Bionexo gathers Ibero-American hospitals leadership at Hospitalar 2008

During the week of June 9 to 13, Bionexo took one more step forward in the integration and international relations of our community.

Managers of leading healthcare institutions from Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Brazil met during the Hospitalar 2008 tradefair  as well as took part in a debate held in our São Paulo office.

The specialists had the chance to analyze the present situation of the health areas in Europe and Latin America, exchange experiences and get to know the management model of Brazilian Health Institutions. On the 9, on the eve of the opening of Hospitalar 2008, Bionexo held a meeting at the company’s headquarters and each representative had the opportunity to present and discuss the challenges faced in the health area by the different countries and the solutions adopted to run the institutions.        
Besides the international delegation, the following Brazilian participants took part in the event: the superintendent of ANAHP (Associação Nacional dos Hospitais Privados), Roberto Cury; the superintendent of the Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein and the vice-president of ANAHP, José Henrique Germann Ferreira; Professor. Dr. José Afonso Matos, of Planisa; o Director of the  Hospital 9 de Julho, Luiz de Luca; the president of Hospital Santa Rosa, José Ricardo Melo, of Hospital Santa Rosa from Cuiabá and Dr. Ivan Lima of Hospital Meridional do Espírito Santo.

“The company made it possible for the healthcare institutions meet during Hospitalar 2008’, commented the president of Bionexo Brasil, Mauricio De Lazzari Barbosa. ‘Knowing more about the cutting edge Brazilian experience speeds up the process for the implantation of the platform in these countries’, said Barbosa. ‘Big and medium-sized hospitals can see the scenario in advance as well as get a feel for how the Bionexo platform works in Brazil’, explains Marcelo Salinas, president of Bionexo Argentina.     
Because of Hospitalar institutions which did not know each other will be able to start partnerships and business transactions.  ADECRA (Asociación de Clínicas, Sanatorios y Hospitales Privados de la República Argentina), for example, brought to the event valuable information about the Argentinean Hospital sector. One of the guests was Gabriel Masfurrol, president of the Spanish group USP Hospitales, which congregates 13 institutions in Spain. Masfurrol commented about the rapid privatization of the healthcare sector in Spain and places Brazil as ‘a trend-setter in the healthcare sector’. Masfurroll also showed how USP Hospitales became the biggest private network of the country in 8 years.

The leaderships participated in a meeting at Bionexo’s headquarters in São Paulo before the tradefair opened and then held discussions and meetings during Hospitalar. Bionexo presented its international purchasing project, through which hospitals in Brazil will be able to purchase online from overseas suppliers. We also presented the successful implantation of the OPMEnexo in the Nove de Julho (SP) and São Rafael (BA) Hospitals.

It has been noticed in the sector that in these countries, mainly in Argentina and Brazil, hospitals go through a similar situation. Most hospitals seek modernization, better administrative and information management, cost reduction, among other things as they deal with challenges.


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