UK-based digital health company Babylon has hired a trio of new senior management personnel from Amazon, Expedia and Brex. The tech unicorn says the new leadership will work on US-based growth this year.
Centene has become the UK's largest provider (by people covered) of primary care after its subsidiary Operose Health acquired a group of 37 GP practices in London.
UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurance firm in the United States, has appointed a new CEO. Andrew Witty will take the helm from outgoing CEO David Wichmann, following his three-year tenure.
Imaging AI solutions which can read images just as well as radiologists are now demonstrably effective medical products that will revolutionise the medical imaging industry forever. $1.5bn in VC funding has been ploughed into companies developing solutions whose tech promises to transform diagnosis and improve operational efficiency. We talk to seven of them who've commercialised products in 2019/20, operators using them, and look at the sector in detail in this long-read feature.
Ping An and Teladoc revealed their plans for global expansion at HBI 2020. The former says it's hard to leave such a big domestic market as China but has sights set on SE Asia and 'the developing world'. Teladoc is focused on Europe, Brazil and also on Ping An's home turf, China! Both are now capable of delivering full acuity care and have driven their insights using some of healthcare's largest datasets.
The for-profit hospital sector is moving slowly but inexorably towards value and outcome-linked reimbursement and the role for insurers within that, if there is one, is far from clear. That was the message from HBI 2020's 'Hospitals: The balance of power with payors' session where the CEOs of Mediclinic International and Steward Health Care discussed the topic with an ex-UnitedHealth Group executive.
Research from equity research and strategy firm Jeffries in the US and UK suggests there is still a marked reluctance among a significant proportion of the population to embrace the telehealth revolution - even during a pandemic.
Why do the prices of medical procedures vary so much globally? We talk to Jussi Rantanen, CEO at Strand Medical, a consultancy that specialises in analysing the cost and the quality of care internationally. An orthopaedic surgeon, here is his take on the differences.
HBI hears that CVC is frontrunner to buy international IVF chain Eugin as parent company NMC Health's administrators Alvarez and Marsal looks to complete a lender-led sale of the group by Spring 2021.
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