In Argentina a domiciliary homecare group has taken over three hotels to offer accommodation to Covid-symptomatic patients. What does this say about the wider links between hotels and care homes in Emerging Markets?
The Czech Republic's largest primary care and occupational healthcare provider by revenue, EUC, has been leading the charge in bringing digital health care to the country. Daniel Soukup, head of its Virtual Clinic, tells HBI that while the service has before been only for its private-pay patients, it is starting to work much closer with public insurers to bring telemedicine to more people.
Asklepios has effectively taken over Rhoen Klinikum after B Braun with a 25% stake accepted the offer. The deal increases the consolidation in the private hospital sector.
For the first time in Germany publicly-insured patients can go straight to an app to have a teleconsultation without paying out of pocket. Small start-up TeleClinic is the first to launch a reimbursable service, which comes as the country's largest statutory insurer launches its own telehealth solution and KRY and Doctolib enter the market. TeleClinic CEO tells HBI it hopes to hit 100,000 consultations this year.
Investment activity in telemedicine booths has picked up over the past month with Babylon leading a Series B of US-based Higi and France-based H4D closing a €15m round. H4D's founder tells HBI that it's a half a billion potential market in France alone.
A v-shaped recovery, new markets, new customers, new entrants, new technology and the ear of big government: the HBI 2020 diagnostics panel discussion reveals new opportunities.
PE firm CVC has increased its offer for Indian oncology chain HCG in anticipation of a rival bid from another of the cancer chain's large shareholders, Temasek.
The administrators appointed to oversee GCC-based and formerly London-listed NMC Health PLC say it is facing likely liquidation or dissolution, and ongoing investigations must be completed to ascertain the company's true liabilities. A sale of the business as a going concern is now all but off the table. Meanwhile, HBI hears potential buyers for the most prized parts of the business are waiting for a rock bottom price 'fire sale'.
The population of GCC countries is set to fall by up to 10%, according to a report by global forecasting and quantitative analysis group Oxford Economics, as coronavirus encourages the largely foreign workforce to leave. HBI speaks to a source in the Gulf to find out how this might effect the insurance / healthcare market there.
Telehealth company Babylon has admitted a data breach, after a patient using its UK-based app GP at Hand was able to see recordings of other patient's consultations.
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