Germany-based healthcare conglomerate Fresenius’ restructuring plans seem to be gathering steam, as HBI hears the sale of its Spain-based fertility clinic Eugin is imminent.
AI and big data are primed to improve clinical outcomes and standards for radiologists as well as the health care sector as a whole, but how far along the journey to automated care delivery are we? In an HBI 2023 panel discussion ‘AI and Big Data: Outcomes and Automation,’ panellists explored how automation could speed up diagnosis to treatment from 2 weeks to 15 minutes.
Unlisted Spanish hospital group HM Hospitales’ announced its FY22 results which saw revenue up 7.5% to €617m, as groups battle for second place in the market.
Oncology has come a long way in just a few decades to the point where cancer care is increasingly understood as a chronic condition, but more capacity is still needed. At HBI 2023, oncology panelists debated where the best opportunities for growth in the sector lie. Here were some of the takeaways:
Between resource shortages and growing waiting lists, efficient operations are hard to maintain. In HBI 2023’s panel discussion, “Seeking efficiency: how tech is impacting operations”, a panel explored how tech is an invaluable investment in the future of care.
With energy prices soaring, material costs rising, and care increasingly turning digitised, panellists at HBI 2023 London explored what investment in brick and mortar looks like in the current climate as part of a session titled ‘investing in healthcare property’. Here we highlight the four key takeaways from the session.
Italian industrialists have a penchant for investing in health care services. And it is striking how many of the major groups in Italy are controlled by wealthy families.
Regulatory changes are one of the major concerns among players in healthcare services. A busy panel of lawyers, operators and investors considered this thorny issue at HBI 2023, with a general feeling that even the strictest of regulations can provide some kind of opportunity, and that private funding is so essential a component in health care today, it cannot be legislated away.
What does effective partnering look like? In a keynote session at HBI 2023 entitled ‘How to partner better’, Neil Wright, commercial director at Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust shared his experiences.
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