The French government has today announced that tariffs to reimburse healthcare will be decreased by 1.2% from March 1, 2018 compared to the 2017 tariff levels.
Gases giant Air Liquide's healthcare segment grew 9.3% in 2017, not matching the previous year's growth. Growth was higher in the Americas than in Europe and earnings-per-share saw a double-digit increase.
The clock is ticking for businesses to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force on May 25. Healthcare Europa talks to Aetna International's CIO Alan Payne to find out what the data handling regulations mean for healthcare insurers and operators, and the challenges on the path to compliance.
German and Swiss imaging investor RAD-x has acquired an outpatient diagnostic imaging group active in three Swiss cantons. We talk to RAD-x's CEO, and Affidea's former CEO, about the deal and prospects for consolidation in the sector in Switzerland, Germany and France.
French state-owned postal services giant La Poste has increasingly been moving into healthcare with the acquisition of France's fifth largest medicalised homecare provider and more recently a medical adherence app. We speak to a consultant who has covered French healthcare for decades, about the acquisition and the wider market.
A strong Q4 wasn’t enough to save pan-European private healthcare operator Capio from an almost 9% drop in profit for FY2017. Soon-to-depart CEO Thomas Berglund says the group is in a good position, with plans to restructure this year, and a greater focus on digital. But is this enough?
A new law allowing the management of primary care centres in France by for-profit enterprises for the first time could open the door to them also being run for profit - but campaigners in France are vehemently objecting.
We talk to the leading teleradiology company in France and reveal market size and growth rates. The sector is taking off in France as it already has in the UK and the Nordics.
Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000 employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.
Unilever runs a global health and prevention programme in over 90 countries for its 169,000 employees. How? What does Dr Thirumalai (known as Dr Raj) think of the private healthcare services sector? And what changes does he expect in the future? And what does he expect from digital health and AI? Dr Raj is also a non-executive independent director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and a speaker at HBI 2018 on April 10-11 in London.
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