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HBI 2022: Integrated care is tricky – but worth it

Integrated care is well worth delivering. Not only can it help to break down the silos which get in the way of efficient healthcare delivery, but some very effective tools can only be used with integration. A panel at HBI 2022 asked: What do firms have to consider before they can deliver it?

Vivalto Sante goes international with expansion into Portugal and Switzerland

Vivalto Sante, the third largest for-profit hospital group in France, is joining the likes of Fresenius, Ramsay and Mediclinic as it becomes the latest member of the highly select club of multinational hospital groups. As well as having bought a chain of three clinics in Switzerland, it is buying Lusiadas Saude, the third largest hospital group in Portugal. CEO Daniel Caille tells HBI that the decision to go international has nothing to do with opportunities for consolidation within the French market drying up.

3R buys in Switzerland and looks at France

Naxicap-owned imaging group 3R Réseau Radiologique Romand has bought IRIS Radiologie and is eyeing up France. Germany and Italy are also possibles, HBI hears.

Swiss labs suffer 10% cut, more may follow

Switzerland has chopped its diagnostic lab prices by 10% in a move that is billed as saving CHf 140m (€141). There could well be further crackdowns following a publication highlighting the massive differences between Swiss prices and those in France, Germany and the Netherlands.

New pricing engine allows Spire to capitalise on self-pay

Spire Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest private hospital groups, unveiled its new ‘pricing engine’ at their capital markets day this week - a computer programme which calculates optimal prices based on data about competitor pricing, procedures, inflation, and location, to automate price changes much quicker than was possible previously.

HBI 2022: Rosy future for dentistry, despite resurfacing threats

Pre-Covid, dentistry was seen as one of the hot tickets of healthcare services, largely unconsolidated, and attracting huge interest, not least from private equity. Covid took its toll but as the threat from the pandemic recedes in Europe, the focus has shifted back onto the opportunities in the sector – and onto other, longer-lasting problems like staffing, training, and the threat of recession. Despite these threats, according to a panel at HBI 2022, the future for the sector looks bright.

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