Amazon has launched its own telehealth platform, Amazon Clinic, on which patients can connect with health care providers in their area and book appointments.
Ali Parsa, the charismatic healthcare entrepreneur who founded digital health company Babylon Health, has branded the company’s stock market performance an “unbelievable, unmitigated disaster” in an interview with the Financial Times.
As the Portuguese NHS continues to flounder, hospital groups such as Luz Saude and CUF are looking to expand their coverage into untouched regions in the country.
The German government has pledged an €8bn support package to help hospitals and care homes tackle inflation and rising energy costs, and promised to end Germany's flat-rate DRG tariff system, but other parts of the the country's under pressure health care sector - particularly smaller lab groups - are struggling to stay afloat.
Having spent the last 10 years of his life building a multi-million revenue company, Dignio founder Lars Dahle has found the last week since he stepped down as CEO rather quiet. HBI catches up with him in reflective mood, as he chats about how he built the business up, and how he really feels about leaving his company's future in others' hands.
Orpea has four months to clean up its finances and reach a new agreement with its creditors on debt restructuring. The conciliation period which it has agreed with the courts has bought it time to consider its options in the face of rising costs and interest rates, and a cooling real estate market. The main proposal under discussion is a debt/equity swap which would result in a drastic dilution of existing shares, but it is hard to see how the numbers could add up. HBI hears from analysts about the tough decisions facing the group.
HBI chats with Paresh Patel, the new CEO of UK-based OCL Vision and former MD of UK, Czechia and Poland-based ophthalmology platform Optegra, about his new role, and the ophthalmology market in general.
Netherlands-based medicalised homecare specialist Buurtzorg is expanding into nursing homes. HBI catches up with a Dutch healthcare expert to find out more.
The dental market in Ireland may not be the largest in Europe, but it is largely (80% plus) a private market with very little consolidation. So why haven't we seen more consolidation? HBI speaks to a market expert to find out more.
Ahead of the World Cup in November the Qatari authorities have issued a proclamation demanding that some 1.5 million Gulf and other international football fans must have healthcare insurance of at least 50 Qatari riyals (€12). This is a boon to Gulf and other international private medical insurers (PMI) of at least QR75 million (€18m).
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