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Elderly care post-Covid: HBI Big Picture Seminar

How has Covid affected the elderly care sector across EMEA? To find out, HBI-365, the new global digital platform, brought together a panel of three: Fredrik Gren, CEO and president, Ambea, a sophisticated and large Pan-Scandinavian care group, Alexei Sidnev, CEO, Senior Group, the largest player in a big emerging market, Russia and Pierre-Emanuel Bercegeay, CEO, Ouihelp, a VC-backed, digital-savvy domiciliary homecare start-up in France. The seminar was followed by the first meeting of our HBI-365 elderly community with a useful roundtable on workforce.

Telemedicine booth provider raises €15m

Investment activity in telemedicine booths has picked up over the past month with Babylon leading a Series B of US-based Higi and France-based H4D closing a €15m round. H4D's founder tells HBI that it's a half a billion potential market in France alone.

Labs bounce back and eye opportunities

A v-shaped recovery, new markets, new customers, new entrants, new technology and the ear of big government: the HBI 2020 diagnostics panel discussion reveals new opportunities.

French radiology investment shows route into market

Private equity firm UI Gestion's investment in a Parisian radiology practice last year was uniquely structured and shows how to enter the highly fragmented French radiology sector, HBI is told.

Interview: Mario Paterlini, CEO, Sapio Group

We talk to the CEO of pan-European industrial and health gases and homecare operator Sapio Group. It aims to grow healthcare from 50% now, to 65% of its revenue by 2022, and has been buying homecare companies across the continent to that end. 

European dentistry reopens

European dental markets are reopening for business as R numbers drop below 1 across the continent. HBI reviews what the current position is in these key markets and talks to operators in these markets to assess demand.

PATRIZIA deal suggests healthcare real estate remains resilient, despite COVID

Global real-estate investor PATRIZIA AG has acquired a portfolio of seven healthcare assets in Germany specialising in assisted living and specialist care in a sale & leaseback deal. Is this a good time to be investing in this sector in the light of the coronavirus pandemic? How is it affecting prices? HBI looks further at the deal and speaks to a consultant to find out more.

Authorities order B2C retailers to halt antibody test sales

Regulatory body Public Health England (PHE) has ordered telehealth player Babylon to stop selling B2C antibody tests until it has established their accuracy. Supplier Abbott has already said that the test is not suitable for home sample collection but players are still scrambling to sell in what's likely to be a multi-billion market.

M&A frenzy in French medicalised homecare sector

Italian industrial and medical gas group Sapio has entered France's medicalised homecare sector with the acquisition of one of the ten largest for-profit providers. It is the latest in a string of transactions in the space including by some left-field buyers. 

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