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Funding occupational healthcare in Germany

HBI hears the market for manager-level medical checkups is worth around €1.5bn each year in Germany but this is predominately private pay. The occupational healthcare market feels like it's being held back by reimbursement models that don't support wider preventive care.

Aedifica gears up in Germany and makes first bid in Finland

Since the end of October, healthcare real-estate investor Aedifica has acquired five sites in Germany and put in a public tender offer to acquire 100% of Finnish healthcare property developer Hoivatilat. We speak to the company's chief investment officer about the details.

FREE BLOG Are you scared of Google yet?

Google is in the middle of a healthcare data grab. Details of its project to handle the data of 50m Americans through hospital group and insurer Ascension were revealed this week, just a couple of weeks after it announced the $2.1bn acquisition of Fitbit - a deal that is essentially also about data. The tech giant is just about reaching a point where its datasets are comprehensive enough to inflict real damage on the service sector.

Germany’s new frontier for digital healthcare

Germany's digital health sector has been overhauled as the Bundestag passes a law that will see prescribed health apps and teleconsultations publicly reimbursed, alongside a whole host of other reforms. HBI explains the law, assesses data on doctor attitudes to digital care, and looks at who is already moving in the sector.

Law could open up opportunities in German respiratory care

A draft law is being discussed in the German Parliament which could change the way businesses provide oxygen therapy outside of hospital, by moving patients away from homecare ventilation and into specialised nursing homes for respiratory treatment. An investor talks to us about this potential opportunity.

Asklepios bets big on digital

Asklepios, the second-largest German for-profit hospital group, plans to spend €500m on digitisation.

Waterland-backed Schönes Leben acquires in Germany

German nursing home operator Schönes Leben, backed by private equity house Waterland, has acquired bolt-on Mediko in the North. We ask a market expert what this means for the market and get estimated multiples.

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