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Mehiläinen acquires Regina Maria and MediGroup, signalling growing investor confidence in CEE

Mehiläinen, Finland’s largest for-profit healthcare group, backed by Luxembourg-based CVC Capital Partners, has acquired Romania’s Regina Maria and Serbia’s MediGroup from private equity firm MidEuropa. The deal, which is said to be the largest ever healthcare services transaction in Central Europe, is pending regulatory approval and is expected to close later this year.

Ambea acquires Finnish care group Validia

Scandinavian care provider Ambea has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Finnish care provider Validia Oy from Invalidiliitto, the Finnish Association of People with Physical Disabilities.

Finland wants to overhaul primary care, but may struggle to grasp the nettle

Finland’s government has announced a program to introduce a more standard primary care model in which everyone is registered with a local GP, to improve its struggling primary care system. Details of exactly how this will be implemented have yet to be decided, but it looks likely to involve more outsourcing to for-profit providers. But politics could make bold changes to the system difficult.

Remote patient monitoring can cut chronic disease care costs by 40% — an interview with Lasse Rousi, Medixine 

Over the coming years and decades an increasing amount of care will be delivered to patients in their homes. New devices and wearables that can collect health data from people whilst they’re at home and healthcare’s digitalisation trend are opening up new possibilities, both for prevention and for providing better and more efficient care to those with chronic conditions. 

CapMan Growth leads tender offer for Innofactor

An investment consortium led by leading Nordic private asset expert CapMan Growth has made a public tender offer for all of the shares of Innofactor, a listed Finnish software provider.

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