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Interview: David Hadley, CEO, Mediclinic Middle East

EMEA hospital group Mediclinic International is undergoing its last substantial capital project in the UAE for the foreseeable future, Middle East CEO David Hadley tells HBI, as the group switches expansionary focus to neighbouring Saudi Arabia. We discuss the two markets and the reasons for the segment's recent $600m+ impairment charge.

Interview: Pablo Pantaleoni, VP of global strategy, Headspace

Headspace started a decade ago as a meditation app founded by a Buddhist monk. It is now one of the world's most successful consumer B2C businesses with 65m downloads, 2m paying subscribers and north of $50m revenue. HBI speaks to Pablo Pantaleoni who is leading the early stages of clinical trials for digital therapeutics (DTx) through its medical subsidiary, Headspace Health.

Interview: Arjan Toor, CEO, Cigna Europe

Cigna now describes itself as “a global health service company” rather than an insurer and has reorganised its European operations. Toor has recently been promoted to CEO Europe. He says that the insurer, which has 15% (US$840m) of its revenue in Europe, doesn't want to verticalise through owning primary care providers but wants instead to provide an end-to-end user experience.

Interview: André Schmidt, CEO, Median Kliniken

Dr Schmidt gives HBI the inside view of Germany's €9-10bn rehabilitation sector in the pandemic months, from how activity dropped to what financial support it got, to its medium-term outlook. Are digital therapeutics apps like Kaia Health, which recently raised $26m, a threat?

Interview: Daniel Soukup, head of EUC Virtual Clinic

The Czech Republic's largest primary care and occupational healthcare provider by revenue, EUC, has been leading the charge in bringing digital health care to the country. Daniel Soukup, head of its Virtual Clinic, tells HBI that while the service has before been only for its private-pay patients, it is starting to work much closer with public insurers to bring telemedicine to more people.

Interview: Katharina Juenger, CEO, TeleClinic

For the first time in Germany publicly-insured patients can go straight to an app to have a teleconsultation without paying out of pocket. Small start-up TeleClinic is the first to launch a reimbursable service, which comes as the country's largest statutory insurer launches its own telehealth solution and KRY and Doctolib enter the market. TeleClinic CEO tells HBI it hopes to hit 100,000 consultations this year.

Interview: Mario Paterlini, CEO, Sapio Group

We talk to the CEO of pan-European industrial and health gases and homecare operator Sapio Group. It aims to grow healthcare from 50% now, to 65% of its revenue by 2022, and has been buying homecare companies across the continent to that end. 

Interview: Rodolphe Eurin, CEO, La Tour Medical Group

How do you grow 5-10% year-on-year in the flat Swiss hospital market? We talk to the CEO of La Tour Medical Group, a large for-profit hospital in Geneva. Eurin claims it is the only one to put value-based healthcare at the top of its strategy and has unique payment-for-outcomes agreements with the medtech industry.

Interview: Dr Hugo Stephenson, CEO, Induction Healthcare

The Induction Switch app is used by the majority of hospital doctors in the UK but its owner has only very recently started generating revenue a year after launching on the AIM. That's despite a userbase stretching South Africa, Australia and the USA. Its CEO, an entrepreneur who has founded no less than three health tech companies, talks to HBI about how it plans to turn free-using customers into revenue-generating customers.

Interview: Tony Veverka, CEO, Transform

HBI talks to Tony Veverka, CEO of cosmetic surgery specialist Transform Hospital Group, about his business, and the market pre-and (speculatively) post-COVID.

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