Ambulance and Air Ambulance Services

 

Falck enters Switzerland

The diversified healthcare provider Falck has taken a majority stake in the ambulance provider, Käch AG, and the patient transport business, MoPi.ch. A price was not disclosed. The acquisitions will form a base to grow in the fragmented market, says acting CEO of Falck’s emergency services, Poul Mortensen.
November 11, 2015

Interview: Terri Bresenham, CEO, GE Sustainable Healthcare Solutions

Terri Bresenham has just been appointed CEO for GE Sustainable Healthcare Solutions, the new division which covers all sales to India, South Asia, Africa and South East Asia. We talk to her about how she sees these markets developing, GE plans to invest $300m and how GE is partnering with the private sector and payors.
October 2, 2015

Interview: Stefan Larsson, Senior Partner, BCG

Worldwide, Stefan Larsson foresees a strong move in healthcare away from fee for service, in which quality is not measured and rewarded, to a system which measures and rewards outcomes. He thinks that model will apply across acute, elderly and chronic care. But how real is the shift? Here we talk to Larsson about examples of operators who have seen significant growth and about how payors are about to shift away from DRGs. He is a Co-founder of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), a not-for-profit devoted to the development of global standards for measurement of health outcomes that matter to patients.
July 8, 2015

Swedish private sector could face restrictive rules as early as 2015

The new minority Social Democrat government has published a radical manifesto, which could eradicate the for-profit sector from the Swedish healthcare, care and education landscape. A commission will report back by March 2016. We look at the manifesto and analyse the likely impact immediately and, also, in 2-3 years time. Prof Anders Anell at Lund University reckons for-profit could face new restrictions in early 2015.
October 14, 2014

Interview: Kustaa Piha, CEO and Founder, Med Group

Kustaa, 35, founded Med Group in 2008 and claims it is now Finland’s largest player in ambulances and homecare. EBITDA came to ¢4.5m on sales of €39m in 2013 and sales should rise 28% to €50m in 2014. He explains the focus behind a company which has everything from ambulances to homecare and from dentistry to primary care, outlines Med Group’s new homecare concept and talks about how reform is likely to open up the Finnish market.
April 15, 2014
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