HBI has downgraded its growth forecast for the Swedish telehealth market for 2019 after the country cut the tariff for telehealth consultations by 23%.
The only way that digital care can be financially sustainable for both payors and operators is if it can scale. But recent debates in the UK and Sweden show that the public payor - the main mechanism that enables scale - is not yet equipped with the right mechanism to fund it.
One of Europe's most developed digital health markets, Sweden, is at risk as policymakers consider reimbursement reductions and making its B2C telehealth players restructure to reduce scale. Providers say they might abandon the market.
Investor is to complete its pullout from the health care services sector according to sources. Having flogged Aleris' primary care arm to and its care business to Ambea, we hear it now wants to sell off its hospital business in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
Value health is the revolutionary idea pioneered by Harvard guru Michael Porter. He had the temerity to suggest providers should be rewarded for quality, rather than activity and that the patient should be viewed and consulted as customers. Invented in the early noughties, it hit a high water mark 7-8 years ago when Obamacare was rolled out incorporating the concept. Then it felt like an inexorable river.
Three of the Nordic's largest operators took to the stage at HBI 2019 to speak about pan-Nordic collaboration. Here's what Fredrik Gren, CEO of Ambea, Alexander Wennergren Helm, CEO of Aleris, and Yrjö Närnhinen, CEO of Terveystalo, said.
If there was one overriding theme to come out of HBI 2019, it is that the future is digital - and in some cases, it's here. Ten per cent of Finland's population is registered to use Mehilainen's digital healthcare app, patients make 25k digital healthcare visits every month in Sweden, and 90% of the world's healthcare data has been created in the past two years.
Ramsay Generale de Sante has revealed just €20m of synergies will be gained from its Capio deal, or around 1.8% of the deal value, highlighting the lower synergies accruable in the hospital sector compared with other sectors where the synergy-to-valuation ratio can be twice as high. Ramsay Generale de Sante’s second, successful offer for the […]
This week we calculate the ratio of elderly care beds for all citizens aged 85 and over across sixteen European countries. The resulting graphic gives a telling overview of provision and opportunities across different markets.
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