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Interview: Thierry Chiche, CEO, Elsan

HBI talks to the CEO of Elsan, France's second-largest private hospital group and the largest private equity-owned one by revenue outside of the US, as it approaches its sixth - and possibly final - year of ownership by CVC. In this wide-ranging interview, Chiche discusses the group's strategy, the French market and exclusively reveals its latest acquisition.

Interview: Marcin Lukasiewicz, MD Hospital Services Poland, Medicover

HBI talks to Marcin Lukasiewicz, managing director for listed pan-CEE healthcare group Medicover's Polish hospital division, a c.€100m business. What are the prospects for the private Polish hospital market, considering the virulently anti-private sector PiS government was just re-elected for another four years?

Interview: Rajesh Rao, CEO, IndusHealth

US healthcare is so prohibitively expensive that not only are employers paying for employees to have surgery abroad and covering all costs - they are paying the employees thousands of dollars as an incentive to go too! HBI speaks to the CEO of a company trying to grow the US employer-funded medical travel segment, who sees opportunities for providers in Europe and Latin America.

Interview: Carlos Fernández de Araoz, partner and head of senior housing at Azora

Spanish real-estate investor Azora created a listed healthcare investment arm, Adriano Care, this summer. The REIT has just acquired its first assets and plans to invest €250m in Spanish senior residential care. We speak to Azora's head of senior housing, Carlos Fernández de Araoz, about the market, business strategy and future plans for Adriano.

Interview: Charles-Antoine van Aelst, Chief Investment Officer, Aedifica

European REIT Aedifica has been expanding aggressively in Germany and is planning its first acquisition in the Finnish market. We speak to the group's chief investment officer about its strategy and what makes an attractive market.

Interview: Albert Fernandez, CEO, Healthcare Activos (ex-PJT Partners)

We talk to Albert Fernandez, former managing director for Healthcare Services in Europe at advisory firm PJT Partners and now CEO of Spain's largest healthcare property investor Healthcare Activos. In this wide-ranging interview, he shares his thoughts on fixed rental inflators, the Spanish market, and the internationalisation of Europe's hospital sector.

Interview: Anders Lönnberg, Politician, Health Care expert, Sweden

Joyously replete with war stories lost and won, Lönnberg, a combative diabetic and social democratic politician has spent the past thirty years fighting for change in health care. So what has he learnt about how health care works? And what is the solution?

Interview: Pierre-Emmanuel Bercegeay, CEO, Ouihelp

This week we interview the CEO of French domiciliary care start-up Ouihelp, who is sceptical about patient-facing digital innovation in the sector. His comments come at a time when digital solutions are being widely explored as the key to improving everything from patient engagement, service accessibility and preventive healthcare.

Interview: Abhay Soi, Chairman, Max Healthcare 

An outsider who doesn’t believe in “old answers” and wants to ‘’do things differently’’, Soi, 46, has big plans for the about-to-be-merged Max and Radiant businesses. The large Indian hospital chain is backed by private equity firm KKR-with 12 large and metro-based hospitals and 4 day-care centres, with 2019-20 expected sales of INR 4,200 crores (US$631m), making it second only to Apollo He talks exclusively to HBI about his plans and where he sees growth. 

Interview with WebMD: We have no plans to become a diagnostics tool

WebMD, the world's largest health information website, just got even larger with the acquisition of its close rival Aptus Health. HBI speaks to Jeremy Schneider, the company's group general manager, about whether the platform could ever become a healthcare provider, the acquisition and its ambitions outside of the US. 

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