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Diaverum pilots patient app

Dialysis operator Diaverum, with clinics in 20 countries and more than 26,000 patients and 2014 sales of €520m, is six months in to a pilot of a new patient app of 100 patients in Australia. We speak to CFO and COO Annette Kumlien who is also speaking at Healthcare Europa 2015 conference.
April 24, 2015

Inbound UK medical tourists bring in over £275m

London’s private and NHS hospitals make sales of around £275m a year from inbound medical tourists – defined as foreigners travelling to London explicitly for treatment. Keith Pollard, managing editor of the International Medical Travel Journal (IMTJ), rounded up its inaugural summit in London last week with some fascinating statistics about the state of medical tourism in the UK.
April 24, 2015

2m customers for cloud-based Patients Know Best

Patients Know Best (PKB), a cloud-based platform that puts patients in control of managing their online medical records, has grown from a 2008 UK start-up to being active in eight countries. It claims to have succeeded where Google, Microsoft and the NHS failed. We speak to founder Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli who claims he will have 2m patients by the end of 2015.
April 23, 2015

UK on brink of care home bed shortage despite private growth

There will be massive unmet demand for nursing home beds in England according to a new report from advisers Healthcare Property Consultants. A perfect storm of an ageing population, low public tariffs and competition for land will lead to big shortages. We spoke to HPC director Nigel Newton Taylor about the report and the state of care homes in England.
April 23, 2015

Finnish election leaves much uncertain

The future shape of Finnish healthcare remains undecided after the latest election result. The incumbent Conservative party failed to secure victory. This opens the way for a coalition led by the Centre Party of businessman Juha Sipila, probably with the anti-private sector Social Democrats.
April 23, 2015

Canadian pension fund sniffing at Synlab

Unsually, one of the potential bidders for Synlab, the BC Partners-owned European lab group, is a Canadian pension fund, say insiders. We name the fund and the other short-listed bidders.
April 23, 2015

Interview: Bruno Marie, CEO, Almaviva Santé

After 20 years in banking, Bruno Marie quit in 2007 to set up Almaviva Santé. The regional chain with seven private hospitals near Marseille is the second largest player in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) and in 2014 bought a 250 bed hospital near Paris. The group has particular specialisations in orthopaedics, ophthalmology, cardiology and gastroenterology. Almaviva is backed by investment company Gimv and UI Gestion and currently manages over 750 beds and 65 operating rooms, employing over 1,000 staff and 600 independent physicians.
April 23, 2015
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