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FREE BLOG Why is Italy attracting large European diagnostics groups?

In the past two months, SYNLAB, Cerba, Alliance Medical and LifeBrain, four major diagnostic service providers, have strengthened their presence in Italy through the acquisitions of small laboratory/imaging networks. But what is so attractive about Italy?
February 8, 2017

European labs turn to Italy

European laboratory services providers SYNLAB and Cerba are strengthening their position in Italy through the acquisitions of two medical centres networks in the north, in a race to become the main consolidator in the region.
February 8, 2017

Vashishta wants to do it all over again

Sanjeev Vashishta, former CEO of SRL, the largest international diagnostic group in India, speaks to us about his plans to build a new lab network, Path Kind, backed by Mankind Pharma Group, which he claims is India’s fourth largest pharmaceutical group.
February 8, 2017

MedLife buys Bucharest clinic operator Anima

Romanian healthcare services provider MedLife is buying Bucharest operator Anima, a group of six clinics providing outpatient services to public, private and corporate patients. We speak to Anima’s CEO Cristian Sas.
February 7, 2017

Aevis’ offer for LifeWatch likely to fail

An offer by the Swiss investor Aevis for the shares of telemedicine group LifeWatch will fail to reach its tender threshold of 67% of controlling equity, say investors.
February 6, 2017

French Competition Authority to examine Elsan-MediPole deal

The European Commission has referred the merger of French hospital groups Elsan and MédiPôle Partenaires to the French Competition Authority. The co-founder of Elsan, Dr Michel Bodkier, told Healthcare Europa the process is a formality; and there are calls for more involvement by the private sector in emergency medicine.
February 6, 2017

Digital insurers to dominate Asia

The insurance group Aviva’s recent sale of part of its Hong Kong business to internet giant Tencent proved digital is the destination for China’s insurers. But it’s in health insurance that “digitalisation” will show its true worth predicts Thalia Georgiou, founder of the consultancy Asia Care Group.
February 6, 2017

Iqarus completes first overseas deal with Afghan clinic

UK-based occupational health provider Iqarus, which specialises in “demanding and complex operating environments”, has made its first international acquisition in Afghanistan. We speak to CEO Tim Mitchell about its plans in the war-torn state, and whether Donald Trump’s immigration policy could slash the lucrative market in health screenings needed to get US visas.
February 3, 2017

Apollo Hospitals Dhaka slashes discharge times as it tackles a cultural issue

Apollo Hospitals Dhaka, a joint venture between its Indian namesake and the Bangladeshi STS Group, is Bangladesh’s first Joint Comission International accredited hospital. But Apollo’s chief of medical services Dr Prasad Muglikar tells Healthcare Nova it wasn’t costs or resources that were the main barrier to solving the problems of a lack of accountability and leadership on its wards – it was culture.
February 2, 2017
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