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Affidea exits all operations in Hungary

Pan-European diagnostics and outpatient group Affidea is selling all of its Hungarian operations to Medicare Group, a Hungary-based private healthcare provider, marking a full exit from the country where it was founded in 1991.

Hungary bans private imaging groups from participating in public system

The government of Hungary is banning private providers of diagnostic imaging from providing publicly funded services. Pan-European diagnostics and outpatient group Affidea, the biggest private imaging provider in the country, tells us they will continue to operate in the country for privately funded patients.

TritonLife and Synlab enter strategic partnership

TritonLife Labs, part of Hungarian private healthcare provider TritonLife Group, has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with SYNLAB, European provider of laboratory diagnostic services. The two companies will work together to serve the entire network of TritonLife Group, both individual and corporate clients, from the beginning of February 2025. 

HBI News Round Up, Friday 30th August 2024

In this HBI News Round Up we cover the investment summary of pan-European firm Affidea's Romanian branch the first half of 2024, global leader in RNA-based genomic diagnostics BioNexus Gene Lab Corp’s investment into a pioneering Malaysian healthcare technology firm, Ascension Innovation Sdn Bhd, and Portuguese hospital group CUF's profits results for the first half of 2024.

New AI act could stifle EU innovation – but benefit the UK

After 38 hours of deliberation, a long-awaited deal has finally been reached in Brussels. HBI speaks to three market experts to understand what the AI Act - the comprehensive European framework for AI innovation and regulation - could mean for the future of healthcare in Europe.

Hungary: high risk, high reward

The Hungarian hospital market is growing at 10% per year nominally, with some of the biggest players outstripping this. With such rapid growth and growing demand the potential reward for investors is great – but with this also comes big risks.

Hungary’s health care sector boosted by new state-of-the-art TritonLife lab

TritonLife, Hungary’s largest private hospital group, has significantly boosted the country’s diagnostic testing capacity by opening a new state-of-the-art laboratory in Budapest. The group tells HBI it will eventually have the capacity to process 10 million tests per year, including many which previously had to be sent abroad to be processed. As well as providing an in-house diagnostics service to the group’s own patients, TritonLife has agreed to provide testing services to more than 20 other private health care providers in the country.

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