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Video consultations in the UK fell during COVID-19

For all the talk of COVID-19 pushing ahead the digitalisation of healthcare, the use of video consultations in both actual numbers and as a percentage of consultations in primary care fell during the pandemic's peak. Recent headlines talk about 48% of primary care being delivered digitally, but most of these were telephone calls.
July 30, 2020

Benelux countries make moves on digital therapy reimbursement

The Netherlands and Belgium are closely following behind Germany in reimbursing digital therapeutics (DTx). Payors in the former are negotiating a strategy while the latter has just seen a rehabilitation app become the first to receive public payment. Belgium is one step ahead of the Netherlands in that a Ghent-founded DTx solution, called moveUP, has […]
July 30, 2020

FREE BLOG COVID reshapes the sector

Here are three recent quotes which would have been unbelievable in January. "We realise now that we can manage with half the 140 consulting rooms we had planned" Henrik Schødts, deputy CEO, Nordsjællands Hospital.  "We have seen telehealth rise 500%" Arjan Toor, CEO, Cigna Europe.  "We are doing 80% of our emergency consultations by telehealth," Dr Peter Thomas, director of digital innovation and consultant paediatric ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. 
July 30, 2020

FREE BLOG Is M&A back in business?

COVID has clearly had a chilling impact on healthcare services M&A over the last few months. Some deals have fallen through. Some M&A-focused teams have seen their numbers paired. Some deals are simply on hold. As we emerge from lockdown, however, HBI hears there are positive signs of returning to business as normal.
July 23, 2020

West Europe’s for-profit hospitals ramp up as financial protections phased out

For-profit hospitals across West Europe are ramping up activity as governmental financial protections are slowly phased out, but it’s taking much longer than in outpatient facilities and varies wildly from country to country. Why? HBI looks at the situation in Germany, France, Switzerland, the UK and Ireland. From July 1, German hospitals are no longer […]
July 16, 2020
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