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KPMG report: Global trends in aged care

In its Global trends in aged care report, KPMG identifies five key themes that are likely to shape the elderly care market - based on interviews with experts in 20 countries.

CapMan sells Esperi Care stake

Finnish firm CapMan Buyout is selling its 76% stake in Finnish care provider Esperi Care to UK-based asset manager ICG. Expects more cooperation with municipalities and more acquisitions –says CEO Marja Aarnio-Isohanni.

GHTs to further marginalise French private hospitals

The French private hospital sector is excluded from the latest plans to consolidate public hospitals through the creation of Groupements Hospitaliers de Territoire (GHT). Is this yet another indicator that the government is marginalising the private sector?

Akademikliniken to consolidate plastic surgery sector in the Nordics

Danish buyout firm Polaris has acquired a majority stake in plastic surgery and aesthetic treatment provider Akademikliniken. Under previous owner private equity house Valedo, Akademikliniken had tripled its hospital and clinic network in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. It now aims to further consolidate in the Nordics – according to CEO Magnus Jansson.

ICHOM Conference #1: The IT barrier to value-based healthcare

Operators that are implementing outcome measures revealed the IT challenges the model presents at measuring quality movement ICHOM’s annual conference last week in London. Costs vary from the tens of thousands to millions for international groups and operators have to choose between buying in software solutions or building their own. ICHOM has also released its own techhub to advertise the mini-industry growing around outcomes measurements.

ICHOM Conference: Long wait for outcomes measurement in low-income countries

With a few exceptions, value-based healthcare in the form dictated by the Institute of Clinical Health Outcome Measures (ICHOM), is limited to the rich world. That is not the vision of ICHOM’s founders, however. They want global measurement and benchmarking– essentially, the wider the search for best practice, the more variation and the more sites of competitive selection. Pharmaccess and the Novartis Foundation, who both spoke at the ICHOM conference, are slowly pushing the envelope.

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