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Interview: Peter Lackner, Director, Uniqa International

Peter Lackner is a board member at Vienna-based pan-European general insurer Uniqa International. Uniqa has over half the €1.7bn Austrian 2011 private medical insurance (PMI) market, with €814m of premiums written in 2011. The company sells PMI in nine of its 16 East European operations. It also owns PremiQaMed, the largest private hospital chain in Austria. We talk with Lackner about the prospects for PMI in the region and Uniqa's country-by-country performance.
October 3, 2012

New CEO at Euromedic

Big imaging services provider Euromedic International has appointed Dimitris Moulavasilis as its new CEO, following the departure earlier in 2012 of Richard di Benedetto. A CFO has yet to be announced, but has been selected.
September 25, 2012

Priel to create new Pan-East Europe group

Joseph Priel, the co-founder of Euromedic, the big imaging services provider, is creating a new East European healthcare group. So far, the group consists of a chain of clinics in Romania, plus plans to build the first big private hospital in Budapest. It is targeting self-payors - a market which Priel says is exploding as public healthcare systems across the region deteriorate....
March 26, 2012

Interview: Václav Jirkù, Investment Director, Penta Investments

Václav Jirkù is in charge of healthcare investment strategy at Penta Investments which is the most active private equity investor in healthcare services across Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, the Visegrad 4 countries, as well as looking at the wider East European market. So where does he spot opportunities in healthcare services over the next five years?...
November 25, 2011

Interview: Karen Prosser, EC Harris, Partner, Health sector

Karen started her career as a radiographer in the British NHS before joining Siemens and then moving into consultancy with EC Harris, the international built asset consultancy. The practice works with both public and private sector organisations to assist in delivering best value for money from their health facilities. This not only includes development of new buildings but also assesses how facilities are managed over the long term, including looking at delivery of cleaning and catering services.....
September 23, 2011

Interview: Tomáš Macháček, HealthReform

We interview Tomáš Machácek, head of the thinktank HealthReform and chief executive of KlientPRO, about the prospects for healthcare reform and the private sector in the Czech republic....
September 7, 2011

Medihealth aims at Poland

Medihelp, the Bupa insurance broker which claims an 80-90% of the market for high-end healthcare insurance sales in Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria, intends to move into Poland. President Zahal Levy claims his sales are growing at between 40-50% a year. He is also investigating launching a lower priced product for the middle classes....
June 29, 2011

Di Benedetto lays out road map

Speaking at the Investing in Healthcare in Europe conference, chief executive Richard di Benedetto laid down the road map for Euromedic and gave an overview of valuations and growth in imaging services across Eastern and Southern Europe....
May 12, 2011
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