Abu Dhabi will work with Israel's largest payor-provider Clalit and its largest hospital Sheba Medical Centre in two separate MoUs that promise to work on population health management, genome sequencing and digital health services.
Russia's second-largest healthcare operator by revenue, European Medical Center (EMC), has announced an intention to float in Moscow but will not be raising any proceeds from the process.
Private equity firms Coalition Capital Partners and Warburg Pincus are reportedly short-listed to acquire South East Asian healthcare services provider Fullerton Healthcare Group for $1 billion.
Progress made on the digital and data front continues to raise hopes of truly integrated healthcare, but that promise relies on infrastructure which can support it. At digital healthcare conference HIMSS21, a panel of European experts warned that in countries like Spain and the UK, infrastructure issues are the biggest impediment to progress.
Marcol-backed digital health platform HealthHero has bought French telehealth player Qare, meaning it joins the small ranks of pan-European telehealth players.
Centene has become the UK's largest provider (by people covered) of primary care after its subsidiary Operose Health acquired a group of 37 GP practices in London.
Italy's COVID-19 recovery plan contains €18bn for homecare, integrated health facilities and telemedicine that can be run by the private sector in a whole-scale reform of the country's healthcare system. Meanwhile, a new budget in the UK failed to allot any new funds for its overstretched health and social service.
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