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Denmark tenders €200m lab services for COVID-19

The Danish regions want to spend just over €201m on collection and analysis services for COVID-19 PCR and antigen tests. This is more than 13x what the market's largest players - Unilabs and Synlab - earnt in the market in 2019.

Digital coaching start-up Liva Healthcare raises €24.5m

Digital coaching group Liva Healthcare has raised €24.5m, led by Verlinvest, as it targets expansion into Germany and Benelux states. CEO Andre Sode tells HBI that providers using the tool can better monitor up to five times more patients annually.

Vaccinations in UK care homes rolled out this week

Vaccine teams started working en masse in UK care homes this week, providers tell HBI. The new move is expected to greatly accelerate the vaccination programme - one of the first of its kind in the world - as residents until now have had to leave facilities to be jabbed.

Fresenius Helios buys Eugin, Elsan buys C2S

German and Spanish for-profit hospital operator Fresenius Helios has acquired global IVF operator Eugin from in-administration NMC Health, while French number two hospital group Elsan has bought smaller competitor C2S. What does the deal pricing for both say about relative valuations in the two sectors and any COVID impact? 

HBI 2020: Lessons on reaching the patient

An insurer, an integrated healthcare provider and a telehealth player are three providers with very different experiences of being able to reach the patient. HBI looks at four tangible lessons from Aetna, Medicover and Kry from HBI 2020.

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