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FREE BLOG Is it wise to shoot the goose laying golden eggs – even if it’s legal?

Not paying your rent is usually a bad thing. It leads to threatening letters from expensive lawyers. Litigation. Dispossession. And costs. So can it ever be a sensible tactic? For care home operators facing “unsustainable” rents, the answer is ‘perhaps, time will tell’.

October 10, 2019

FREE BLOG Why “digital” shouldn’t replace the human touch

Digital enthusiasts are right to be optimistic, but tech solutions are not a panacea. In the Nordics, countries are refining big data and laying the foundations for large-scale preventive healthcare. In France, online companies are tentatively eliminating healthcare silos and in the UK, apps and Skype calls are filling the gap in provision for mental health services. But the hype for digital solutions can lead providers astray.

October 3, 2019

FREE BLOG Europe’s €18bn fragmented private imaging sector ripe for change

What has emerged during our research for HBI Intelligence's imaging report, now live on our site, is how fragmented the sector is compared to other services. It will be utterly revolutionised by regulatory and tariff changes, AI/teleradiology and changing service-supplier dynamics; it's just no one is sure exactly how.

September 27, 2019

FREE BLOG Insurers – the quiet revolution

On the face of it little has changed in health care insurance. An antagonistic game continues to play out between insurers and providers with the former disputing prices and the latter grumbling about tariff cuts. Value health has yet to deliver. Insurers are sceptical of its complexity and providers who seek to demonstrate quality tell us that insurers are not interested in paying extra or even recognising them. Consumers continue to have no clear idea of quality.

September 18, 2019

FREE BLOG Service providers, not big pharma, will be in the driving seat for predictive health care

What you and I and everyone else want is to know how to maximise quality life years, how to stay well as long as possible. And as individuals and as society we are willing to pay a lot for this.

September 12, 2019

FREE BLOG Digital health: The winners are still unclear

Despite big increases in funding for digital health operators it is still far from clear who will be the winners. Many major players still have revenue of €5-8m.

September 5, 2019

FREE BLOG Who might sell this autumn?

Autumn is always an exciting time in the healthcare space. Here are HBI's predictions for which deals might happen...

August 29, 2019

FREE BLOG The moral quandary of NHS Trusts going abroad

This week, we heard that a well-known UK NHS Trust is pulling out of Abu Dhabi, UAE, highlighting that exporting healthcare abroad is not for the faint-hearted. Successful or not, HBI thinks that public healthcare operators embarking on such ventures face a moral quandary.

August 22, 2019

FREE BLOG The bumpy road to cheaper insurance in Brazil

Brazilian health insurance will inevitably get cheaper - it has to. Providers are already feeling the pressure to get their act together and improve service efficiencies, but how will this happen without the entire sector moving toward DRGs?

August 15, 2019

FREE BLOG Can digital health’s new unicorns live up to their valuations?

When a start-up gets valued, it's not so much about what the company is worth today but more about how it is expected to perform over the next few years. High fundraising rounds come with big expectations from investors - will Europe's digital health companies be able to deliver?

August 8, 2019

FREE BLOG For-profit healthcare, a necessary evil in NHS systems?

In a lot of Western European countries, especially where there is a national health service funded by taxation, for-profit healthcare providers are seen at best as a necessary evil by government. Or at least, that is what they would have you believe.

August 1, 2019

FREE BLOG Finnish elderly care: under pressure and underfunded?

Finnish elderly care has been making headlines for the wrong reasons recently. Investors were left unimpressed by Attendo's Q2 results last Friday (July 19) which showed it making a loss. Its share price has almost halved since January. But it is not just Attendo feeling the heat - these are troubling times for other large operators in the Finnish elderly care market. The CEO of Esperi Care, Finland's second wealthiest woman Marja Aarnio-Isohanni, resigned earlier this year after the country's healthcare watchdog temporarily shut down one of its facilities. Why are providers struggling in a market in desperate need of capacity?

July 25, 2019

FREE BLOG Integrated healthcare: what it means for you

Integrated healthcare and population health management are the new buzzwords. So two questions. Are they really happening? And what does this mean for for-profit health care?

July 17, 2019

FREE BLOG PMI and out of pocket boosts for-profit oncology in UK, Romania and India

Rates of growth vary dramatically in the for-profit oncology with mature markets with large outpatient radiotherapy sectors in France and Germany being left standing by growth rates in Emerging Markets such as India according to the latest report from HBI Intelligence. Surprisingly, the UK is also growing at 10%.

July 11, 2019

FREE BLOG Genetic or genomic: Is bigger always better?

There are two types of testing: genetic and genomic. Genome sequencing reads each one of the three billion base pairs crammed into 23 chromosomes and their inter-relationships. Genetic testing doesn't. The two lend themselves to very different markets and produce different results. What does this mean for operators and patients?

July 4, 2019

FREE BLOG Integrated care won’t work without data

Integrating care to better meet patient needs should lead to huge improvements in outcomes. Individual patients can be targeted for prevention and their needs predicted. But this approach, which could also be labelled population health management, calls for sophisticated data sets. The English NHS is trying to implement based on spreadsheets compiled by family doctors. It should learn from Finland and the USA. Internationally, there is a massive skills vacuum that no one is filling.

June 27, 2019

FREE BLOG Is there a market for innovation in emerging markets?

Synlab Nigeria's chief medical officer told crowds at the launch of a new wellness centre in Lagos that previously "only outdated technologies were dumped in Africa". This might be true, but is there a market for expensive innovation?

June 20, 2019

FREE BLOG Five things we learned at HIMSS 2019

HBI attended the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Helsinki this week, alongside hundreds of health tech innovators and policymakers. Here are five things we learned.

June 13, 2019

FREE BLOG Can you ever really rely on a public payor?

“If you build it, they will come”: This appears to be the mantra of some of the firms vying for business from public payors, but is it always a sensible approach?

June 6, 2019

FREE BLOG Public payors are yet to fund digital health in a sustainable way

The only way that digital care can be financially sustainable for both payors and operators is if it can scale. But recent debates in the UK and Sweden show that the public payor - the main mechanism that enables scale - is not yet equipped with the right mechanism to fund it.

May 30, 2019

FREE BLOG Are Western investors out of love with Emerging Markets?

"Health care services is a dirty enough business in Europe without us seeking more risk in Emerging Markets" was how a big private equity investor summed up his sentiment.

May 23, 2019

FREE BLOG The future of dialysis: complexity, cost control, then capitation?

As Diaverum, one of the big five global dialysis operators, gears up for a $1bn-plus sale in 2019, what is the future of the only health care service which is truly internationalised?

May 16, 2019

FREE BLOG Is value health dead?

A decade ago value health was flying high. Launched by Harvard guru Michael Porter in 2006 the idea was enthusiastically espoused by Barak Obama and central to Obamacare. Then along came Trump. Meanwhile, the fiendish complexity of health care has stymied efforts. So where is it now? ICHOM 2019 in Rotterdam with 1,250 delegates was a great place to find out.

May 8, 2019

FREE BLOG Ten more things we learned at HBI 2019

Here are 10 more things that piqued our interest at HBI 2019, where sector stakeholders from payors to investors come together to grapple with the biggest and most interesting issues of the year.

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