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Norway plans national high-throughput genome sequencing platform

Norway is quietly doing something unusual with genetics. A bunch of academics and medical boffins are trying to figure out how to build a high-throughput genome sequencing (HTS) platform that serves the entire national population. The project is called the Norwegian Genetic Analysis Platform (NGAP), and is under development co-operatively by Oslo University and Oslo University Hospital. What are the implications of this for healthcare systems?
October 18, 2013

Croat Masterplan spells opportunity

Croatia is restructuring public healthcare following its entry into the EU. The private healthcare sector, which has been hammered over the past three years, stands to gain as insurers pile in to a new market for supplementary insurance - 18 insurers have signed up to launch products so far in 2013. We talk to Ivan Svajger, CEO of public general hospital Zabok, and Branimir Curic, Chief Medical Officer at private specialist clinic Akromion, to find out more.
October 18, 2013

Medivision for sale

Medivision - with 685 employees, probably the largest outpatient chain in Germany - has sought protection from its creditors after its majority-owner was imprisoned for fraud. The business, which claimed sales of over €80m in 2010, is now for sale.
October 18, 2013

Hip and knee replacements down in Germany

Despite the huge rise in the elderly and the obese, volumes in hip and knee replacement surgery have dropped off steeply in Germany. So says Bradley Gould, CEO of Prospitalia, the big procurement hub backed by Palamon Capital Partners. An investment analyst agrees, while a recent OECD report, to the contrary, highlights just how much Germans love going under the knife.
October 16, 2013

Interview: Pawel Maj, Management Board Member, Skyline Ventures S.A.

Polish venture capital fund Skyline Ventures' primary healthcare investment is in care home and homecare company House Domowa Opieka. With private players struggling to break into the Polish homecare market, we interview one of the players behind a rare successful investment on the scene. The company has around 1,000 employees, with six offices in Poland and one in Germany. Sales have increased five-fold from 2012, with the company breaking even this year.
October 14, 2013

FREE BLOG How should the state deal with medical corruption?

Paying doctors more money is one way to end unofficial payments to doctors in Eastern European countries. This approach has worked well, for instance, in Slovenia and the Czech Republic. But then, you have to have the extra money in the first place.
October 14, 2013

French biologistes’ market faces big change

The French lab space is in for some big changes. Still, it should be possible to continue to turn a profit, contradictory to a recent report from the Cour des Comptes. Keen observers offer real insight as to what is happening at ground level.
October 14, 2013

New boss for Unilabs

Jos Lamers, former CEO of Nucletron, has replaced Jean-Paul Rigaudeau as CEO of Unilabs, the international lab and imaging chain. Lamers nearly took the same position at imaging group Euromedic a year ago.
October 14, 2013

Czech nursing home bonanza

The Czech Republic has a fast-developing formal long-term care market, one that is throwing up plenty of opportunities for the private sector. We talk to the largest operators about the gold rush in the care home market and Senecura’s debut in the country. On the downside, the odds of victory for the Social Democrats in October’s election seems strong - how will this affect the market?
October 11, 2013
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