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Report: Telehealth faces another decade of no progress in Europe

Trends in healthcare and technology are driving the adoption of telehealth across Europe, but many barriers remain. For telehealth to be rolled out on a mass scale, stakeholders need to reassess traditional healthcare models. For this to happen, there needs to be systemic change to healthcare models as we know them. As Imran Hamid, from […]
October 7, 2014

Eurocept buys Medizorg and tries to re-invent homecare

Eurocept, the Dutch pharmaceutical and home care company backed by private equity house GIMV, is to buy medicalised homecare group Medizorg to create a group with sales of €300m with Benelux and Pan-Nordic ambitions. We talk to Eurocept CEO, Mike van Woensel about homecare business models.
September 30, 2014

FREE BLOG More proof that healthcare services is becoming international

If the trans-continental race to buy Espirito Santo Saude, with bidders from China, Mexico, USA and Portugal, isn't proof enough of the increasing internationalisation of the market for healthcare services take a look at the bidders for to build and operate the big Slovak PPP.
September 30, 2014

Acibadem to buy Medicana?

Bloomberg reports that Acibadem, the big hospital chain owned by IHH, is close to buying rival Medicana according to four sources.
September 29, 2014

World goes mad for Espirito Santo Saúde

Portugal’s second largest hospital chain has received multiple bids from companies based in China (Fosun), Mexico (Angeles), the USA (UnitedHealth) and Portugal (Jose de Mello) since an auction frenzy developed ten days ago. Sometimes, bidders have upped the stakes several times in a week. As of September 29, Chinese conglomerate Fosun, bidding through Filedad, Portugal’s largest insurer, was top dog, having offered €4.82 for ESS, valuing the chain at €460.5m. What is going on?
September 29, 2014

Interview: Jill Schwieters, EVP, Cielo, President Cielo Healthcare

People remain the main cost and the main asset for almost all healthcare service companies. Yet most operators could manage recruitment, training and retention better. Cielo Healthcare is the largest healthcare recruitment process outsourcer in the world and is active in Europe, Middle East, as well as North America. Schwieters has developed the business since its inception nine years ago. Before that, she was Chief HR Executive for the Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, an integrated healthcare system in the Midwest with nearly25,000 employees. Cielo is backed by AKKR, a fund raised by KKR to invest in service and technology companies.
September 29, 2014

Remo Schneider plans chain of incontinence studios

Remo Schneider, after having sold Senecura’s Swiss assisted living chain Senevita to Orpea, has left to set up a new venture. Schneider set up and ran the Senecura, the Austrian/Czech care home group, with Rudolf Oehlinger. Schneider has the rights to distribute a chair that will cure women of incontinence and men of erectile dysfunction […]
September 29, 2014

Stimulus plans European roll out

French occupational and pyschological wellbeing healthcare outfit Stimulus has plans to expand across Europe, following a management buy out backed by Turenne Sante, a specialist fund investing in the French healthcare services sector. We talk to Stimulus CEO David Mahe about his plans.
September 26, 2014

Ramsay UK boss Jill Watts moves to BMI

Jill Watts, the current CEO of Ramsay UK is to replace Stephen Collier as chief executive of BMI, the largest, but not very profitable, UK private hosptial chain. We talk to analysts about what watts brings.
September 26, 2014

Median buys two acute hospitals

In a puzzling move, Advent International-owned Median, Germany’s largest reha chain has bought Atos, which has two acute hospitals in Bavaria, a state where Median currently has no presence at all.
September 25, 2014
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