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Primary care networks and the need for eHubs

An eHub platform pioneered by GP-led NHS Partnership the Hurley Group has been replicated elsewhere across the UK. HBI speaks to a pioneer of the concept to find out how eHubs work, and how they could transform primary care.
June 17, 2021

Malaysian private hospitals struggling to procure vaccines

For-profit hospitals in Malaysia looking to provide a private Covid vaccination service are struggling to source vaccines. HBI talks to Dr Datuk Kuljit Singh, medical director at Prince Court Medical Centre and president of the Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia (APHM), to find out more.
June 17, 2021

EU healthcare is a bribery hotspot

Healthcare in Europe is a corruption hotspot: six percent of people have paid bribes to get medical care and a third relied on personal connections. That's according to a new report by Transparency International. 
June 17, 2021

Interview: Daniel Nathrath, CEO, Ada Health

Berlin-based Ada Health will soon launch direct-to-consumer diagnostic tests, sensors and wearables to sit alongside its symptom checking services. CEO Daniel Nathrath tells HBI that it's been about two years since the product commercialised, so HBI sat down to determine where the company and its product are today.
June 17, 2021

Spire shareholder rebellion grows as Toscafund voices opposition

Global hospital group Ramsay Health Care's 240p-per-share bid for UK chain Spire Healthcare looks increasingly unlikely to make it over the line, with two of its four largest institutional investors now voicing opposition. We talk to an analyst about Spire's outlook and look at its shareholder structure. 
June 16, 2021

Orange and AXA buy pan-African digital health player

Telecoms giant Orange and insurer AXA will become majority shareholders of the appointment booking and telehealth platform DabaDoc, which operates mostly in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. It has intentions to expand across Sub-Saharan Africa.
June 10, 2021

Private players swoop on national hotlines

Outpatient group Gajda-Med has won Poland's multi-million euro contract to deliver first-contact telehealth services for the Polish NHS. It follows a recent trend of private sector companies moving to work on national hotlines, including in Sweden and Switzerland, and it is very controversial where operators already own physical clinics.
June 10, 2021

Life Healthcare soars 17% on aducanumab’s FDA approval

The first FDA approval for an Alzheimer's drug in 20 years, aducanumab, sent the share price of South African and European hospital/imaging group Life Healthcare soaring 17%. The group manufacturers one of only three amyloid tracers for PET-CT diagnosis of the disease and is also the largest for-profit provider of PET-CT scans in Europe.
June 10, 2021

FREE BLOG Occupational health is a gateway acquisition

Health and safety, absence management, employee surveys .. at first glance occupational healthcare is an unimportant line of business. That is until an acquisition can add hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of new patients to a healthcare operator's books.
June 10, 2021

Public health services in Helsinki outsourced to Mehiläinen

Finnish outpatient and occupational healthcare specialist Mehiläinen has been chosen as a provider of public primary health services in Helsinki. This is the first time that public care outsourcing has happened in the capital, Markku Näreneva, Mehiläinen's Director of Public Health Services tells HBI.
June 10, 2021
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