15-Dec-14 IFC, part of the World Bank, will invest USD255 million to support the expansion of Rede D’Or, the largest network of private hospitals in Brazil. Despite spending almost 10% of GDP on healthcare, Brazil still faces a shortage of capacity and qualified professionals. The private sector provides for about one in four Brazilians currently. [image: Hospitalar]

12-Dec-14 Shenyang-headquartered Chinese IT solutions and service provider Neusoft Corp says it intends to sign an agreement with an investor consortium including Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital and Goldman Sachs, to help the company transform its healthcare businesses. [image: China Money Network]

11-Dec-14 Medtronic will turn over more than USD900 million in China this year, up from only USD50 million ten years ago. Its China strategy is multi-faceted, involving imports, local R&D, patient education and M&A. Despite this success, the advantage Medtronic - along with other foreign device makers - has carved out, is increasingly under pressure from local players, whose ability to innovate and drive costs down via frugal engineering is creating a new standard of excellence. [image: China Business Review]

10-Dec-14 Korea’s National Pension Service is ramping up to focus on investments in overseas healthcare markets in 2015, in the interest of income source diversification. Major Korean corporations such as Samsung have already started investing in hospitals abroad, for example in Turkey. [image: Business Korea]

10-Dec-14 Mergers and acquisitions in China’s healthcare sector rose to a record USD11.3 billion in the first 11 months of 2014, up 13% from a year earlier. A combination of ageing population and increasing affluence is driving the deal-making, coinciding with sweeping reforms by Chinese government. [image: Feucht Blog]

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