Pro Tip: Learn how to use HBI Alerts to follow your favorite topics

Finland

 

Five super-regions promise radical reform for Finland

The Finnish government, a coalition between the centre right and the social democrats, is proposing that all publicly paid for healthcare and care services should be procured by five new super regions. They would take over purchasing these services from the 320 municipalities who handle elderly and primary care and the 20 hospital regions who run acute care. But will the new regions actually take over the public nursing homes and hospitals or merely procurement of services? The move is seen as a potential bonanza for the private sector. Is this correct? We talk to Prof. Juhani Lehto about the odds on change.

Norlandia buys Dutch kindergarten group

Norlandia, the nursing home, childcare and hospital hotel business, that is majority-owned by Norwegian property developers, the Adolfsen brothers, has made its first acquisition out of the Nordic region, with the purchase of KindeX, the Dutch childcare group. We talk to CEO Hilde-Britt Mellbye.

Ribon sets up new healthcare fund

Denis Ribon,former global head of healthcare at 3i, has set up a new business Archimed to invest in healthcare services, medtech and pharma in Western Europe.

Report: IT is finally giving operators the edge

It has been a tough five years for private healthcare in Europe. but what was noticeable at Healthcare Europa, the only annual conference for the sector, was the spring in the step of the CEOs of large operators such as BMI, Terveystalo and Euromedic. New web and big data applications are finally proving that they can grow patient numbers by 10% or more, demonstrate and measure quality and improve efficiency. The three things which stood out from this event were, firstly, clear signs that new IT is impacting the sector, secondly, the growing confidence of management teams in private companies that they can deploy this to good effect, and thirdly, a sense that the public sector was often completely incapable of rolling out similar solutions.

Services that Build Life Long Loyalty from New Customers: Presentation, Yrjo Narhinen, CEO, Terveystalo

Terveystalo with 18 hospitals and 150 outlets is the largest private healthcare operator in Finland. Yrjo, who joined as CEO in 2010, has an FMCG background (Procter & Gamble) and has doubled profits in four years through culture change and powerful new IT. He looks at how Terveystalo is building new services, based on sophisticated patient record systems, aimed at creating life-long loyalty from groups as varied as families, the elderly and the active fit. How does the web fit in to this? Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2014, The Return of the Bull Market.

Korona claims the best

Specialising purely in investing in health care services has paid off for Finnish fund Korona Invest.

Find Us