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The EU digital health start-up landscape

Technology-driven healthcare solutions from telehealth to digital therapeutics have received much attention through the pandemic. We look at the landscape of Europe's largest players, who have collectively raised over €1.3bn since the beginning of 2019.

Babylon makes triple hires from US tech scene

UK-based digital health company Babylon has hired a trio of new senior management personnel from Amazon, Expedia and Brex. The tech unicorn says the new leadership will work on US-based growth this year. 

Khemka’s big plans for Simplyhealth

Sneh Khemka has quit Aetna International where he was VP of Population Health & vHealth to become CEO of Simplyhealth, a £240m revenue, not-for-profit provider of cashplans for corporates and private individuals which in total covers 2.3m people in the UK. He tells us that his brief is to rethink how Simplyhealth can best provide access to health care services over the next 30-50 years.

Italy’s recovery plan has €18bn for healthcare, the UK’s none

Italy's COVID-19 recovery plan contains €18bn for homecare, integrated health facilities and telemedicine that can be run by the private sector in a whole-scale reform of the country's healthcare system. Meanwhile, a new budget in the UK failed to allot any new funds for its overstretched health and social service. 

$20bn merger could transform Brazilian healthcare market

A $20bn merger between two giants of Brazilian healthcare, listed HMOs Hapvida Participacoes e Investimentos SA and Notre Dame Intermedica Participacoes SA (GNDI), will create one of the world’s biggest companies providing verticalized health-care solutions. HBI looks at the deal in detail, and talks to a Brazil-based operator to find out more.

HBI Deals+Insights briefing April 2021: Intelligence members

Click here to see your Deals+Insights briefing for April 2021 April's edition looks at the ongoing recovery in healthcare markets. Bergman Clinics finally sold, a $20bn Brazilian merger broke records and more lab groups started sales processes. It has exclusives on NHS England’s spend on private hospitals for Covid, NMC’s Aspen disposal and the Penta […]

HBI Deals+Insights Briefing April 2021

Click here to see your Deals+Insights briefing for April 2021 April's edition looks at the ongoing recovery in healthcare markets. Bergman Clinics finally sold, a $20bn Brazilian merger broke records and more lab groups started sales processes. It has exclusives on NHS England’s spend on private hospitals for Covid, NMC’s Aspen disposal and the Penta […]

Aedifica invests heavily in nursing home property

Aedifica invested in 117 sites in the past year, growing the value of its real estate 62% to €3.7bn. This week HBI looks at where and how the Belgian REIT invested over €1.2bn since the beginning of 2020.

IBM’s flight from healthcare shows AI must be local

IBM is on the retreat from its decade long AI in healthcare project: a multi-billion-dollar buy-and-build strategy to gather billions of data points fed into supercomputer Watson. Critics say the business has been unprofitable, overpromised and questioned how fit for purpose it is. HBI gets the inside track.

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