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Italy to start services in pharmacies

From next year some private pharmacies in Italy will be able to offer basic healthcare services as policymakers hope they become the first point of access.

French lab group seeks €400-500m sale

The owners of France's sixth biggest lab group Laborizon are reportedly selling a majority stake in the company, we hear, with first-round bids due Friday, September 27.

Affidea pulls Portuguese lab sales process

Pan-European imaging and outpatient group Affidea kicked off a process to sell its Portuguese lab business in 2018 but may have opted to retain it, HBI understands.

IDH to start mining lab data

Pan-African lab company Integrated Diagnostic Holdings (IDH) will soon start mining its database of 13m patients through a new subsidiary with the ultimate aim of layering extra services on top.

Unilabs under fire after missing testing targets

Stockholm's Health and Medical Administration has told Unilabs that it might have to fulfil the company's outsourcing tender with sub-contractors after long waiting lists emerged.

Integrated healthcare: What works, what doesn’t

What is integrated health care as practiced today in Europe? What can it deliver? And what are the barriers to its adoption>?  We look at the lessons from three large projects that have all run for over a decade - The Wigan Deal (UK), Tiohundra (Sweden) and Kinzigtal/OptiMedis (Germany). All three will present at the HBI Policy Summit, April 20-22, 2020, London. 

French healthcare companies hit by ransomware attacks

French hospital group Ramsay General de Santé has been hit by a ransomware attack affecting all 120 of its healthcare facilities. It comes as lab company Eurofins reveals the full financial implications of the ransomware attack it suffered two months ago.

Outsourcing boosts Sonic’s growth

Australian lab group Sonic Healthcare has seen outsourcing boost its organic growth in both the UK and Swiss markets, adding that it has acquisitions lined up in the €1bn German anatomical pathology market. Commentators say the company is the true consolidator of the German market. The group saw its strongest European growth in the UK […]

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