In a notable shift in policy, regional Czech governments have started entering into PPPs with local operators to build additional nursing home capacity. Substantial contracts to for-profit operators could follow, according to a CEE-based expert.
The quick rise of health apps has meant processes for approval and reimbursement have largely replicated ones for bringing new drugs to market. That is now starting to change, with many of the new reimbursement schemes recognising a need for real-world evidence over randomised clinical trials and new standards being created specifically for apps.
UK teleradiology provider Medica Group has launched a JV with an Australian radiology group to increase reporting capacity for its out-of-hours Nighthawk services and explore new markets including the Middle East, CEO Stuart Quin tells HBI.
Private equity firm Carlyle will exit German and Swiss acute/psychiatric hospital operator Ameos Group in the second half of this year, a spokesperson for Ameos tells HBI. Reports say that CEO Dr Axel Paeger and London-listed Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) will become controlling shareholders.
Romanian healthcare provider Santa Maria, part of listed group Medlife, has grown its revenue by fivefold since 2016 mostly from patients outsourced to it by the Romanian NHS. HBI speaks to the group's CEO to find out more.
Despite emphatic denials from the company itself that it is for sale, multiple sources continue to tell HBI that DACH psychiatry and acute hospital group Ameos is in discussion with potential suitors and that documentation preparing for refinancing and/or sale has been drawn up. HBI speaks to an operator source, a consultant, and the company to find out more.
The owner of North Macedonia's second-largest private hospital, the Zan Mitrev Clinic, tells HBI he is in discussions with outside investors and a deal could happen 'in the future'.
A quarter of Swedish regions, home to more than a quarter of all Swedes, have signalled that they will stop paying millions of euros to the country's for-profit telehealth suppliers like Kry.
Aedifica has acquired its first asset in Ireland. The Belgian REIT has taken ownership of an operational purpose-built care home in Mallow, County Cork in a deal worth approximately €25m.
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