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Digital coaching start-up Liva Healthcare raises €24.5m

Digital coaching group Liva Healthcare has raised €24.5m, led by Verlinvest, as it targets expansion into Germany and Benelux states. CEO Andre Sode tells HBI that providers using the tool can better monitor up to five times more patients annually.
January 7, 2021

Europe’s orthopaedic implant industry being transformed by innovation, regulation, and price pressure

As healthcare becomes ever more personalised it’s impacting specialised markets, such as orthopaedics. This piece, authored by Alina Trabattoni, Dr Kristoffer Kenta, and Dr Leonid Shapiro of  health and social care consultancy Candesic, reviews how things are evolving in this pan-EU market after speaking to implant manufacturers, surgeons and patients, and reviewing clinical and patient recorded outcomes.
January 7, 2021

Fresenius Helios buys Eugin, Elsan buys C2S

German and Spanish for-profit hospital operator Fresenius Helios has acquired global IVF operator Eugin from in-administration NMC Health, while French number two hospital group Elsan has bought smaller competitor C2S. What does the deal pricing for both say about relative valuations in the two sectors and any COVID impact? 
December 22, 2020

HBI 2020: Lessons on reaching the patient

An insurer, an integrated healthcare provider and a telehealth player are three providers with very different experiences of being able to reach the patient. HBI looks at four tangible lessons from Aetna, Medicover and Kry from HBI 2020.
December 22, 2020

HBI 2020: Hospital CEOs focus on digital, the care continuum and culture 

To a remarkable extent, hospitals CEOs whether in Europe, China or Emerging Markets share the same goals around extending their patient offering forwards into primary and back into chronic and rehabilitation using digital health to achieve this. And the one thing they all know they need to get right is culture.
December 21, 2020

HBI 2020: Opportunities for AI are in non-clinical space

Most of the ongoing research into healthcare AI is in the clinical space. However, there are plenty of non-clinical tasks, like the protocols and positioning of MRIs, in which AI can boost productivity by 30-50%.
December 21, 2020

HBI 2020: Emerging Markets – local trumps medical tourism

The IFC said at HBI 2020 that medical tourism in emerging markets is unlikely to normalise until the end of 2021. Providers say they are already doubling and tripling plans to build in domestic markets, rather than bringing patients to tourism hubs. 
December 21, 2020

HBI 2020: Data drives Ping An and Teladoc’s global expansion

Ping An and Teladoc revealed their plans for global expansion at HBI 2020. The former says it's hard to leave such a big domestic market as China but has sights set on SE Asia and 'the developing world'. Teladoc is focused on Europe, Brazil and also on Ping An's home turf, China! Both are now capable of delivering full acuity care and have driven their insights using some of healthcare's largest datasets.
December 21, 2020
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