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Interview: Andreas Poensgen, Turgot Ventures

From online prevention programmes for the masses (HausMed) through to nurse-led programmes that can halve hospitalisation rates (IVPNetworks), Turgo Ventures has recently made big investments in telehealth. Andreas Poensgen, who describes himself as an advanced angel investor, is a former Boston Consulting Group consultant who has been looking at telehealth concepts since the late 1980s.
October 30, 2012

RESAH plans pan-European buying for public sector

Réseau des acheteurs hospitaliers d’Ile de France (RESAH), the public-sector procurement organisation for the Paris region, is starting to research price differences across Europe with its counterparts. Carole Escurat, who is in charge of international cooperation, says that RESAH also plans to eventually join forces with regions outside France to buy medtech products.
October 30, 2012

Statutory insurer and medical profession back new web-based health programmes

Online programmes for seven conditions have been launched in Germany by HausMed, which is part-owned by the German General Practitioners' Association. Insurer AOK Baden Wuerttemberg, with nearly four million enrolees, is now paying for depression and hypertension programmes. Healthcare Europa believes that this is the first serious attempt at a mass launch of web-based programmes with the support of the medical profession and a statutory payor in Europe.
October 30, 2012

Spinning Circle poses questions

Where is Circle Holdings, the pioneering UK hospital group, heading? A new note from analyst Seb Jantet of Investec, borrowing its headline from a lyric from rock group Dead or Alive - ‘You spin me right round, baby right round’ - asks many awkward questions about Circle’s future.
October 26, 2012

European Commission to investigate corruption in healthcare systems

In November 2012, the European Commission will launch an investigation into corruption in European healthcare systems. Anne Pierson, spokesperson for the European Healthcare Fraud & Corruption Network, explained that her organisation has submitted a bid in the tender for the project, which went out in August and will announce the final research team in a few weeks.
October 23, 2012

FREE BLOG Shining a light on pricing

Few industries are as systemically inefficient as healthcare. So the news that people are finally comparing prices charged by medtech companies across different European countries is very welcome indeed, as is the news that the European Commission is about to start an investigation into fraud and mispricing within healthcare services.
October 23, 2012

LoV isn’t all you need

Plans by the Swedish government to increase the adoption of freedom-of-choice (LoV) laws by municipalities may be in vain, according to a study by academic Axel Cronert. Little to no growth can be expected in 2013.
October 19, 2012

What is going on in Lazio?

We talk to Luigi Amadio, director of non-profit research-led hospital Fondazione Santa Lucia. His is just one of the many providers - private and public - that are owed hundreds of millions of Euros by the Lazio regional health system.
October 19, 2012

Interview: Dr Andrzej Sokolowski, director, Polish Association of Private Hospitals

In Poland, public hospitals that have been ‘part-privatised’ into social enterprises pose a serious threat to the for-profit sector. Dr. Andrzej Sokolowski, director of the Polish Association of Private Hospitals, says that the private sector is hanging its hopes on a long-promised law on private medical insurance (PMI).
October 19, 2012

Big players win as times get tougher

After years of poor results, has the German care home market finally found stable footing? Listed operator Curanum’s third-quarter results show a remarkable turnaround for the company. This comes on the heels of a similarly impressive comeback for Marseille Kliniken.
October 19, 2012
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