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Dutch developer FocusCura’s heart monitoring app attracts payors

For the first time in Europe an insurer has agreed to fully reimburse app-based healthcare service, according to app designer FocusCura. Dutch patients using “hartwacht”, an app monitoring heart and cardiovascular diseases, will be fully reimbursed by insurer Zilveren Kruis. The group has developed a comprehensive platform connecting patients and carers – claiming a 26% drop in emergency admission rates.
June 13, 2016

Acibadem’s European plans

IHH Healthcare’s Turkish arm Acibadem has big plans for Europe where it recently became the largest player in Bulgaria with the acquisition of City Clinics. It is negotiating to buy in Romania and will build facilities in two other European countries.
June 9, 2016

Norlandia moves into new markets

Elderly care and child care player Norlandia is looking to expand to new markets, including north Germany and the UK, in an aggressive roll-out strategy. It says it is also considering launching elderly care platforms in Finland and the Netherlands – where it currently only operates pre-schools. We speak to CEO Hilde-Britt Mellbye.
May 24, 2016

Mediq for sale

Deutsche Bank and Evercore are seeking buyers for Mediq, the multinational medicalised homecare and direct-to-hospital distributor bought by private equity house Advent International in 2013. We look at likely buyers and at the company.
May 20, 2016

Dunyagoz to strengthen its hospital network

Turkish ophthalmology group Dunyagoz, which runs 22 centres in Turkey and Europe, is expanding to neighbouring countries and beyond. It is looking at Iran and Russia and is launching two new hospitals in the Netherlands and Azerbaijan in June 2016. We speak to CEO Koray Ozbay about the group’s strategy.
April 18, 2016

Healthcare real estate investors break barriers

The internationalisation of healthcare real estate is gathering pace, according to all the signs at MIPIM, the world’s largest property conference. Numerous investors told Healthcare Europa they were looking beyond their core markets. This follows recent foreign ventures by the healthcare REITs Aedifica, Cofinimmo, Primary Health Properties (PHP) and Medical Properties Trust (MPT). We look at why.
March 21, 2016

Aedifica buys Dutch care homes

The Belgian REIT, Aedifica, has paid Dutch nursing home operator, Domus Magnus, €30m for four nursing homes. Aedifica’s first acquisition in Holland was driven by strong yields and the potential to fund the growth of a market consolidator. We investigate.
March 11, 2016

Competitors angry at Buurtzorg takeover

Dutch nurse-led homecare group Buurtzorg has volunteered to the Ministry of Health to take over domiciliary care/medicalised homecare TSN Thuiszorg. TSN, which is the largest group in the country, is in lenders' hands due to a €400m cutback in the public-private homecare sector. Buurtzorg has committed to admit 75% of TSN's staff in exchange for a favourable €21 hourly tariff. The deal would automatically leave Buurtzorg as the market leader, but competitors tell us that that they are angry.
February 10, 2016

Interview gives insight into the Dutch private clinic market

In a far-reaching interview with a leading financial daily, Bart Malenstein, the young CEO of Bergman Clinics, the largest Dutch private clinic group, reveals the pressures faced by the private clinic sector in the Netherlands. He even goes so far as to say that "more than once" he toyed with the idea of shutting the door and not coming back. He refused to reveal 2014 results which have yet to be published. But he says that Bergman has reached an agreement with Rabobank.
January 28, 2016
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