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Maven invests in UK consumer healthcare company Covestus

UK PE firm Maven Capital Partners has invested in Covestus, a UK company that owns consumer healthcare brands.

July 26, 2024

Use of AI and robots in cancer diagnosis and surgeries — an interview with Dr. T. Manohar of Apollo Institute of Urology, India

The healthcare sector is increasingly relying on AI and robots, from diagnosis to surgeries. HBI spoke with Dr. T. Manohar, Director & Chief of Urology Services at Apollo Institute of Urology, Uro Oncology, and Kidney Transplantation, about the use of AI in cancer diagnosis.

July 23, 2024

Learna’s new postgraduate course on AI for healthcare workers

Online medical education platform Learna has put together a postgraduate programme on AI use in medicine, aimed at healthcare professionals who want to brush up their understanding and skills in how AI works and how they can make use of it. Dr Anish Kotecha, Learna’s Head of Medical Education, spoke to us about the motivation for creating the course and what it covers.

July 22, 2024

EU Artificial Intelligence Act comes into law

The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act), was published last Friday in the Official Journal of the European Union, the final step in bringing the Act into law.

July 19, 2024

UK’s largest plastic surgery group SK:N goes bust

SK:N, the UK’s largest plastic surgery provider, has gone bankrupt.

July 19, 2024

Synlab finally taken off stock market by Cinven

Shares of Synlab, Europe’s largest labs group, stopped trading on July 12, marking the official completion of PE firm Cinven’s take-private.

July 19, 2024

HBI News Round Up, 19 July 2024

In this HBI News Round Up we look at Indian healthcare financing startup Icanheal’s latest fundraising, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust’s acquisition of a hospital currently run by UK private hospital operator Spire, the suspension of a surgeon by Spire for patient harm, French nursing home giant emeis’ sale of €24 million of real estate agreement in Portugal, funding house Unicorn India’s partial exit from medtech startup Sascan, London-based healthcare startup Huma’s fundraising to expand its AI-driven healthcare platform, and the construction of a new private hospital in Budapest, Hungary.

July 19, 2024

GE Healthcare partners with Cardiff’s Intelligent Ultrasound to integrate AI and enhance ultrasound portfolio

GE HealthCare, the American multinational medical technology company, has signed a £40.5 million deal to acquire the AI-driven ultrasound business of Intelligent Ultrasound Group, a Welsh holding company specialising in ultrasound simulation devices for medical training. The deal is expected to close in Q4 2024.

July 19, 2024

What innovations are health tech investors most excited about in 2024?

Healthcare is a sector in which it can be hard to innovate. Regulations are tight and risk aversion is rife. This is understandable — justifiable, even — given lives are at stake. But it means the sector doesn’t see much creative destruction in the models it uses for delivering care.

July 19, 2024

South Korea accepts resignations of over 10,000 junior doctors, fuelling concerns over low doctor-patient ratio

South Korea has lately made headlines due to ~10,000 trainee doctors going on strike. They are protesting against a government proposal to increase admissions to medical schools. Following the July 15 deadline for junior doctors to return to work, the Ministry of Health and Welfare has started to accept resignations, as the doctors on strike have not responded, as reported by The Korean Herald.

July 18, 2024

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