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Korian enters long-term real estate partnership

France-based pan-European Care group Korian has entered into a 15-year-partnership with BNP Paribas Cardif and EDF Invest, creating a real estate vehicle with Korian at the helm.

How the world’s largest consumer PE house views healthcare

At HBI 2020 we interviewed Chinta Bhagat, a managing partner at private equity house L Catterton, the world’s biggest private equity investor in consumer products and retail, about the destruction of the general hospital and the new digital models that will replace it. “If you don’t have digital embedded in everything you do in such a way as to give the customer a choice of how to interact with you, your business will eventually be destroyed,” he says. Bhagat should know, he led McKinsey’s healthcare practice in Asia for many years and at Khazanah Nasional was intimately involved in the creation of Pan-Asian hospital chain IHH. He is now scouting the world for digital healthcare investment opportunities.

FREE BLOG HMOs are the key to Israel’s vaccine success

Israel's HMOs have already transformed health risk predictions in Israel through big data analysis. Now, the systems' abilities to integrate messaging and data is pushing the country to the top of the COVID-19 vaccine league table. 

Denmark tenders €200m lab services for COVID-19

The Danish regions want to spend just over €201m on collection and analysis services for COVID-19 PCR and antigen tests. This is more than 13x what the market's largest players - Unilabs and Synlab - earnt in the market in 2019.

Digital coaching start-up Liva Healthcare raises €24.5m

Digital coaching group Liva Healthcare has raised €24.5m, led by Verlinvest, as it targets expansion into Germany and Benelux states. CEO Andre Sode tells HBI that providers using the tool can better monitor up to five times more patients annually.

Vaccinations in UK care homes rolled out this week

Vaccine teams started working en masse in UK care homes this week, providers tell HBI. The new move is expected to greatly accelerate the vaccination programme - one of the first of its kind in the world - as residents until now have had to leave facilities to be jabbed.

HBI 2020: Lessons on reaching the patient

An insurer, an integrated healthcare provider and a telehealth player are three providers with very different experiences of being able to reach the patient. HBI looks at four tangible lessons from Aetna, Medicover and Kry from HBI 2020.

HBI 2020: Hospital CEOs focus on digital, the care continuum and culture 

To a remarkable extent, hospitals CEOs whether in Europe, China or Emerging Markets share the same goals around extending their patient offering forwards into primary and back into chronic and rehabilitation using digital health to achieve this. And the one thing they all know they need to get right is culture.

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