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Interview: Mats Rönnback, CEO, Doctagon

The big idea at Helsinki-based Doctagon is to build innovative new services around home calls by doctors. We talk to CEO Mats Rönnback about the new ideas which are powering the 2005 start up to forecast 2011 sales of €11m, up from €7.5m in 2010. He tells us why he doesn’t like modern technology and how a telehealth project led to a 70% fall in hospitalisation in a care home. We also look at his TV ads....
April 1, 2011

Interview: Eystein Hauge, chief medical officer, Teres Medical Group

We interview Eystein Hauge, chief medical officer at Teres Medical Group, about the plastic surgery and orthopaedic market in the Nordic region and on why Teres can carry out routine operations at an average price of half the Norwegian public sector tariff....
December 7, 2010

FREE BLOG How good are healthcare service companies at PR?

I guess I am well placed to answer this question as I spend most of my life trying to contact people in large healthcare groups. People sometimes ask me how I get the information and the answer is persistence, not magic. And, yes, I might use this to settle some scores – but it shows what I go through on your behalf, dear reader...
July 14, 2010

Interview: Dr Martin Henrichs, Credit Suisse

We talk to Dr Martin Henrichs, who has covered the healthcare services sector in EMEA for the past 10 years, first for JPMorgan, and since 2007, at Credit Suisse. Credit Suisse, together with RMB/Morgan Stanley, was the joint bookrunner on the IPO of Life Healthcare, the South African hospital chain. The largest-ever healthcare services IPO in the EMEA region, Life Healthcare eventually raised Rand 5.2bn ($683m), less than the Rand 8.04bn originally planned, due to stock market volatility....
June 16, 2010

Interview: Matti Bergendahl, CEO Ambea

In a surprise move, last week saw Matti Bergendahl replace Ralph Riber as chief executive at Ambea, the big Nordic healthcare and care group. The change follows the arrival of new owners private equity groups KKR and Triton. It is becoming clear that their plans for Ambea really are Pan-European. We interview Bergendahl....
June 9, 2010

FREE BLOG The $985 genetic variant test

A Cambridge academic told me about a mad and brilliant Icelander, Dr Kári Stefánsson, who is pioneering genetic variant testing for the masses based upon the famous Icelandic database...
March 10, 2010

FREE BLOG Big private equity deals are back

Big private equity groups are back in the market and bagging big healthcare services groups. Bridgepoint has just announced the purchase of Care UK, the healthcare and care group, in the UK. Triton has just bought Ambea, the biggest healthcare and care group in the Nordic region...
March 4, 2010

FREE BLOG Opportunities in imaging

I've been mulling over the opportunities in medical imaging over the last few weeks. It can look like a very dangerous business...
February 23, 2010

FREE BLOG Teleradiology – a small business having a big impact

Teleradiology, where radiologists interpret images from medical scanners in a remote centre is beginning to have a big impact in Germany, as well as the UK and the Nordic region. The technology has the potential to hugely increase radiologist productivity – in the USA radiologists routinely interpret 20-25 images an hour at operator Virtual Radiologic...
November 22, 2009

FREE BLOG Imaging opportunities in Europe

Spending on medical imaging in Europe is set to grow by over 50% in the next decade, according to GE Healthcare. Add to that the fact that many small and mid-sized hospitals are set to outsource their imaging departments (companies like Alliance Medical say they can normally cut public sector costs by 30-40%) and it looks like a great investment opportunity…
November 12, 2009
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