What impact will digital health, in all its forms, have on the shape and size of the private health care sector? We talk to Dr. Kaindl, who reckons the winners are likely to be the big for-profit groups.
Austria, a country with a highly complex federalised and socialist health care system, is about to see change under the new centre-right and far-right government. A powerful new health minister has close ties with the private sector.
Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000 employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.
Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000 employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.
Vetruvian-owned medicalised homecare group Healthcare at Home has been turned round. There are straws in the wind that suggest it might soon be for sale. We talk to CEO Natalie Douglas about the company, which is by far the largest provider of medical care around drugs in the home in UK, and is also active across Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
American REIT Medical Properties Trust is entering new European markets, with “no ceiling” on funds and a new office in Luxembourg, the company's director of European operations and acquisitions tells Healthcare Europa.
Europe’s second biggest elderly care chain Orpea is continuing its expansion in Central Europe after announcing two acquisitions. It becomes Czechia's largest operator in elderly care, and further penetrates the Austrian market.
The European Investment Bank is looking to invest €55m towards a hospital Public-Private Partnership (PPP). The investment would go towards the construction and refurbishment of the Wilhelmine Hospital, which is part of the wider 2030 Vienna Hospitals Concept scheme run by the Vienna Hospital Association (KAV).
Pan-European fertility group VivaNeo has bought the two Dr Loimer fertility centres in Austria. VivaNeo, majority owned by Waterland, has expanded its European footprint to eight centres in four countries. With Austria legalising egg cell donation at the start of 2015, Christian Mayer, VivaNeo’s general manager says that Austria will get an increased slice of the fertility tourism cake.
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