Nordic Capital has acquired three dental clinic chains and a laboratory company to launch a pan-European dental group, the private equity fund announced on 19 February.
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.
Value-based healthcare is seen by many as the best way to gain lasting competitive advantage. Healthcare Europa speaks to Vesa Komssi, CEO of Finland-based management consultants Nordic Healthcare Group.
Integrated care operator Optimedis, which is now active in the UK and the Netherlands as well as Germany, is getting a new round of financing and has also linked up with big diagnostic groups.
Swedish private equity group EQT pre-empted second round bidding for Curaeos, the Dutch dentistry group which has expanded into Belgium, Denmark, Germany and Italy. But it is paying the seller, Bencis Capital Partners, a very high price. We look at the price and the roll up.
The Netherlands’ largest ambulatory clinic chain announced a 60:40 merger with the second largest yesterday (September 26) creating a group that dominates hip and knee ops, and is aiming for €500m in sales within three years. We speak to Bergman CEO Bart Malenstein and a local advisor.
That is a very bold statement indeed. But Prof Richard Boucherie at the Centre for Healthcare Operations Improvement and Research (CHOIR) of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, reckons it is true. For the past 15 years CHOIR has been helping Dutch hospitals, labs and homecare groups to increase their efficiency through mathematical modelling using operations research methods including queueing theory, optimisation and computer simulation. We interview him on how such an approach can make massive efficiency gains.
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