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Private insurance premium inflation down, public up

Private medical insurers will likely drop premium increases over the next 18 months on the back of near-record profitability in 2020. In contrast, public insurers warn that its costs will rise to cancel out growing deficits.
December 10, 2020

Investors love German dental, ophtha and imaging

Dentistry, ophthalmology and imaging/radiotherapy have received the most investor interest recently of all German outpatient sectors, says a soon-to-be published whitepaper by consultancy Ebner Stolz. 
December 10, 2020

Interview: Dr Peter Byloos, Optegra

As HBI reported last week, UK, Czechia and Poland-based ophthalmology platform Optegra Eye Health Care is being acquired by H2 Equity Partners. HBI caught up with Optegra CEO Dr Peter Byloos to hear his views on the market (and inevitably these days, the impact of COVID), and to find out about Optegra’s plans under new ownership. 
December 3, 2020

Interview: Klaus Boehncke, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting 

What can you do with AI and big data today and what will be possible within three years? Why has adoption been slower than you might have expected? And what sort of role should health care providers look to play? HBI gets an expert view from digital, technology and business strategy expert Klaus Boehncke, partner at L.E.K. Consulting, who is chairing the Best Practice Workshop: Delivering Digital Excellence: A Framework for Success at HBI 2020 in two weeks.
December 3, 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa invests and insources during pandemic

The direct health impact of COVID-19 on sub-Saharan Africa has so far been significantly less than expected. But economic activity has fallen sharply and a vaccine impact is not expected until late next year. Panellists from Anadach, the IFC, Columbia Africa, AfyA Care and Nyaho Medical Centre talk about consolidation, supply chains and teledensity.
November 30, 2020

Nordics: Finding positives in a difficult year

HBI 365's State of the Regions: Nordics panel found a lot of positives had come out of a difficult year. But better relationships with payors and public providers, and a vastly increased understanding and recognition of the benefits of digital clinics were tempered with the knowledge that, as the pandemic recedes, the new normal is likely to see some of these advances pull back - albeit not to pre COVID levels.
November 30, 2020

Bringing costs down in South East Asia

HBI State of the Regions continued on Tuesday morning with a look at SE Asia. It's "overloaded" in some parts with "substantial coverage gaps" in others, with big provider/payor conflict in most. Eduardo Banzon from the Asian Development Bank, Cole Sirucek from DocDoc, and Angus Slater from Bupa talk about the biggest challenges and opportunities on the continent.
November 30, 2020

Special report: How rationing care in the pandemic is killing the elderly

People over the age of 80 are up to three times more likely to die of a COVID-19 infection in countries using rigid rationing guidelines that can exclude the elderly from intensive care - and sometimes even from hospital. HBI's extensive analysis of death, hospital and ICU data reveals that Sweden has lost eight times more, England seven and the Netherlands six of its elderly population compared to Germany. In a special report, we explore how rationing killed the elderly.
November 26, 2020
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