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FREE BLOG New HBI pipeline tool reveals long-held investments 

Nearly a third of all private equity-owned health care businesses in Europe have been held for at least five years, according to the new HBI Deals Pipeline tool. That suggests many private equity houses are struggling to sell on their investments.
October 31, 2019

FREE BLOG Can one person change a healthcare system?

This week the market is reacting to the news that Unilabs' CEO Jos Lamers is transitioning away from a full-time role. The managed succession, where senior management will still report to Lamers for long-term strategy purposes, means it will retain a familiar face in a figurehead position. Why is this important? Can one person ever mean so much?
October 18, 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 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 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
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