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Interview: Klaus Boehncke, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting 

What can you do with AI and big data today and what will be possible within three years? Why has adoption been slower than you might have expected? And what sort of role should health care providers look to play? HBI gets an expert view from digital, technology and business strategy expert Klaus Boehncke, partner at L.E.K. Consulting, who is chairing the Best Practice Workshop: Delivering Digital Excellence: A Framework for Success at HBI 2020 in two weeks.
December 3, 2020

Special report: How rationing care in the pandemic is killing the elderly

People over the age of 80 are up to three times more likely to die of a COVID-19 infection in countries using rigid rationing guidelines that can exclude the elderly from intensive care - and sometimes even from hospital. HBI's extensive analysis of death, hospital and ICU data reveals that Sweden has lost eight times more, England seven and the Netherlands six of its elderly population compared to Germany. In a special report, we explore how rationing killed the elderly.
November 26, 2020

Europe’s largest specialist leukaemia lab on sale for €480m

Munich Leukaemia Laboratory (MLL), a specialist founder-owned lab in Germany, is for sale with a potential €480m price tag. A source says it's one of the "most modern genetics labs" in the world and is likely to sell to one of the large lab groups.
November 5, 2020

Germany’s first reimbursed apps using pharma to sell to doctors

As the first two health apps in Germany can now be prescribed with reimbursement, HBI speaks to their founders about how they will actually get the solutions to patients. Kalmeda and velibra, apps designed to treat tinnitus and anxiety respectively, were the first two to be eligible for reimbursement under Germany’s digital supply law, introduced […]
October 22, 2020

Ramsay Sante’s Capio integration and finances paint a puzzling picture

It's been nearly two years since Australian-owned French hospital group Ramsay Sante completed the acquisition of Nordic-French acute care operator Capio. Contacts give HBI their assessment of how the integration is going and we take a look at Capio's performance since it was acquired. 
October 15, 2020

The San Donato hospital empire: a financial analysis

HBI's analysis of Italy's largest for-profit hospital operator San Donato Group's accounts answers many questions about the group's financial health before COVID. Like: which hospital accounts for 40% of revenues yet drags down profits by 20%? How concentrated is the business in its Milan stronghold and does this differ for profitability? Which subsidiaries are growing and which aren't?
October 1, 2020

Interview: Jan Leister, executive director of digital health, Fresenius Helios

Fresenius Helios has a new incoming digital health executive, who after heading up the Fresenius Group’s German rehab business for the past four years wants to disrupt the way it manages chronic disease by transforming it from a pure hospital operator into a digi-physical healthcare group. Leister tells HBI that he wants to sell its […]
September 10, 2020

France’s regional hospital groups consolidate as multiples increase

France's regional for-profit hospital operators have spent the last 12 months aggressively consolidating the c.65% of the sector not held by Ramsay Sante and Elsan who have been notably quiet on home turf. Vivalto, C2S and Doctegestio have added a collective €500m in sales while the larger pair have done as much selling as buying. Why? HBI talks to a Paris-based M&A advisor, who says deal pricing has improved as shown by the recent Elsan deal.
August 27, 2020

European private healthcare sector’s 2019 growth in one chart

Looking at c.200 of Europe's largest healthcare operators' 2019 revenue figures using the latest data from HBI Intelligence gives a snapshot of the sector. How does the picture differ internationally and by sub-sector based on our recent update?
August 17, 2020

Swiss Medical Network ‘open to new shareholders’ as it seeks HMO model

Conglomerate Aevis Victoria is open to selling a stake in its hospital chain Swiss Medical Network to an insurer to help it move towards an integrated payor-provider model, co-founder and delegate of the board Antoine Hubert tells HBI. We catch up on pre- and post-COVID developments in the Swiss hospital sector.
August 13, 2020
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