Skin Analytics is a UK company that has developed an AI-based software tool to analyse whether patients with skin lesions have cancer. In a conversation with HBI, the company’s CEO, Neil Daly, explained how AI tools need to be able to make accurate clinical decisions autonomously, without human input, in order to provide an efficiency benefit to the healthcare system.
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Fluorescence-guided surgery tech company UltraGreen.ai goes public
UltraGreen.ai, a Singapore-based company that provides an AI-based software platform to aid with fluorescence-guided surgery, has gone public with an IPO on the Singapore Stock Exchange.
December 11, 2025
Carlye frontrunner to buy out and delist Japanese medical consumables firm Hogy Medical
US private equity firm Carlyle Group is reportedly the frontrunner to buy out and delist Hogy Medical, a Japanese medical consumables manufacturer.
December 11, 2025
Bupa Hong Kong expands coverage to 3,600 hospitals in mainland China
Bupa Hong Kong, the Chinese division of multinational health insurer and provider Bupa, is massively expanding its coverage in mainland China, with a new scheme covering 3,600 hospitals across the country. The company is simultaneously expanding coverage to 3,000 ‘service points’ on the island of Hong Kong.
December 11, 2025
Alcon presses STAAR Surgical shareholders to accept increased takeover offer
Alcon, the world’s largest ophtha device manufacturer, is pressing the shareholders of STAAR Surgical, an ophtha device company focused on implantable lenses, to accept a ‘best and final’ takeover offer of $30.75 per share.
December 10, 2025
Clariane sells 9 Belgian homes to Care Property Invest
Pan-European French listed nursing home group Clariane has sold nine nursing home properties to Belgian real estate investor Care Property Invest. Clariane will continue operating the homes.
December 4, 2025
UnitedHealth sells loss-making Banmedica to Patria at discount to book value
US healthcare conglomerate UnitedHealth has exited Latin America with the sale of its last subsidiary in the region, hospital chain Empresas Banmedica, to Latino private equity firm Patria Investments.
December 4, 2025
Reuben Brothers increases hold on Avery, Welltower divests
Private markets and real estate investment firm Reuben Brothers has increased its hold on UK nursing home group Avery Healthcare, indicating US REIT Welltower has reduced, or perhaps completely sold, its stake.
December 4, 2025
Livingbridge preparing to sell Everlight
Private equity firm Livingbridge is preparing to sell Everlight Radiology, a multinational teleradiology group it has owned since 2021.
December 3, 2025
HBI Deals+Insights briefing December 2025: Intelligence members
Click here to download your December 2025 Deals+Insights briefing. HBI’s December 2025 monthly includes our first ever Top 250 list of the largest for-profit healthcare services groups in EMEA, by revenue, along with multiple infographics showing how the aggregate revenue of these 250 groups breaks down by sub sector, country and ownership type. It also […]
December 1, 2025
HBI Deals+Insights briefing December 2025: Deals+Insights members
Click here to download your December 2025 Deals+Insights briefing. HBI’s December 2025 monthly includes our first ever Top 250 list of the largest for-profit healthcare services groups in EMEA, by revenue, along with multiple infographics showing how the aggregate revenue of these 250 groups breaks down by sub sector, country and ownership type. It also […]
December 1, 2025
Creditors take Colisée off of EQT
Pan-European French nursing home group Colisée has become so overburdened by its debt that its creditors have insisted on taking control from private equity firm EQT, who has owned it since 2020.
