Chile’s Healthcare Expansion Lurches Forward Veering between government and private spending, Chile, much like Brazil and Colombia, is building its healthcare infrastructure in fits and starts.
Q&A: CallisonRTKL’s Brad Barker Building hospitals in The Middle East and China is big business — if you can get paid and protect intellectual property.
Q&A: Global Healthcare Accreditation, Karen Timmons Global Healthcare Accreditation CEO, and former President and CEO of the Joint Commission International, gives exclusive insight into the challenges involved with measuring and gathering medical travel data.
JCI Accreditation: How Hospitals in the UAE and China Did It The challenges to a top accreditation are significant, but so are the benefits.
Brazil’s Drug Shortages Lead to Calls for Public-Private Partnerships A major shortage of medications is bringing heavy criticism of the national healthcare system. Will it spur more private-sector activity?
Turkey’s Ill-Timed Plunge into Medical Tourism Ambitious Turkish government efforts to attract patients from other countries has been swamped by political turmoil.
Egypt Drug Prices Climb In Face of Shortages With hundreds of medicines in short supply, the Egyptian government OK’s higher prices to spur production.
UnitedHealth Pauses Brazil Acquisition Spree to Strengthen IT After a stunning run of hospital and clinic buys in Brazil, the U.S. insurance giant is putting its now-sprawling house in order.
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.
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?
