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$20bn merger could transform Brazilian healthcare market

A $20bn merger between two giants of Brazilian healthcare, listed HMOs Hapvida Participacoes e Investimentos SA and Notre Dame Intermedica Participacoes SA (GNDI), will create one of the world’s biggest companies providing verticalized health-care solutions. HBI looks at the deal in detail, and talks to a Brazil-based operator to find out more.
March 4, 2021

IBM’s flight from healthcare shows AI must be local

IBM is on the retreat from its decade long AI in healthcare project: a multi-billion-dollar buy-and-build strategy to gather billions of data points fed into supercomputer Watson. Critics say the business has been unprofitable, overpromised and questioned how fit for purpose it is. HBI gets the inside track.
February 25, 2021

EMEA hospital sector finishes 2020 strongly

Private hospital operators across Europe, the Middle East and South Africa had a good last few months of trading in what was a turbulent 2020, but the start of 2021 looks tougher. We talk to operators across the region.
February 25, 2021

Carlyle to exit Ameos in H2

Private equity firm Carlyle will exit German and Swiss acute/psychiatric hospital operator Ameos Group in the second half of this year, a spokesperson for Ameos tells HBI. Reports say that CEO Dr Axel Paeger and London-listed Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) will become controlling shareholders.
February 22, 2021

Ameos sale/refinancing: Speculation mounts as group denies discussions

Despite emphatic denials from the company itself that it is for sale, multiple sources continue to tell HBI that DACH psychiatry and acute hospital group Ameos is in discussion with potential suitors and that documentation preparing for refinancing and/or sale has been drawn up. HBI speaks to an operator source, a consultant, and the company to find out more.
February 18, 2021

NHS reform could give patients choice to seek private care

Population health is at the centre of a new NHS England reform that will give purchasing power to local, integrated health bodies across the UK. At first glance, the white paper points to less work for the private sector, but a new procurement system could tip it towards the system seen in Europe, where the local body often acts as a payor and the patient has a much wider choice of provider.
February 11, 2021

Penta to sell stake in hospital business; IMs out by March

CEE private equity firm Penta Investments is seeking a new investor for its hospital division, Penta Hospitals International (PHI), and aims to launch a process with investment memorandums (IMs) out by the end of February, investment director Václav Jirků tells HBI. He discusses the reason for the sale, including international expansion, and the current political turmoil surrounding Penta and its healthcare business.
February 11, 2021

Elsan to “refrain from sizeable acqusitions for 12-18 months” after C2S deal

Credit rating agency Moody's understands that France's largest for-profit acute hospital group Elsan will "refrain from sizeable debt-funded acquisitions such as Groupe C2S over the next 12 to 18 months and focus on bolt-on acquisitions," after downgrading its debt rating outlook to 'negative' following an increase in leverage from its the deal. We talk to Elsan and L.E.K. France.
February 11, 2021
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