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Is 2024 the year of recovery?

As we kick off the new year, HBI speaks to healthcare market experts across a variety of countries and subsectors, and hears what they think is in store for 2024. An election-heavy year could herald changes – but will any be enough to stave off the challenges of workforce, inflation, and soaring costs?

Threestones buys Spanish care homes from DomusVi

Spanish nursing home operator DomusVi has sold five of its Spanish homes to Luxembourg-based fund manager Threestones Capital Management for around €35m through its TSC Eurocare IV fund, marking Threestones largest acquisition in Spain to date. DomusVi will continue to manage the residences.

Strikes and workforce malcontent set the tone for 2024

One week into the new year, and it’s already painfully clear that personnel problems persist. As a tide of industrial action by healthcare workers sweeps across the UK, HBI speaks to two market experts for their predictions about the workforce crisis going into 2024.

Pakistani workers targeted by Saudi hospital groups

Recent reports have suggested that Saudi Arabian healthcare groups are increasingly uninterested in hiring foreign workers due to the policy of Saudization, but HBI hears this is not always the case, with two major hospital groups looking to increase their Pakistani workforces.

ICG buys back Cura

Fresenius-owned Australian hospital provider Cura Day Hospitals is returning to familiar hands. Six years on from selling Cura, London-listed private equity firm Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) is now acquiring the group again, alongside a consortium.

Gilde Healthcare acquires stake in Swiss Dental Solutions

Capital investor Gilde Healthcare acquires a majority stake in Swiss Dental Solutions (SDS) through its private equity fund. SDS aims to accelerate its growth in both Europe and the US and become a world leader in the emerging market of ceramic dental implants.

Interview: Kelly Hudson, Chief Strategy Officer, Lilli

The opportunities afforded by advances in technology to assist with caring for the elderly are huge, but much of the focus remains on reactive tools. HBI speaks to Kelly Hudson, chief strategy officer of UK remote technology company Lilli to hear why the focus needs to be more on proactive solutions.

The protocol used in diagnostic imaging is highly vulnerable to cyberattack

The way images are digitally stored and transmitted in diagnostic imaging is highly vulnerable to cyberattack, because the protocol which the industry uses is very old and doesn’t require data to be encrypted. HBI chats with Christiaan Beek, senior director of threat analytics at cybersecurity firm Rapid7, to find out more.

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