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FREE BLOG Will AI replace doctors?

This week I attended the AI in Health Summit, an event hosted by Economist Impact at the Royal College of Physicians in London focused on the topic of how AI will impact healthcare. Of all the questions and issues discussed throughout the day, one stood out both in terms of the frequency with which it came up and the strength of feeling it elicited from speakers: whether we should expect to see doctors lose their jobs to AI.

Interview: Ranjan Singh, CEO and Co-founder, HealthHero

HealthHero is the largest telehealth provider in Europe. In the few years since being founded in 2019, it has managed to consistently grow its revenue at over 30% per annum and achieve a dominant position in four key European markets — the UK, France, Germany and Ireland, in a period when many other players trying to scale in this space have gone bust.

FREE BLOG The race for supremacy — UK vs EU Life Science Leadership

As the years roll on, finding positive outcomes after Brexit are rare as hens’ teeth. As both the EU and the UK outline plans to be global leaders in Life Science by 2030, could this be a chance for the UK’s agility to come out trumps?  The UK aims to be Europe’s largest life science […]

Investing in Europe’s healthcare energy transition – interview with Andrey Maramzine, Chief Sustainability Officer, BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions

BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions, a fully owned subsidiary of the BNP Paribas Group, France-based second largest bank in Europe, offers green finance for hospital decarbonisation through sustainability-linked loans, green bonds, and leasing. In 2024, the bank arranged a €1.45 billion sustainability-linked loan for Ramsay Santé. It also invests in nearly 80 ESG-focused healthcare properties. HBI spoke with Maramzine to learn more about the PaaS model and explore the investment opportunities in Europe’s green healthcare infrastructure.

FREE BLOG Ethical practice in private healthcare investment

The healthcare sector has seen consistent global growth over the past decade, positioning itself as an increasingly attractive destination for private capital investment. But while private capital has been flooding into healthcare, it has raised some difficult questions. Can you really put patients first while chasing profits? And does private investment actually improve care, or […]

FREE BLOG Is there a new way forward for cycle tracking apps?

Menstrual cycle tracking apps (CTAs) have a history of selling female health data to third parties for large profits. In the face of increasingly strict regulations around sensitive data, there may be room to improve the current reproductive health data landscape through careful consideration of best practice and compliance with legislation such as GDPR. For […]

FREE BLOG Creon supply chain issues create disruption, yet space for private sector solutions

Creon, a pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT), plays a vital role in the daily lives of people living with chronic pancreatitis, cystic fibrosis, and pancreatic cancer. These patients rely on Creon to digest food properly, absorbing nutrients essential to maintain weight, energy, and quality of life especially when undergoing intensive treatments like chemotherapy. But across […]

FREE BLOG Election season in Poland — what might it mean for the private health sector?

The ongoing elections in Poland, with both candidates competing neck and neck, are expected to have major consequences for the country’s health system — but not necessarily in the way one might expect. Liberal Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, part of Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform, narrowly won the first round on 18 May with […]

Are investors and Academic Medical Centres a perfect match? In conversation with Nexus Gulf Healthcare’s Renan Baroukh

In an increasingly competitive and constrained healthcare landscape, in which local opportunities to grow and seek investment are becoming more difficult, Academic Medical Centres (AMC) are increasingly pursuing international expansion and investment partnerships in emerging healthcare markets.  Renan Baroukh, Chief Finance & Investment Officer at Nexus Gulf Healthcare, a specialised healthcare investment and development platform […]

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