The temporary authorisation of telemedicine in Brazil will become permanent, HBI is told by a source close to the decision-making process, as the country's legislature is set to unveil a new law in Q4/1.
As the first two health apps in Germany can now be prescribed with reimbursement, HBI speaks to their founders about how they will actually get the solutions to patients. Kalmeda and velibra, apps designed to treat tinnitus and anxiety respectively, were the first two to be eligible for reimbursement under Germany’s digital supply law, introduced […]
UK Addiction Treatment claims 97% occupancy within a week of opening its latest facility. But would you invest in a business run by addicts for addicts? Or whose majority investor, Global Group, has recently seen its founder, Greg Lindbergh, jailed for bribing a US official? We talk to UKAT CEO, Eytan Alexander.
Swedish B2C telehealth player Kry has registered 14,000 patients in its first health care centre in Sweden, which comes as it's been forced into the capitated funding system. The start-up has been criticised for not making it clear enough to patients that they would be de-registered from their physical healthcare practice.
Valuations in the healthcare services sector will roughly stay the same post-COVID, according to a panel of investors from UBS, EQT, Icade Sante and TPG at a HBI-365 panel. That's despite the fact that HBI-365 delegates do not think that deal flow will return to pre-pandemic levels until the second half of next year.
HBI hears Synlab's private equity owner Cinven has mandated banks for an initial public offering, expected to take place next year. It will value Synlab at €5bn-6bn.
HBI speaks exclusively to George Spanos, chairman and CEO of Greece's largest primary care and diagnostic chain, about the company's plans for the future and whether rumours the company might be for sale are true.
eQ Care special investment fund has signed an agreement to sell a substantial portfolio of healthcare properties, predominantly elderly and special care homes, to a Scandinavian property fund with a focus on social care.
Africa needs to come together to find a solution to the COVID crisis, which has proved to be as much an economic one as a healthcare one - and cannot and should not rely on help from outside. This was the view of an expert panel which convened online to discuss COVID-19, healthcare more generally, and African economics.
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