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The power of IT

It is startling to learn that by using middleware that can read doctors’ narratives, a single UK NHS Trust claims that it has put together a database of patient records for anti-dementia drugs that is 12 times larger than the entire worldwide Cochrane data. It is also startling to learn that even patients with mental disorders had an 86% adherence to using wearable devices such as Fitbit.
March 11, 2016

Filippino investor MPIC puts US$64m into hospitals

A week after announcing a 30% growth in revenues to US$29m for its hospital division, MPIC is setting aside US$64m to buy several hospitals in the Manila region. The group expects to buy two 200-bed hospitals this year and is in talks with three others.
March 11, 2016

Aedifica buys Dutch care homes

The Belgian REIT, Aedifica, has paid Dutch nursing home operator, Domus Magnus, €30m for four nursing homes. Aedifica’s first acquisition in Holland was driven by strong yields and the potential to fund the growth of a market consolidator. We investigate.
March 11, 2016

Humana to IPO at up to €355m

Swedish care provider Humana is to IPO on March 22 in a listing which will value it at up to SEK3.3bn. The listing follows IPOs from Capio and Attendo in Sweden and from Pihlajalinna in Finland in 2015.
March 11, 2016

Spain’s elderly care sell off

Amma, Spain's fifth largest group is for sale. Meanwhile, French pan-European group Orpea and Spain's largest group SARquavitae are bidding for the sixth largest, Sanyres. Analysts expect 10x EBITDA multiples after Geriatros' sale in 2015 to PAI. Smaller care operations like La Saleta and Vitalia are also on the block. Sources close to SAR are denying that it, too, is for sale.
March 10, 2016

Getting computers to read medical records

Extracting meaningful data from clinician records is not easy – all too often they are a jumble of idiosyncratic narratives. But a £10m project has managed to do just that. Researchers at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and Kings College London have analysed 270,000 cases in mental health, creating what Prof Matthew Hotopf, director of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) at the Maudsley, claims is the world’s largest clinical dataset for mental illness. The Maudsley team are now looking for industry partners.
March 10, 2016

FREE BLOG The importance of diasporas

Anyone looking at healthcare services in Emerging Markets would be well advised to take diasporas into account. And in fact they do.
March 10, 2016

French ophthalmology groups fight back against insurers

Medic’oeil, an ophthalmology chain based in Eastern France, is trying to create a national network of eye doctors. Owned by the Helvetian Eye Centre, Medic’oeil aims to develop 87 centres in six years. We speak to Arnaud Mathaly, president of Helvetian Eye Centre, about the model. But consolidating outpatient in France is tough. Figaro reports that Dentexia, a low costdental chain, may be about to go bust.
March 10, 2016

AMP Capital joins race for Mater Private

Infrastructure funds continue to be drawn to private healthcare services. AMP Capital a big Australian fund with over $100bn under management is in the running for Irish hospital group Mater Private.
March 7, 2016
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