At the recent healthcare insurance conference in Prague, HBI heard about insurees' concerns by age demographic - and how insurers were striving to address them.
Germany's health minister Karl Lauterbach is planning to shift as much as 25% of care which is currently done on an inpatient basis to outpatient, in the country's biggest health care reform in 20 years. But Germany is already unique amongst the big 5 in that it already spends slightly more on ambulatory care than inpatient care.
The UK's Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) has released its private market update for September 2022, showing the state of private pay in the UK. As is expected with NHS backlogs at a record high, private healthcare is performing very well compared to pre-pandemic levels.
At the recent Healthcare Procurement Summit in Brussels, multinational conglomerate Philips set out the risks posed to supply chains by climate change - and the steps it felt procurers should take.
Health care software company Radar Healthcare has ranked developed countries by the affordability of their health care, finding Luxembourg to be the most affordable and Greece to be the least affordable.
Health care operators are being heavily targeted by ransomware fraudsters. Research from cybersecurity firm Barracuda suggests attacks tripled over the past 12 months, compared to last year. Two thirds of health care organisations were hit by ransomware in 2021 - up from a third in 2020 - according to a survey covering 31 countries, by software security firm Sophos which released its annual report on ransomware in June.
Both private and public/statutory expenditure on health care grew substantially over the course of the 2010s across the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. But public/statutory expenditure growth was both significantly higher and less volatile.
After peaking earlier this year, testing volumes for Covid in Europe have fallen back to almost the level they were at in the first months of the pandemic.
Most major listed healthcare groups saw a fall in their share prices over the course of the first half of 2022, likely due at least in part to the ever-more-imminent prospect of global recession. The sector hasn't suffered as badly as some others, however.
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