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Reachable Buyer Map

Prepared for Emilio Machado · Emmitec · August 2026
Emmitec points one platform at three buyers who do not share a budget: the hospital, the clinic or care provider, and the plan operator who carries the cost of a readmission. They each hear a different sentence. This map is who signs inside each group, roughly how many sit behind it in Brazil, and where the reach gap in this market usually sits widest. It describes the market rather than your business, and there is nothing to buy at the end of it.
Health plan operators
The buyer with the clearest arithmetic on this page, because an avoided admission lands on their own books in the same quarter. Longest procurement path here, and the largest commitments.
Who signs: medical director, director of care management, VP of operations, innovation lead, and the actuarial or risk owner.
600 to 800
registered health plan operators in Brazil; the medical and hospital operators inside that group are the ones carrying admission cost
Private hospitals
Discharge capacity and readmission are the two numbers that move a decision here. Buying stays fragmented by site even where ownership is not, so the reachable seat is often local rather than corporate.
Who signs: clinical director, hospital superintendent, head of nursing, IT or innovation director, quality manager.
4,000 to 4,500
private hospital establishments in Brazil; establishments rather than owners, so a group with several sites appears more than once
Hospital groups and networks
The layer that buys once for many sites. Small by count, decisive by weight, and the only segment where one relationship changes the size of the contract by an order of magnitude.
Who signs: group CEO, chief medical officer, group CIO, head of digital health.
Roughly 60 to 100 groups of scale
the multi site owner layer; not listed cleanly in any public register, so it is identified one at a time
Home care and hospital at home providers
The segment where remote monitoring is not an addition to a workflow, it is the workflow. Smaller commitments, faster decisions, and the place reference stories come from first.
Who signs: owner or CEO, clinical coordinator, operations director, nursing manager.
250 to 400
specialist home care companies operating in Brazil; a wide band on purpose, because the category has no single register
Employers running their own health plans
Small by count and unusually direct, because the payer and the employer are the same organization and there is no third party to convince. Decisions are made by people who already track absence and claims monthly.
Who signs: HR director, occupational health lead, benefits manager, and the CFO on larger schemes.
Roughly 100 to 200
self managed employer health plans; described rather than counted, and reached by name
Public health system buyers
The largest buyer in the country and the slowest. Publicly tendered, politically timed, and worth mapping so that working it becomes a deliberate choice rather than something that happens by accident.
Who signs: municipal or state health secretary, primary care coordinator, procurement lead.
Roughly 5,500 to 5,600 municipalities
each with its own health secretariat; tender driven, and reached by name rather than by list

Where the openings are

1
Three buyers, one message. The operator buys avoided cost. The hospital buys discharge capacity. The home care provider buys the workflow itself. A single channel almost always carries one of those three sentences, and it is usually the one the founder finds easiest to say.
2
Home care is the underworked segment. Too small to interest enterprise vendors, large enough to matter, and the only group on this page where the buyer, the user and the payer sit inside the same organization. That is the shortest path from a first conversation to a live deployment.
3
Plan operators move on a calendar, not on persuasion. Budget and contract cycles are annual and knowable. Being present three months before the cycle opens beats being persuasive in the middle of it. That is a scheduling problem, and scheduling is mechanical work that a channel can do while you are doing something else.
Built from public market data on the Brazilian health system, counts banded deliberately. Hospital figures count establishments rather than owners, so a group with several sites is counted more than once. Groups, employer run plans and public buyers are described rather than counted, because no public source lists them in a form anyone could work from.
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