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FREE BLOG Why lockdown to protect the elderly, then deny them treatment?

This week, an exclusive HBI report has uncovered a troubling statistic: people over the age of 80 were up to three times more likely to die of a COVID-19 infection in countries using rigid rationing guidelines that excluded the elderly from intensive care.

November 26, 2020

FREE BLOG Health care M&A in 2021 – anyone’s guess

These are strange times. Two of the largest players in Europe are likely to IPO before the end of 2020. Meanwhile, advisers expect secondary sales to other funds run by the same PE house to account for up to half all sales.

November 19, 2020

FREE BLOG The State of the Regions: An opportunity to listen, learn and share

Healthcare business opportunities are global. Sadly, as COVID has made all too apparent, risks can be global too. Next week, HBI has arranged an all-star virtual line-up to discuss the state of the regions, a three day event covering everywhere from CEE to China.

November 12, 2020

FREE BLOG Telehealth: The best is yet to come but should platforms be owned by the state?

The use of telehealth peaked with the pandemic and is now tailing off across most of Europe. Most of the medical profession got stuck using 'primitive telehealth' like Skype so didn't see its full productivity potential. Austria has neglected the market providers and started to build its own - and there's a very strong argument for others to follow suit.

November 5, 2020

FREE BLOG Grim pandemic outlook sees homecare business booming

This is an auspicious time for the medicalised homecare sector, albeit for a tragic reason. Providers of drugs, medical equipment such as oxygen, and healthcare services to the patient's home see a COVID-fuelled boost in demand over the next few years.

October 29, 2020

FREE BLOG The challenges of valuing private and listed companies during COVID

How do you value stock-listed and private healthcare service companies during COVID-19?

October 22, 2020

FREE BLOG You cannot have strong healthcare and a bad economy

The solution to Africa's healthcare problems - cruelly highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic - lie not just in improving its healthcare infrastructure, but on improving the continent's financial independence, and weaning it off its outside relationship. You can't easily have strong healthcare and a bad economy.

October 15, 2020

FREE BLOG For-profit university hospitals: trophy assets or businesses?

Running a university hospital was recently described as a 'dream' of one hospital-owning billionaire in Europe. But the available data shows most such ventures in Europe are loss-making. So are they little more than a trophy asset for entrepreneurs - or a worthy attempt to give something back to the community for little to no (financial) reward?

October 8, 2020

FREE BLOG Is private equity finished with Finland?

This week Finland's competition authority has opposed CVC-backed Mehilainen's proposed takeover of Pihlajalinna saying that the group would hold at least a third of the private market. With so much consolidation, coupled with the effective end of SOTE reforms, we're unlikely to see any more private equity deals go down in the sector.

October 1, 2020

FREE BLOG Covid: The good news from Sweden

Is herd immunity a thing? The obvious place to look to answer that is Sweden where the weekly infection rate is more or less flat with 1-2 people dying a day.

September 24, 2020

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