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Australian private hospital sector in crisis: what is happening and how can it be fixed?

The Australian private hospital sector is in crisis, with approximately 80 hospitals closing in the past five years and another 12 discontinuing maternity or mental health services. Many doctors warn that private maternity services might completely close down within the next five years. The growth in private admissions has fallen significantly short of expectations, primarily due to rising healthcare service costs, increasing out-of-pocket expenses, and unaffordable health insurance.
July 26, 2024

What innovations are health tech investors most excited about in 2024?

Healthcare is a sector in which it can be hard to innovate. Regulations are tight and risk aversion is rife. This is understandable — justifiable, even — given lives are at stake. But it means the sector doesn’t see much creative destruction in the models it uses for delivering care. 
July 19, 2024

How healthcare companies are driving innovation with ‘Design Thinking’

Design Thinking is a product design and service development methodology utilised by L.E.K. Consulting and Hi Mum! Said Dad to help healthcare companies immerse themselves in the experiences of end-users, so that they may co-create new solutions to transform patient journeys and operational workflows.
June 7, 2024

Portugal’s hospital market: IPO, reform and intrigue

The growth of PMI makes Portugal an exciting market for hospitals. With the IPO of a major hospital group on the cards, reform looking to change the way public-private partnerships are paid, and political intrigue which rivals Game of Thrones, HBI digs into what’s making the market tick.
September 8, 2023

The fall of Babylon

Telehealth company Babylon will be merged with digital neurotherapy company MindMaze and taken private by its creditors. HBI catches up with two digital health experts to discuss what happened to Babylon and what the sorry saga means for the market.  
July 7, 2023

Orpea-tunity in Italian nursing homes?

As French nursing home operator Orpea considers which countries it might exit, sources are speculating that Italy could be on its hitlist. If that happens, opportunities could open up for middle size players to make their mark. HBI speaks to two market experts to find out more.
June 16, 2023

Eight predictions for for-profit health care in 2023

2022 was a tumultuous year for for-profit health care. The year began with a sense of things returning to a new normal, after the major disruption of the Covid pandemic throughout 2020 and 2021. But then, not even two months in, Russia invaded Ukraine, and this quickly led to an energy and economic crisis throughout Europe. For the first time in decades inflation reached double-digit figures across almost every OECD country and the era of near-zero interest rates came to an abrupt end. The second half of the year saw major worries about a looming recession and a potential debt crisis, rapidly falling investment and M&A deal volumes slowing to almost a standstill.
January 6, 2023

ESG now ‘essential’ for health care companies

Last month we discussed whether ESG has the ability to transform capitalism, or whether it amounts to little more than a corporate PR exercise. Two people who may be able to help us answer this question in relation to health care specifically are Guyon Stams, director in the healthcare sector team, and Joost van Dun, director of sustainable finance, at Dutch multinational bank ING, both of whom focus on supporting health care clients align their ESG strategies with their financing. Stams tells us ESG has become an ‘essential’ consideration for health care companies. 
September 29, 2022
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