Metropolis Healthcare Limited (Metropolis), India’s only multinational chain of diagnostic laboratories, announced that Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm, is making an investment of up to USD 85 million in the company.
US-based private equity firm New Enterprise Associates Inc. (NEA) is betting big on the Indian healthcare story as it eyes investments in specialty hospital chains. Globally, nearly 40% of its total assets under management of $11 billion is invested in healthcare-related sectors and it proposes to attach a similar significance to its play in India.
Fortis Healthcare Ltd has lined up its fund-raising plans as it prepares for a possible takeover battle for Singapore-based Parkway Holdings.
ICICI Venture, India’s largest private equity player, is looking at selling I-Ven Pharma Capital Limited, a Special Purpose Vehicle, to Dr Reddy’s Labs (DRL), its exclusive partner in the SPV.
The International BIO 2010 convention, held recently in Chicago, was a chance to promote French expertise and strengths in the biotechnologies sector. Almost half of all new drugs on the world market have their origins in biotechnologies.
Colombia’s government will rush a tax bill to Congress this week to fill a budget hole that opened up when the Constitutional Court struck down a presidential decree aimed at funding healthcare.
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that a health insurance scheme will be introduced for the central government employees.
India has one of the most privatised healthcare systems in the world.
GE Healthcare has announced an expansion of its financing program for electronic health records systems targeted at healthcare providers who are eligible for medicaid and medicare incentive payments under the federal economic stimulus package, as per reports.
Professor Howard Bolnick, who taught at the Kellogg School of Management for 13 years and is an international authority on Healthcare will be teaching an intensive 5 day utive Development Programme on Healthcare Financing and Health Insurance, Organized by the Insurance Foundation of India (IFI).
Hyderabad-based information technology firm HealthHiway has raised $4 million in funding from Greylock Partners, a Silicon Valley-headquartered venture capital firm.
The leading online source of health insurance for individuals, families and small businesses, eHealth, Inc. announced that its senior management will deliver presentations at the upcoming investor conferences.
eHealthInsurance announced to offer Short-term health insurance products through a specially designed mobile ecommerce platform.
