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Medical drones by 2017?

Delivering medical samples by drone is faster, cleaner, safer and cheaper, claims Diego Cerutti, manager of the healthcare unit at Franco-Luxembourgois logistics group, Flash. It has developed its own packaging unit and attached it to a drone with a range of 20 miles that will be tested with real samples this summer. A consortium has come together to grow the project and Flash has already received calls from interested lab groups and hospitals in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. And this is not a pipe dream – Cerutti is talking about 2017 or 2018.

March 31, 2016

Gilde raises €100m healthcare services fund

Dutch private equity specialist Gilde Healthcare has closed a new €100m healthcare services fund in just three months. We speak to Jasper van Gorp, managing partner at Gilde, about the fund.

January 22, 2015

Report: Could the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) force open public sector provision to private competition?

We talk to academics and policymakers about TTIP's potential impact on public sector healthcare provision in Europe. Fear, uncertainty and doubt surround the discussions between the European Union and the United States on the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) and its possible impact on public healthcare services.

December 3, 2014

Eurocept buys Medizorg and tries to re-invent homecare

Eurocept, the Dutch pharmaceutical and home care company backed by private equity house GIMV, is to buy medicalised homecare group Medizorg to create a group with sales of €300m with Benelux and Pan-Nordic ambitions. We talk to Eurocept CEO, Mike van Woensel about homecare business models.

September 30, 2014

Cerba to buy JS Bio Selas

Franco-Belgian lab chain Cerba European Lab, where PAI has a majority stake, has carried out a bond issue to buy French regional lab chain JS Bio Selas. Meanwhile it has denied rumours that its Luxembourgoise lab Laboratoires Ketterthill is for sale. We look at the price it has paid and at Cerba’s European strategy.

May 30, 2014

Ribon sets up new healthcare fund

Denis Ribon,former global head of healthcare at 3i, has set up a new business Archimed to invest in healthcare services, medtech and pharma in Western Europe.

March 28, 2014

The Rise of the Industrial Internet: Presentation, Jean-Michel Malbrancq, CEO, GE Healthcare Europe

Minds & Machines: healthcare and the industrial internet - Jean-Michel will explain what the industrial internet means to healthcare and how this will help boost operator productivity. Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2014, The Return of the Bull Market.

March 13, 2014

Return of the Bull Market? Presentation, Martin Henrichs, Managing Director, Healthcare, Credit Suisse

Martin gives a detailed overview of transactions and volumes in Europe over the last year, focusing specifically on valuations. With stock market multiples at near record levels, he asks whether we are we about to see the return of a bull market in mergers and acquisitions. Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2014, The Return of the Bull Market.

March 13, 2014

Digitising Health and Care: Presentation, Nicolaus Henke, Head of Healthcare EMEA, Mckinsey

How to improve care and drive productivity in health providers. What works today? What will work in five years time? Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2014, The Return of the Bull Market.

March 13, 2014

Bribery in healthcare

The vast majority of bribes paid by citizens in Europe have to do with access to healthcare, according to an EU anti-corruption report. Healthcare and pharma businesses in Europe are also the most likely of any industry, with 77% agreeing, to think that corruption is widespread in their country. The report puts the total cost of corruption in the EU at €120bn - a little less than the annual EU budget. We look at the underlying numbers.

February 7, 2014

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