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Lack of infrastructure hampers integrated digital care

Progress made on the digital and data front continues to raise hopes of truly integrated healthcare, but that promise relies on infrastructure which can support it. At digital healthcare conference HIMSS21, a panel of European experts warned that in countries like Spain and the UK, infrastructure issues are the biggest impediment to progress.
June 17, 2021

How much of Europe’s homecare is ‘grey’?

This week HBI breaks down data from several sources and illustrates the share of informal homecare in European Countries and the UK. It makes clear just how much care at home is being illegally delivered.
June 3, 2021

Interview: Marc Saillon, CEO, Almage Alzheimer Centers

The French nursing home sector has produced some of the largest consolidators in Europe, such as Orpea and Korian. But even small groups are looking at international expansion. Almage, a group with just six homes and 530 beds dedicated to Alzheimer care, plans to hit Spain in the next few months and is looking at other European markets. Marc Saillon, the CEO of Almage Alzheimer Centers, also tells us that the group has expanded into consultancy in China.
May 13, 2021

EU countries to pump €50bn into health and social reform recovery plans

EU countries have already earmarked over €47bn euros to spend on health care from the €672bn Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the continent's centrepiece of COVID-19 recovery. Digital innovation, primary care and long-term care are clear spending priorities across the board. We should know the full allocations next week.
April 29, 2021

Interview: Raj Shah, Partner and Head of Healthcare, Nordic Capital

Few investors have been as active in healthcare services as Nordic Capital. Or as ambitious in building pan-European platforms in outpatient sectors such as dentistry, veterinary and ophthalmology. Raj Shah is also looking for new deals - Nordic has just raised a massive €6.1bn for its tenth fund of which 30-40% is destined for healthcare. 
April 22, 2021

Covid continues to boost Unilabs in 2021

Executive chairman Jos Lamers has told HBI that Covid sales continue to rise in Q1 and Q2 2021. They certainly boosted 2020 results at the international lab and imaging group owned by Apax Partners. Like rivals Synlab and Sonic, the business continues to roar away. 
April 15, 2021

Vithas puts weight behind new diagnostics division

Spain's second-largest hospital group Vithas has brought together its diagnostic arms into a new division called Vithas Diagnostics. It's headed by a new employee, who comes straight from Synlab.
April 8, 2021

Spanish fertility and cosmetic group plans hospital network

Madrid-based holding company Otsu Group, which operates Eva Fertility Clinics, the cosmetic Dorsia Clinics chain, and Origen Clinics, a network psychology and psychiatry clinics, is looking to build a hospital network following the acquisition of Hospital Policlínico de Barcelona.
March 25, 2021
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