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Sana Kliniken sells procurement arm to Nordic Capital-backed Vivecti Group

Sana Kliniken, Germany’s third largest for-profit hospital group by revenue, is selling its procurement arm, Sana Einkauf, to Vivecti Group, a major German healthcare procurement platform that has been owned by private equity firm Nordic Capital since 2018. A procurement expert tells us this deal looks like “a desperate attempt to finally achieve the long-awaited exit for Nordic Capital”.

emeis to reduce net debt by €700m through real estate vehicle

Europe’s largest nursing home group emeis plans to raise hundreds of millions of euros to help pay down its huge pile of debt by partially divesting 68 properties it still owns. Rather than simply doing full sale-and-leasebacks of these properties, the group is creating a special real estate investment vehicle to hold the assets, which it will retain a stake in.

FREE BLOG CEO Club and CEO Survey for HBI 2026

The CEO of an international hospital group remarked to me earlier this week that there are some important personal characteristics one needs in order to be successful as a CEO working in healthcare: firstly that you need to be always optimistic, and secondly, to be a little bit crazy! 

Interview: Ranjan Singh, CEO and Co-founder, HealthHero

HealthHero is the largest telehealth provider in Europe. In the few years since being founded in 2019, it has managed to consistently grow its revenue at over 30% per annum and achieve a dominant position in four key European markets — the UK, France, Germany and Ireland, in a period when many other players trying to scale in this space have gone bust.

Top 5 elderly care (residential) providers in Europe by 2024 revenue

This week’s infographic covers the top five elderly care (residential) providers in Europe, ranked by their 2024 revenue. The data has been sourced from the HBI Intelligence database. Europe’s top four elderly care groups are all French players. Pan-European listed French group emeis leads the rankings with €5,636 million in revenue for 2024, followed closely […]

What Eko Health’s AI stethoscope can teach us about AI adoption in healthcare

An AI-powered digital stethoscope developed by a California-based medtech company called Eko Health has been found to detect heart conditions with significantly greater sensitivity than doctors using analogue stethoscopes in a trial with 200 UK GP practices. But the same study also found that 70% of these GP surgeries had stopped using them or were only using them infrequently a year after they were given them. In a conversation with HBI, Alfred Olivares and Nick Kovacev, who work for US technology consultancy HTEC, suggested some of the reasons for this, and the broader lessons for health tech companies trying to develop impactful AI tools.

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