Should insurers be payors or players? Should they move from treatment to prevention? How do insurers get better data? These three questions were top of the agenda at the Global Health Insurance Conference in Prague last week.
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Insurees health concerns, by age
At the recent healthcare insurance conference in Prague, HBI heard about insurees' concerns by age demographic - and how insurers were striving to address them.
October 13, 2022
Germany to reduce inpatients by a quarter, as hospitals face insolvency
German health minister Karl Lauterbach is to implement the country's first major health care reform in 20 years. From 2023, hospitals will aim to reduce spiralling costs and remedy the workforce crisis by shifting as much as 25% of their inpatient activity to outpatient and, eventually, closing some clinics and hospitals. HBI chats to German sources to find out more about what this means for for-profit operators.
October 7, 2022
Your October 2022 edition of Deals+Insights
Click here to see your Deals + Insights for October 2022 October sees the CEO of French elderly care giant Orpea targeting the group’s former managers following H1 losses and a string of bad headlines, we ask if the PE tap is being turned off as economic slowdown suggests a possible return to the dark […]
October 1, 2022
Three key takeaways from the Pan-European Procurement Summit
A common refrain at the Pan-European Procurement Summit in Brussels was that price and quality are the two biggest concerns for procurement professionals. HBI heard plenty on price – especially price transparency – but rather than quality, attention turned to the growing concerns of sustainability and digitalisation.
September 30, 2022
FREE BLOG Is private equity becoming uninterested in healthcare services?
As a sector more resilient than most to recession, it’s no surprise that private equity and others are interested in getting involved in healthcare services. It also gives a great opportunity for a diversified portfolio as healthcare provision covers such a wide base - pharma, medtech, life sciences and services. And yet despite the economic environment and the relative safety and benefits, it seems that private equity may not be as interested as they could be.
September 29, 2022
Infographic: The state of private pay in the UK
The UK's Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) has released its private market update for September 2022, showing the state of private pay in the UK. As is expected with NHS backlogs at a record high, private healthcare is performing very well compared to pre-pandemic levels.
September 29, 2022
Interview: Dieter Zocholl, founder and CEO of XMED iQ
Dieter Zocholl is a man on a mission. On the first day of the healthcare procurement conference in Brussels, the founder and CEO of procurement specialist XMED iQ argued passionately for more price transparency in the procurement of healthcare devices. But while the host of the recent Procurement Conference in Brussels poked gentle, good-natured fun at him, Zocholl presented an interesting problem.
September 29, 2022
Is the PE tap being turned off?
Economic uncertainty could well mean a slowdown in M&A from private equity houses. Could we be facing a repeat of the dark days of 2009, and a halving of deal flow, or is there light on the horizon? HBI has been chatting with consultants and advisers over the last couple of weeks to see if there is a consensus.
September 23, 2022
Infographic: Risks of climate change on the supply chain
At the recent Healthcare Procurement Summit in Brussels, multinational conglomerate Philips set out the risks posed to supply chains by climate change - and the steps it felt procurers should take.
September 23, 2022
FREE BLOG Blog: Price and quality top considerations for procurers, but when will sustainability come in?
When procurers look at supplies, they focus overwhelmingly on quality and price. However, many at the recent Healthcare Procurement Summit in Brussels argued that these can’t be the only two benchmarks – sustainability has to come into a much greater focus too.
September 23, 2022
Estonian waiting lists likely to skyrocket in recession
Despite inflation rates of over 20%, Estonia's national health service has not suffered significant ill effects, HBI hears, at least not yet. Looming recession could, however, result in waiting lists as bad as those currently seen in the UK. HBI speaks to a local expert to find out more.
