Executive Interviews

Q&A: Ricardo Palma Hospital’s Mario Gonzalez

Spain’s Quirónsalud recently took over Peru’s Ricardo Palma Hospital. What makes it a good fit?

Globalizing the Education of Healthcare Managers
Q&A: ICME Healthcare’s Rebecca Samuel
Q&A: Vikram Vuppala, NephroPlus CEO

Hospital Profiles

São Paulo Hospital a Leader in Kidney Transplants

A kidney hospital is shaping the transplantation scene in Latin America and beyond.

A Nigeria Hospital Tackles Mental Illness
Women’s Health Takes Center Stage at Al Khalidi Center in Amman
A Public Hospital Struggles to Lead Ghana Healthcare

Institutional Collaborations

How to Structure a Profitable International Healthcare Deal

U.S. healthcare providers are striking global partnerships. Here are ways to make the deals pay off.

Partnerships Abroad Driving Growth, Innovation for Henry Ford Health System
JCI Accreditation: How Hospitals in the UAE and China Did It
Turning Risk Into Opportunity in International Healthcare Partnerships

Confronting Diabetes in the Middle East

Diabetes in the Middle East is a hidden but costly pandemic; could shifting healthcare funds to promoting self-care help?

China’s Medical Device Market: Big, but Thorny

Tougher, unpredictable regulation and growing local competition challenge foreign manufacturers hoping to get a piece of a booming market.

Building Patient Safety into Vietnam Hospitals

Franco-Vietnamese Hospital is one of a handful of hospitals in Vietnam raising the safety and quality bar for their peers, with help from the government and other partners.

Egypt Drug Prices Climb In Face of Shortages

Confronting Diabetes in the Middle East

How One India State is Becoming a Global Pharmaceutical Giant

Artificial Intelligence, China’s Newest Technology Temptress

Healthcare AI Startups Are Ready to Make a Mark Globally

China Embraces Surgical Robots, Sort of

Need a CT Scan in India? You Might Have to Look Around

China Grapples with a Pathologist Shortage

Q&A: Vikram Vuppala, NephroPlus CEO

India and Zika: Help Wanted

Though India would face enormous challenges in coping with a potential Zika outbreak, creative public-private partnerships could prevent a public health disaster.

China Grapples with a Pathologist Shortage

Q&A: Vikram Vuppala, NephroPlus CEO

Turkey’s Ill-Timed Plunge into Medical Tourism

Ambitious Turkish government efforts to attract patients from other countries has been swamped by political turmoil.

Healthcare AI Startups Are Ready to Make a Mark Globally

Q&A: ICME Healthcare’s Rebecca Samuel

Will Poland’s Push for Better Cancer Care Hit a Wall?

The new government’s healthcare plans could derail promising oncology reforms.

Turkey’s Ill-Timed Plunge into Medical Tourism

Five Key Trends in Global Healthcare

Singapore’s health institutions will soon be required to contribute data to the country’s National Electronic Health Records (NEHR) as a vehicle to improve patient care. NEHR is a shared network between providers that aggregates and combines patient records. While close to all public healthcare institutions contribute patient data, only 3% of private healthcare providers do, creating a significant gap in the national data available. In addition, many general practitioners (GPs) have not gone digital, leading to less than 70 out of 1,6000 GPs who are able to contribute data.

USAID to Begin ‘Transform’ Initiative in Ethiopia

To address preventable maternal and child deaths in Ethiopia, The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has begun a suite of four activities called “Transform,” investing US$181 million into the initiative through 2020. These activities are designed to strengthen the implementation of Ethiopia’s government, improve the country’s health systems and provide integrated family planning services. “Transform” will be launched in Tigray, Amhara, Oromia and Southern Nations Nationalities, and Peoples Regions, helping an estimated 42 million people.

Pakistan Kidney, Liver Hospital Expected to Open Soon

Construction on the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute and Research Center (PKLI) appears to be on pace for a planned opening in late December, according to institute clinical leaders who visited the site recently. With some 300,000 people in Pakistan in urgent need of a liver transplant, and nearly another million that are approaching that need, the PKLI is aiming to become a regional role model for specialty care, and is claimed to be the country's first hospital to be built to Joint Commission International standards. The hospital is set to open with 200 beds, and later phases will see capacity expand to as many as as 1,500 beds.

Research from Low-Income Countries Faces Bias

A new study suggests that Western physicians hold strong biases toward medical research coming from prestigious Western academic institutions compared to that from institutions in low-income countries — and these biases appear to be independent of the actual research. Presented with abstracts of research papers that were identical except for the author identification, physicians in the study rated the relevance of the research and the strength of the evidence as much as 25% more highly when they were led to believe the papers came from Harvard or Freiburg Universities than they did when the papers were labeled as coming from universities in Ethiopia or Malawi.

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