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Interview: Ralph Hefti

We look at why dentistry could develop into a series of international chains, rather like the big audit firms. How is dentistry changing and consolidating? Who better to ask than Hefti, who has recently finished a five year stint as CEO of Adent Cliniques Dentaires, the largest French Swiss dental chain.
February 18, 2014

SHL Telemedicine buys almeda

Listed Israeli telehealth provider SHL Telemedicine has purchased German player almeda GmbH. Does this indicate accelerating action in chronic disease management, a market that has, for years, made big promises but failed to deliver big numbers?
July 9, 2013

Healthcare Reform – Opportunity or Threat? Presentation, Nicolaus Henke, Global Leader of the Healthcare Systems and Services Practice, McKinsey

Nicolaus has unrivaled access to, and experience of, European payors. He examines the reform trajectory and likely budget growth in different European countries and considers what impact this will have for private hospitals, outsourcers and specialist service providers. Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2013, New Models for Challenging Times.
March 15, 2013

Vertical integration way forward for telehealth

In telehealth, vertical integration is the way forward. So thinks Moonray Health, the healthcare arm of Fidelity International. It has just bought a majority stake in Wiltshire Medical Services, a British out-of-hours services provider to family doctors, and merged it with Telehealth Solutions, which provides telehealth technology. This model of integration will allow tech-challenged organisations to deploy telehealth painlessly. Moonray boss Tim Clover expects the UK government to incentivise payors to put 100,000 patients on telehealth, soon creating a market worth many tens of millions.
January 14, 2013

New insurer uses foreign hospitals to cut prices

Passport2Health, a new UK insurer, claims to cut the price of healthcare insurance to people in the UK by at least 30% and often 50% by using foreign hospitals. CEO and insurance veteran Frank Levene claims that Passport2Health, backed by Lloyds syndicate Sirius International has slashed costs by striking innovative deals with top European hospitals.
July 19, 2012

Interview: Nicky Lieberman, Head of Community Medicine, Clalit

Clalit, Israel’s largest HMO, claims to have cut the cost of treating diabetes by 40% per patient in the last 6-7 years. We talk to head of community medicine, Nicky Lieberman. Given that diabetes already swallows around a tenth of West European healthcare budgets, this is an extraordinary claim. And this is not some tiny pilot. Clalit has 14 hospitals, 1,400 community outpatient clinics and its own pharmacy and diagnostic networks serving 4 million members.
May 23, 2012

Interview: Erez Aloy, Co-CEO SHL Telehealth Medicine

SHL is one of the few telehealth companies to achieve tens of millions of euros of sales. Yet the Israeli company, listed on the Swiss stock exchange saw sales fall 19% to $42m with EBITDA down from $11.4m to $9.1m in 2011.  We talk to co-CEO Erez Alroy about why growth is so difficult, how SHL saves German insurers €5,000 a year per patient and how it sells individual subscriptions to Israelis....
March 28, 2012
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