German digital therapeutics (DTx) app Kaia Health tells HBI it will soon launch in France and the UK after completing Europe's largest randomised control trial (RCT) for DTx focused on a chronic disease.
Cigna now describes itself as “a global health service company” rather than an insurer and has reorganised its European operations. Toor has recently been promoted to CEO Europe. He says that the insurer, which has 15% (US$840m) of its revenue in Europe, doesn't want to verticalise through owning primary care providers but wants instead to provide an end-to-end user experience.
The IFC has loaned $5.2m to Nyaho Medical Centre, which claims to be the first private medical centre in Ghana, to help it expand outside of the capital Accra.
How you add value to a business – especially post acquisition – is a hotly debated topic and is even more to the fore in these hopefully soon-to-be post-COVID times. But are there easy wins? Panellists at HBI's latest Big Picture debate on Wednesday thought so.
For-profit hospitals across West Europe are ramping up activity as governmental financial protections are slowly phased out, but it’s taking much longer than in outpatient facilities and varies wildly from country to country. Why? HBI looks at the situation in Germany, France, Switzerland, the UK and Ireland. From July 1, German hospitals are no longer […]
Netherlands-based elderly tech solutions developer FocusCura has been bought by listed Swedish conglomerate ASSA ABLOY around 18 months after spinning off its telemonitoring app Luscii into a separate subsidiary. The €20bn market-cap 'access solutions' firm is a curious buyer but it tells HBI that the acquisition creates opportunities to develop further products for elderly care.
CVC might be about to create a major integrated managed care system in Greece. Its target is the insurer Ethniki, and should it succeed HBI understands it would become the dominant player in Greek healthcare services, with competitors potentially frantically scrambling to merge and acquire to make up lost ground. So why hasn't this happened more in Europe?
HBI talks to Tony Veverka, CEO of Transform Hospital Group, about the groups experience of reopening its core cosmetic business after supporting the NHS though COVID since the start of April, the affect on its revenue, and his hope a new understanding might be reached with the NHS.
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