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Spanish fertility medical tourism in decline

Spain's large and liberal IVF market has long attracted a steady stream of medical tourists into the country, but as other Europe markets catch up, this is beginning to dwindle. With the market already consolidated, where does this leave growth in the country's sector? HBI talks to an operator to find out more.

DomusVi extends its medicalised homecare offering

DomusVi, Spain's largest nursing home operator by revenue, is entering a partnership with Axa Partners and Philips to extend its medicalised homecare offering. The trio will deliver medical technology to clients suffering from respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and breathing difficulties due to asthma. A pilot is underway involving 60 people […]

Homecare business model focuses on partnerships for profit

Spanish medicalised homecare specialist Qida has developed a business model that it claims could bump margins in a traditionally low margin market. We speak to the company's founder and CEO about its model and how it plans to tackle the biggest challenges in for-profit homecare.

Selling whole genome sequencing to consumers

Javier Echevarria, CEO, Europe and LatAm of Veritas International (VI) has one of the most interesting challenges in marketing - how do you persuade wealthy consumers to spend around $2,000 on predictive whole genome sequencing (WGS)?  He has a broad canvas - his remit is to sell across LatAm, UAE, Europe and Japan.

Fresenius full-year results confirm German struggles for Helios

Diversified healthcare group Fresenius has posted 2% sales growth in 2018, while weaker performance in its German hospitals highlighted the rationale of acquiring Spanish hospital group Quironsalud two years ago. We explain why the Spanish market is so much more attractive than the German and will continue to make up for the headwinds there that […]

A new European healthcare-specialised REIT in the making

Spanish real-estate investor and financial healthcare specialist Healthcare Activos has appointed a new CEO in preparation for its European expansion next year. We speak to the founder and former CEO about the company's plans, which include becoming Europe's newest healthcare-only REIT.

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