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HBI Deals+Insights briefing November 2023: Intelligence members

 Click here to see your Deals+Insights November 2023 November sees the return of our popular annual Top 100, listing the largest health care services groups in EMEA by revenue. See who the biggest winners of the last year were - and who has slipped down the rankings. We also look at post-election prospects for for-profits […]

FREE BLOG Why the EU won’t become the global standard-setter for AI regulation 

Last week HBI attended a breakfast event hosted by international law firm BonelliErede on the impact of AI in health care. Vincenzo Salvatore, an expert on EU law and the former head of legal at the European Medical Association (EMA), gave a presentation in which he discussed the EU’s plans for regulating the use of AI.

Stocks of €1bn+ groups almost all down since start of 2022

This week we are publishing our third edition of the Top 100, a list of the 100 largest health care services groups in EMEA by revenue. Out of the 100 companies, 33 are listed entities whose primary operations are in EMEA health care services, and 16 of those have over €1bn revenue. In this infographic we look at how the share prices of those 16 groups have fared since the start of 2022 (since the Top 100 is based on 2022 revenue figures).

The Top 100 largest groups in EMEA by revenue

Who are the biggest health care services companies in EMEA? For the third year running we have compiled a list of the Top 100 companies by revenue from HBI Intelligence's database, which includes 5,000+ health care services operators across Europe, the Middle East and emerging markets across Asia and Latin America. The Top 100 shows these companies’ sales relating to health care service activities in EMEA only.

Key takeaways from the HETT 2023 London Conference

Last week, HBI joined thousands of delegates at the Health Excellence Through Technology (HETT) 2023 conference in London, where exhibiters congregated to explore how digital innovation can be leveraged to address record-level NHS waiting lists - something keynote speaker Vin Diwakar, medical director for transformation dubbed “the greatest crisis since the Second World War.”

HBI Deals+Insights briefing October 2023: Deals+Insights members

Click here to see your Deals+Insights October 2023 In October's double edition we look at the strength of the international hospital market and investigate whether the apparent freeze on M&A is rapidly thawing. Major M&A deals include the sale of the UK's largest hospital group, Circle Health, the acquisition of Polish hospital group American Heart […]

Why it pays to do the basics when building a patient pathway

A German outpatient operator tells HBI how providers are attracting and keeping patients within their businesses throughout the patient pathway, with as many as 50% of complex ophthalmology referrals coming from internal sources. HBI hears it pays to do basic (less profitable) work and even consider retail early in the patient journey so when they really do need help, they already have a provider of choice.

Private pay: Rising – but not as fast as you think

Data from the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) shows the self-pay bubble in the UK seems to have reached its peak. While private pay admissions are still rising across the country, self-pay is out while private medical insurance (PMI) is in.

FREE BLOG The massive potential generative AI offers for health care

The AI Revolution in Medicine GPT-4 and Beyond is an unusual book because it is made up of conversations with Open AI, the research lab part-owned by Microsoft. So the loudest voice in the book is GPT-4. It is a voice which leaves you slack-jawed with amazement.

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