Healthcare Europa speaks to Jos de Blok , CEO of Buurtzorg, the Netherlands-based homecare specialist, to find out more about its business model and the unique difficulties in operating in the Dutch market.
Pan-European hospital operator Capio has made further inroads into elderly and primary care provision with the acquisition of Swedish group Legevisitten.
Private equity giant Advent International has bought an 'out-of-hospital' and homecare group in Germany amidst a spate of similar deals, as gases giant Linde sells off assets in order to complete its merger with US counterpart Praxair.
In an effort to help women from low socio-economic backgrounds gain meaningful employment, Salus founded Instituto Salus, a nursing and healthcare college situated in a poor area. To match trained staff with medical services sold by its service providers, Salus has created its own job placement app to help increase efficiency in service delivery.
A quiet healthcare revolution is taking place in the Czech Republic. For the first time in almost two decades, providers and payors have reached an agreement on fees without the need for intervention by the Ministry of Health. Healthcare Europa speaks to an operator who says this is great news for private providers and a large step towards the creation of a more open market.
The non-medicalised homecare services market in the Netherlands could be set for rapid expansion, following a decision by the Dutch Ministry of Health to standardise and limit co-payments to municipalities.
A Dutch digital start up is now serving 100,000 patients in its own home market and has expanded to four other countries in Europe and is looking to the Middle East next. It claimed to cut readmission rates for its patients by 65% at the HIMSS 2018 conference.
A dutch digital start up is now serving 100,000 patients in its own home market and has expanded to four other countries. It claimed to cut healthcare costs for its patients by 65% at the HIMSS 2018 conference.
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