Big Data and Public-Private Partnerships in Healthcare and Research

Public-private partnerships for providing healthcare services.

The public-private partnership is an initiative to improve efficiency, effectiveness and equity in the provision of healthcare services. This essay comments on the lessons that should be learned from some examples of such partnerships in various Indian states.

Opportunities and Challenges for Drug Development: Public–Private Partnerships, Adaptive Designs and Big Data

Drug development faces the double challenge of increasing costs and increasing pressure on pricing. To avoid that lack of perceived commercial perspective will leave existing medical needs unmet, pharmaceutical companies and many other stakeholders are discussing ways to improve the efficiency of drug Research and Development. Based on an international symposium organized by the Medical School ...

Finance and Public-Private Partnerships

A PPP bundles investment and service provision of infrastructure into a single long-term contract. A group of private investors finances and manages the construction of the project, then maintains and operates the facilities for a long period of usually 20 to 30 years, and at the end of the contract transfers the assets to the government. During the operation of the project, the private partner...

Spanish healthcare Public Private Partnerships : the ‘ Alzira model ’

Global infrastructure reports suggest that, in the wake of the fiscal crisis, healthcare Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are seen as a growing area as governments switch attention to social welfare projects. Spain is unique in having had a PPP hospital in operation for over a decade which is funded through a capitation fee. This paper takes a critical approach to evaluate the project, with o...

Public-Private Partnerships