Viver

What Viver does

Viver - Serviços Médicos is a Brazilian for-profit medical services company founded in 2017 by two board-certified intensivists, Dr. César Meirelles and Dr. Pedro Salomão Dias, headquartered in Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina. The company provides outsourced clinical management services to hospitals, specializing in intensive care unit (ICU) coordination, internal medicine ward management, and emergency department operations. Its service model combines on-site clinical leadership with telemedicine-enabled remote intensivist coverage, encapsulated in the Projeto Viver Sem Fronteiras initiative launched in March 2022 to address Brazil's documented shortage of intensivist specialists (only 11,563 intensivists for 91,325 ICU beds as of July 2022 CNES data). Viver operates under long-term managed services contracts with hospital clients, taking full coordination and technical responsibility for contracted units, including protocol development, multidisciplinary team management, daily intensivist presence, and quality indicator monitoring through the EPIMED Monitor system.

Viver currently serves six hospitals across Santa Catarina (Balneário Camboriú, Brusque, Indaial, and Sombrio), with quality validated by EPIMED Monitor certifications including UTI TOP Performer (2019, 2020, 2022) and UTI Eficiente (2020, 2024) across multiple sites. The company's telemedicine platform enables remote intensivist physician (diarista) coverage, protocol standardization, and continuous quality indicator monitoring, allowing service delivery beyond the immediate geographic base. Additional initiatives include Projeto TRANSFORMAR, a social responsibility program funding university scholarships for ICU nursing technicians. The company is founder-owned with no disclosed external funding or institutional investors and maintains a headcount of 51-100 employees.

Revenue is generated through negotiated B2B managed services contracts with hospital clients; pricing is not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is sales-led, relying on direct B2B engagement with hospital administrators and medical directors, supplemented by referral-driven growth enabled by EPIMED quality certifications and founder LinkedIn presence. Distribution is direct and domestic-only, with each engagement structured as a managed services contract where Viver assumes clinical and technical responsibility at the client hospital facility.

Name

Viver

Legal name

Viver - Serviços Médicos

Website

https://vivermedical.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Viver - Serviços Médicos is a Brazilian medical services company that provides ICU management, clinical medicine ward coordination, and emergency department operations to hospitals across Santa Catarina, complemented by a telemedicine platform for remote intensivist coverage in specialist-scarce regions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospital-based clinical management services

NAICS

Offices of Physicians (62111), General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (6221)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011), Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062)

akta.pro primary industry

Critical Care / ICU Pulmonology (Intensivist Services) (HLAKANAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Virtual Urgent Care & On-Demand Teletriage Services (HLAFADAJ)

Keywords

• ICU management services
• Intensive care coordination
• Hospital medicine management
• Telemedicine intensivist coverage
• Clinical ward management

Headquarters

HQ city

Balneário Camboriú

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Medical Services Management Contracts: Viver provides full coordination and technical responsibility for intensive care units, internal medicine wards, and emergency departments at partner hospitals. Hospitals pay for managed medical services, including intensivist staffing, protocol development, quality monitoring, and multidisciplinary team coordination. Revenue is generated through long-term B2B service contracts with healthcare institutions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Viver - Serviços Médicos provides managed clinical services to partner hospitals, taking on full coordination and technical responsibility for intensive care units (ICUs), internal medicine wards, and emergency departments. Services are delivered on-site and remotely via a proprietary telemedicine platform (Projeto Viver Sem Fronteiras) that supplies daily intensivist (diarista) coverage and multidisciplinary team coordination to hospitals in Santa Catarina, Brazil. The portfolio is anchored by ICU management, clinical ward management, and emergency/urgent care coordination backed by continuous quality indicator monitoring.

Product overview

Viver is a medical services company that operates as a unified suite of hospital-based clinical management services, primarily serving intensive care units (ICUs) and clinical wards across hospitals in Santa Catarina, Brazil. The core offering consists of ICU management and coordination services (Gestão de UTI), augmented by telemedicine and telerounding capabilities that enable remote intensivist physician coverage. Additional services include clinical medicine ward management and emergency/urgent care coordination. The portfolio is anchored by the Projeto Viver Sem Fronteiras initiative, a structured telemedicine program that extends ICU management to underserved hospitals via three pillars: remote daily attending physicians, medical team coordination, and health innovation. Together, these services provide hospitals with intensivist physician staffing, care protocol development, quality monitoring (via EPIMED), and multidisciplinary team management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Projeto Viver Sem Fronteiras: A telemedicine and health innovation project launched in March 2022 to address the shortage of intensivist doctors in Brazil, using three pillars of telemedicine services.
• Projeto TRANSFORMAR

Products and services

• UTI Management Services (Gestão de UTI) Comprehensive intensive care unit (ICU) management and coordination for partner hospitals, including creation of care protocols, continuous indicator collection and analysis (EPIMED Monitor-aligned), multidisciplinary team strengthening, and daily intensivist physician coverage (horizontal care). Delivered on-site and remotely (telerounding) to hospitals in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
• Telemedicine / Telerounding Services Remote intensivist physician services enabling daily ICU coverage at hospitals lacking local specialists. Combines a remote attending physician (médico diarista intensivista à distância) with local coordination and technical responsibility, delivered via Viver's telemedicine platform.
• Clinical Medicine Ward Management (Gestão de Clínica Médica) Coordination and technical management of internal medicine (clinical) hospital wards, including daily multidisciplinary case discussions, clinical evaluations and co-management with surgical teams, and patient flow optimization for emergency departments.
• Emergency and Urgent Care Services Emergency and urgent care services provided to partner hospitals, originally deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic via the CMATC-19 treatment center and subsequently sustained as part of the service portfolio, including planning, organization, and operation of dedicated emergency departments.
• Projeto Viver Sem Fronteiras A structured telemedicine initiative launched in March 2022 using health innovation to solve Brazil's intensivist physician shortage. Built on three pillars (telemedicine, remote physician coverage, and innovation in health), it extends ICU management services to hospitals in underserved regions where intensivist specialists are not locally available, encompassing remote daily attending physicians, medical team coordination, and full technical responsibility for ICU units.

Quantifiable outcome

• UTI TOP Performer certification received by Hospital do Coração ICU in 2019, 2020, and 2022, and by Hospital Municipal Ruth Cardoso ICU in 2022, indicating top-tier performance in ICU outcomes.
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves13 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Hicuity Health: US provider of tele-ICU and acute care telemedicine services to hospitals, the closest functional analogue to Viver's managed ICU and remote intensivist offering.
• Equum Medical: Tele-ICU and acute care telehealth provider delivering remote specialist coverage to hospitals, closely mirroring Viver's ICU management and telemedicine product.
• Eagle Telemedicine: Specialist tele-hospitalist and tele-ICU staffing company serving US hospitals, directly comparable in business model to Viver's remote intensivist coverage service.
• Access TeleCare: US-based leader in specialty telemedicine, including tele-ICU intensivist coverage, directly comparable to Viver's VIVER SEM FRONTEIRAS remote intensivist model.

Broad incumbents

• Hapvida NotreDame Intermédica: Large vertically integrated Brazilian health plan and hospital operator, with substantial ICU infrastructure in the Northeast and Southeast; a potential partner or competitor in managed hospital services.
• Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein: Premium Brazilian hospital system with internal ICU management expertise and a health management postgrad program (one Viver co-founder is an alumnus); a strong incumbent that could vertically integrate ICU services.
• Hospital Sírio-Libanês: High-acuity São Paulo hospital with a Center for Critical Care Medicine and teaching programs; a leading Brazilian ICU operator that competes for top intensivist talent with Viver.
• Teladoc Health: Global telemedicine incumbent with broad virtual care offerings including hospital-based services; a much larger competitor that could expand into Brazil's tele-ICU opportunity.
• Rede D'Or: Largest private hospital network in Brazil, with its own intensivist and ICU operations; represents both a potential partner and a competitive threat to outsourced ICU management providers like Viver.
• Amil (UnitedHealth Group Brazil): Major Brazilian health insurer and provider network backed by UnitedHealth Group, with hospital and ambulatory operations; could enter or partner in outsourced ICU and telemedicine services.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/viverservicosmedicos

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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