Albania

 

Interview: Arjan Toor, CEO, Cigna Europe

Cigna now describes itself as “a global health service company” rather than an insurer and has reorganised its European operations. Toor has recently been promoted to CEO Europe. He says that the insurer, which has 15% (US$840m) of its revenue in Europe, doesn't want to verticalise through owning primary care providers but wants instead to provide an end-to-end user experience.
July 21, 2020

Many CEE markets to crash as remittances drop

Private healthcare markets in CEE/Southeast Europe are set to crash this year due to economic contractions at home and abroad, with many countries highly reliant on remittance money from abroad.
May 27, 2020

FREE BLOG New HBI pipeline tool reveals long-held investments 

Nearly a third of all private equity-owned health care businesses in Europe have been held for at least five years, according to the new HBI Deals Pipeline tool. That suggests many private equity houses are struggling to sell on their investments.
October 31, 2019

Diaverum enters second new market of 2019

Soon-to-sell global dialysis provider Diaverum has bought an Albanian dialysis provider from investors and the country's dominant healthcare service group, marking its first entry into the small market. We talk to one of the selling party.
October 18, 2019

Albania’s biggest hospital group corners market

American Hospital of Albania, the country's largest hospital operator, has further consolidated the national market with its acquisition of listed Greek group Hygeia's Tirana hospital for a €1m cash fee and assumption of €29m in liabilities. We talk to the buyer's CEO.
September 28, 2018

Proactivity, political awareness and pro bono – the keys to PPP success in frontier markets

PPP success requires an awareness of the three Ps in frontier markets: Proactivity, political awareness, and pro bono work. That's according to American Hospital, the first healthcare services provider in Albania to introduce public-private partnerships to the country. Healthcare Europa sat in on HBI 2018's roundtable discussion on the subject to find out more.
April 20, 2018

Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.
January 31, 2018

Interview: Dr Rajgopal Thirumalai, Vice President, Global Medical & Occupational Health, Unilever

Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000  employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.
January 29, 2018
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