Asklepios has effectively taken over Rhoen Klinikum after B Braun with a 25% stake accepted the offer. The deal increases the consolidation in the private hospital sector.
Digital therapy provider Kaia Health has raised $26m in a Series B that includes a celebrity endorsement from the world's highest-ranked golfer, Rory McIlroy.
NMC Health's administrators are making it clear that a wholesale selloff of the UAE's largest healthcare company is not viable. Could any of MENA's largest hospital operators - Mediclinic, VPS, and Aster DM - take over the hospital business? And who will be fighting for the rest? HBI speaks to an investor who knows NMC well to find out more.
For the first time in Germany publicly-insured patients can go straight to an app to have a teleconsultation without paying out of pocket. Small start-up TeleClinic is the first to launch a reimbursable service, which comes as the country's largest statutory insurer launches its own telehealth solution and KRY and Doctolib enter the market. TeleClinic CEO tells HBI it hopes to hit 100,000 consultations this year.
Investment activity in telemedicine booths has picked up over the past month with Babylon leading a Series B of US-based Higi and France-based H4D closing a €15m round. H4D's founder tells HBI that it's a half a billion potential market in France alone.
German hospital operator Rhoen Klinikum, currently the target of a takeover bid by competitor Asklepios, looks set to part ways with its current CEO Stephen Holzinger.
A v-shaped recovery, new markets, new customers, new entrants, new technology and the ear of big government: the HBI 2020 diagnostics panel discussion reveals new opportunities.
Unilabs' teleradiology arm European Telemedicine Clinic (TMC) has launched a specialised oncology offering in the UK where it now has a 20% market share, its country head tells HBI. He adds that COVID-19 has seen NHS radiology departments clear routine imaging reporting lists for the first time in 20 years, although outsourcing is picking up again.
Africa-focused private equity firm Meditterania Capital Partners intends to triple the EBITDA of its recently-formed imaging platform Ray Lab which spans Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia before exiting, preferably by IPO, in a few years' time, partner Daniel Viñas tells HBI. He discusses the specifics of the deal, merging Ray Lab's two businesses, and how its markets are evolving.
Private equity firm UI Gestion's investment in a Parisian radiology practice last year was uniquely structured and shows how to enter the highly fragmented French radiology sector, HBI is told.
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