Nurses and midwives employed by Ramsay Health Care, the multinational Australian private hospital group, walked out for 24 hours across New South Wales on Tuesday to demand better pay and staffing.
Spire Healthcare, the UK’s largest for-profit hospital group, saw its shares jump 9% on the morning of Friday November 29, after rumours were published in the Indian press that Indian hospital group Narayana Health was looking to acquire it. The shares dropped back down again, however, after Narayana released a statement saying there is “no material information or event” requiring disclosure at this time.
George Murgatroyd, General Manager & Vice President at the Digital Technologies division of Medtronic, the world’s largest medtech company, shared his thoughts with HBI on how far we really need to go to effectively take the NHS from “analogue” to “digital”. Plus, what the role of Medtronic and medtech is in this reform, as demand for tech solutions in healthcare rises.
This week saw the latest event in HBI’s webinar series, “Scaling smart: how providers are leveraging new technologies for better diagnostic delivery”. The background to the event The purpose of the webinar was to explore the role that new digital tools, and artificial intelligence (AI) in particular, are playing in helping diagnostic providers to […]
This week’s infographic looks at the top 10 European countries allocating a significant portion of their healthcare budgets to preventative care. The infographic is based on data from the OECD’s Health at a Glance 2024 report. As private equity (PE) firms target consolidation in the preventative healthcare sector, Germany, the UK, and Austria rank as […]
Swiss Post, which also operates across communication (including digital information solutions for healthcare), retail, financial and passenger markets, has partnered with Trifork, a global technology partner, to develop a new cloud-based platform for a nation-wide electronic patient record (EPR).
FutureLife Group, a pan-European provider of IVF and genetics services co-owned by Luxembourg-based private equity firm CVC Capital Partners and Central Europe-based private equity firm Hartenberg Holding, has acquired Gynatal, a fertility clinic in Timisoara, Romania.
The ACES24 HBI Special Conference Report covers the inaugural ACES conference hosted in Paris by AI imaging company Incepto Medical and AI strategy firm RE:SOURCE Healthcare. The report shares the deliberations of the conference and explores how leading imaging providers are achieving significant returns from AI implementation, despite facing complex regulatory and organisational hurdles. The […]
Spanish REIT Healthcare Activos has acquired its first nursing home asset in Germany, and three new nursing homes in Belgium. Activos has acquired the propco of a nursing home located in Stuttgart, Germany. This is a new build with 88 individual rooms and 31 apartments and is operated by “the largest elderly care operator in […]
The ACES24 HBI Special Conference Report covers the inaugural ACES conference hosted in Paris by AI imaging company Incepto Medical and AI strategy firm RE:SOURCE Healthcare. The report shares the deliberations of the conference and explores how leading imaging providers are achieving significant returns from AI implementation, despite facing complex regulatory and organisational hurdles.
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