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Interview: Pierre-Emmanuel Bercegeay, CEO, Ouihelp

This week we interview the CEO of French domiciliary care start-up Ouihelp, who is sceptical about patient-facing digital innovation in the sector. His comments come at a time when digital solutions are being widely explored as the key to improving everything from patient engagement, service accessibility and preventive healthcare.
October 31, 2019

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

DomusVi appoints new CEO

Europe's third-largest nursing home group by revenue, DomusVi, has appointed a new CEO with no healthcare services management experience. He is the group's third CEO in the space of a year.
October 24, 2019

Exclusive: Change at the top at Unilabs

Jos Lamers, 55, the man widely seen as the architect of modern-day Unilabs is moving away from a full-time role at the Pan-European lab and imaging platform, HBI can exclusively reveal. So what lies behind the move and who succeeds him as CEO?
October 14, 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

Orpea enters the UK with acquisition in psychiatry

Pan-European nursing home and psychiatric giant Orpea has entered the UK market for the first time. The group has bought a French psychiatric specialist which owns a premium facility in London. HBI speaks to Orpea and a market adviser about strategy, multiples, and whether this opens the door to further activity in the UK.
October 3, 2019

France’s third largest lab group ‘for sale’

One of France's largest lab groups, Inovie, has appointed France-based international bank BNP Paribas to explore potential financing - but its complex shareholder structure and president's public objection to external investment leaves open questions about how any sale could work.
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

French labs strike over proposed 10% tariff cut

The majority of France's private lab groups have started a nine-day strike after the country's statutory insurer unveiled plans that could shrink reimbursement by 10% over the next three years.
September 27, 2019

French teleconsultation providers struggle in first year of reimbursement

Uptake of remote consultations has been slow in France's first year of reimbursement with its statutory insurer l'Assurance Maladie paying for just 60,000 appointments. HBI speaks to KRY's French subsidiary Livi, which says that complex and changing regulations have stopped the public payor market growing, but B2C remains strong.
September 27, 2019
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