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Interview: Chad Holmes, Red Hat Mobile: Mobile apps can save operators time and money

Mobile app technology has the potential to transform the way healthcare information is recorded, stored and shared - saving time and money and improving patient care. This rapidly growing field can cover everything from getting data from patients and to caregivers, and monitoring and suggesting treatment, to simply helping people navigate hospital sites. We speak to Chad Holmes, senior mobile solutions architect and healthcare sector specialist with US-based Red Hat Mobile which commissioned a survey about mobile app use.
November 22, 2016

FREE BLOG The price of management

Bupa is the second global player to buy in the UK healthcare market this week – its deal for dental group Oasis follows Life Healthcare’s acquisition of Alliance Medical. There are two things that stand out about the deals: the Brexit factor and the premium paid for top-rated management teams.
November 18, 2016

Did Bupa pay too much for Oasis?

Bridgepoint-owned UK dentistry chain Oasis Dental Care has sold to Bupa for £835m – an estimated forward EV/EBITDA multiple of over 15x. We speak to a consultant close to the deal about Oasis’s valuation.
November 18, 2016

Bupa buys Oasis Healthcare

As predicted by Healthcare Europa last month, Bupa has bought Oasis Healthcare, the UK’s second largest independent dentistry chain, from Bridgepoint, the European private equity group. The transaction values the business at £835 million. Further consolidation looks likely.
November 18, 2016

Life buys Alliance

As forecast here, Life Healthcare has purchased Alliance Medical, the big Anglo-Italian imaging services platform with a limited presence in a further six countries. The enterprise value of between £760m and £800m values the company at around 13 times EBITDA of £60m in the year to March 2016. We analyse the deal, which is a bet on West European governments increasing the outsourcing of medical services.
November 16, 2016

FREE BLOG More woe for care giants

The bigger the care home group, the worse its performance, is the broad rule from data we've sourced from the UK’s Care Quality Commission, which sheds light on the country’s on-going social care crisis.
November 11, 2016

Life close to UK acquisition

Life Healthcare, the big South African hospital group with an operation in Poland and stake in Max Healthcare, the big Indian hospital group, is close to purchasing an asset in the UK, says a source close to the deal. South African analysts say it’s looking at a niche market with a component of public sector outsourcing. We look at who.
November 11, 2016

Cinven still in the race for Unilabs?

Although Cinven is reportedly out of the picture for French reference lab Cerba, one analyst says it is likely that the group is still looking at buying clinical diagnostics player Unilabs.
November 11, 2016

Cambian surrenders its adult care segment

UK care provider Cambian has hired banker Rothschild to sell off its adult care division – the most profitable and the one with the highest occupancy rates. The sale should cover Cambian's refinancing needs following two profit warnings and a breach in its debt covenants during the past year.
October 26, 2016
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