Jos Lamers, former CEO of Nucletron, has replaced Jean-Paul Rigaudeau as CEO of Unilabs, the international lab and imaging chain. Lamers nearly took the same position at imaging group Euromedic a year ago.
Denmark is set to massively liberalise its primary care sector. This comes after a ground-breaking primary and outpatient care contract, worth DKK 200m (€26.82m) per annum, was successfully tendered by the Sjaelland region in May 2013 and won by Aleris. Is Denmark set to follow Sweden in creating an active role for the private sector? Falck thinks so: the emergency services and clinic provider has just acquired medical recruitment company Skandinavisk Halsovard. We talk to CEO of Falck’s healthcare services division Jan Steenhard, Skandinavisk’s continuing Director Borje Eriksson and former Global Health Partner and Capio CEO Per Batelson.
Could recruitment be a way into public healthcare systems for private providers? Falck has bet on peripheral services - ambulance provision and recruitment - as a way to build relationships with Nordic healthcare systems. Can providers elsewhere do the same?
Sana has pipped Helios: it is now favoured to win the contract to functionally privatise Offenbach Hospital. We look at the terms, and whether there will be more privatisation in Germany and its neighbours.
Nicolaus has unrivaled access to, and experience
of, European payors. He examines the reform
trajectory and likely budget growth in different
European countries and considers what impact this will have for private hospitals, outsourcers and specialist service providers. Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2013, New Models for Challenging Times.
Falck, the big ambulance and fire engine outsourcing group, headquartered in Denmark has expanded its occupational health arm in Denmark with the acquisition of PreviaSundhed from TryghedsGruppen.
Home dialysis can cost as little as half the price of in-centre treatment and is often preferred by patients. We talk to Eero Hokinen of Helsinki University Hospital and Dr. Wim van Biesen at Ghent University Hospital about why only 11% of European dialysis patients get treatment at home and where the market will go.
Despite a lurch to the left with its new government, Denmark looks set to outsource more healthcare services, particularly MRI, despite attacking private hospitals.
Where and how fast will e-prescriptions take off? What impact will they have? We talk to Fabian Torres, Global Healthcare Director at IT and business process outsourcing firm Steria, which has been involved in the field for over two decades.
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