London-based private equity firm Columna Capital has acquired a majority stake in Evidenze Group, a pan-European outsourced pharma services company, from Madrid-based Buenavista Equity Partners.
European healthtech group Doctolib has entered the UK market through the acquisition of London-based startup Medicus. The company plans to invest over £100 million (~$136 million) in the UK as part of its expansion.
Speakers at HBI 2026 discussed how data is “not about simple dashboards”, but is something that can shape investment decisions, sometimes in a way that runs counter to intuition, on a panel entitled 'Building customer growth engines; The power of data and KPIs to drive investment decisions'.
Implementation of AI is more advanced in diagnostic imaging than any other part of healthcare. Two imaging providers presented case studies to illustrate how it is being used and providing immense benefits at HBI’s 2026 conference, in a session entitled ‘AI as a value creation lever: Case studies from diagnostics’.
Private equity firm Nord Holding has acquired a majority stake in the VisionmaxX Group, a German healthcare IT service provider. VisionmaxX provides IT services, including IT infrastructure, telematics, IT security, and digital practice solutions for German and Austrian dental practices, orthodontists, and oral and maxillofacial surgeons.
Proximie is a UK-headquartered healthtech company that has built a platform aimed at improving the way surgery is done and the way operating rooms (ORs) function. In the first few years of the company’s existence, it was essentially a telehealth platform for surgeons, helping them collaborate, guide and educate one another across the world via a video connection. But since HBI last interviewed Proximie's CEO and founder Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2023, it’s been transformed into a super-high-tech platform that uses ambient data capture and AI to optimise OR workflows and improve surgery outcomes.
Kooth is a UK-based digital mental health company that provides free-at-the-point-of-use (publicly reimbursed) support to teenagers and young people in the UK and the US. In a recent conversation with HBI, Kate Newhouse, CEO, explained the company’s ethos and why there is such a need for the kind of early-intervention mental health services it provides.
HBI spoke to PA Consulting’s digital healthcare expert, Andrew Earnshaw, about what the gap between NHS infrastructure and the growing demand for preventative care means for private healthcare and where the opportunity for private capital lies.
Medica, the UK’s largest teleradiology company, has bought one of its smaller competitors, Axon Diagnostics. HBI caught up with Andrew Cannon, Medica’s CEO, to discuss the acquisition and Medica’s plans for the future.
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