As we begin to understand the true impact of COVID-19, large disparities of outcome are emerging between countries. HBI speaks to operators and consultants across Europe to investigate how markets have been hit.
Pan-European dental group Curaeos has reportedly struck a deal with some of its creditors in a move that will lighten the company's debt while transferring a minority stake.
Malaysian's largest healthcare group has sold its stake in one of its two Indonesian hospitals, saying that the disposal is part of a "wider restructuring exercise" in the country.
HBI hears UK hospital and outpatient operators are taking a long hard look at their public/for-profit payor split as they continue to count the financial effect of COVID and look to the future.
If you’re building a dental network and can’t find the infrastructure you need, build it yourself. That’s the view of Louis Shakinovsky, chairman and co-founder at Global Dental Services, which as Clove Dental runs India’s biggest dental group. HBI caught up with him last week to find out more.
Europe's digital health companies could be run out of the market following a $18.5bn merger between Teladoc Health and Livongo. The newly formed largest virtual care company in the world has its sights set on a global market, and Chinese operators are likely to follow suit into Europe.
Second-quarter results for Europe's largest hospital operator Fresenius Helios's parent company confirm anecdotal evidence that Germany's hospitals are taking longer to return to 2019 levels of activity than other countries'. A closer look at the numbers also shows revenue crashing at its recently-acquired Colombian hospitals as the country is battered by COVID-19.
Click here to see your Deals+Insights briefing for September 2020 This month’s biggest stories include an $18.5bn digital healthcare merger, Orpea kickstarting a €1.5bn propco sell-off and a COVID post-mortem on the European elderly care sector. We’re also seeing larger processes inch forward, including Rede d’Or, Dentix and potentially Bergman Clinics although others have been […]
For all the talk of COVID-19 pushing ahead the digitalisation of healthcare, the use of video consultations in both actual numbers and as a percentage of consultations in primary care fell during the pandemic's peak. Recent headlines talk about 48% of primary care being delivered digitally, but most of these were telephone calls.
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