Embattled French elderly care firm Orpea may need to rebrand its Middle East expansion, a source close to to the company tells HBI, but not everyone agrees.
One of the largest French hospital groups has bought two facilities in Quebec where it says it will be able to build and open more for-profit hospitals something that is now impossible in France.
French elderly care giant Korian has opened a new senior living complex in partnership with holiday resort provider Club Med. The luxury complex will include a restaurant from Michelin star chef Pierre Gagnaire.
Digital health and AI are finally demonstrably making huge savings in healthcare delivery costs in many ways, said several speakers at HBI 2022, citing examples of 50% savings in primary care and counselling.
According to a digital healthcare expert at HBI 2022, we may as well all stop trying to predict where telehealth company valuations are likely to go over the next couple of years. It simply isn't possible.
Hospitals are racing to cut deals to sell their data - and those able to package it and find the right partners quick enough could find themselves with a substantial market advantage.
The Spanish government has put forward a draft bill to strengthen its NHS system, and wean it off the private sector. A well-placed source at HBI 2022 tells us that for-profits are so entrenched and vital to Spain's NHS system that attempts to remove them would be too catastrophic, meaning a wholesale removal is highly unlikely. The bill still needs to pass the legislature before it becomes law.
At the HealthTech Summit in London, Ali Parsa, CEO of US-listed-telehealth group Babylon, clashed with Kevin Ryan, CEO of New York investment fund AlleyCorp, over the level of threat the current economic climate poses to digital health companies.
Metropolis Healthcare, the big Indian diagnostic and pathology group, is determined to forestall potential predators despite talk of a $1bn joint bid from hospital chain Apollo and conglomerate Adani Group.
Despite its recent share price falls, highly acquisitive Spanish laboratory diagnostic group Atrys Health is to buy Bienzobas for €76.3m, a Spanish company which provides oncology services to insurance companies and hospital groups.
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