Medisystem en Newsweek
La prestigiosa revista Newsweek en su edición de septiembre 2021 hizo un análisis de los sectores más importantes de la economía ecuatoriana. Dentro del sector de la Salud, entrevistó a Juan Sevilla Presidente Ejecutivo de Medisystem Holding S.A. y experto en la materia, para conocer su criterio sobre el manejo y potencial de la economía ecuatoriana.
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MediSystem - Healthcare visionaries transform the sector
Ecuador's burgeoning healthcare industry is set to play an important role in supporting economic diversification and long-term macroeconomic growth, and there is certainly plenty of room to grow. Healthcare expenditure was just over $520 per capita in 2019, while insurance penetration was less than 1% of GDP in the same year. Sharp-eyed innovators like MediSystem are set to capitalize on the huge opportunities this presents. Founded in 1993, MediSystem manages and invests in health-related businesses, and it i transforming the country's health sector with a team comprising top-tier investors with deep experience in the healthcare and insurance industries. Partnerships have been a crucial part of Medisystem's investors' history, and its partners include Sura, the biggest Colombian financial group, Hospital Metropolitano, Inversiones Navarra, and the South African firm Discovery-Vitality, amongst others.
We founded Medisystem Holding, which holds our health sector investments together. We remain the largest company of our kind in Ecuador, and the most profitable in Latin America, which we have done by developing the most important network of outpatient centers that provide medical care through specialists." Its care company, Veris, has expanded its operations from two small centers in Quito and Guayaquil, to 14 centers providing 60,000 consultations per month. It has hired more than 400 specialized doctors, and expanded its service model to become totally digital in dental care and financial coverage.
Juan Sevilla - Director Ejecutivo MediSystem
More significantly, it has opened up its capital base to invite employees and select providers to invest. To date, 260 individuals have done so. To this day, Medisystem maintains a game changing approach to delivering health services, and transparency is of the utmost importance, as is sustainability.
All business lines of the company are certified carbon neutral, and Medisystem has been working with providers to expand these principles across all facets of the business. Sevilla has a global vision for the company, and plans for international expansion are in the works. MediSystem is already making an impact on Ecuadorian healthcare: next up. Sevilla hopes to see it export the model across the region: "We already have foreign investors. Overall, we are used to being partners and we have expertise in the care sector. Everybody who visits us appreciates our passion for quality service, our will to grow and our platform for healthcare service. We are very open, we are planning to go international, and we are particularly interested in partners that will bring new technological innovation,” he concluded.
