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Using remote solutions to monitor COVID-19 patients

Remote care provider Dignio has used its solution normally reserved for elderly and chronic management to track COVID-19 patients outside hospital. HBI speaks to the company's CEO and UK manager about how it adapted there and in Norway.
May 28, 2020

Norwegians hand care homes to the state

Nordic care groups Unicare and Norlandia are handing their for-profit nursing homes in Norway to not-for-profits or municipalities because the latter refuses to work with the private sector.
April 30, 2020

European dental markets “could take years to recover from COVID”

As HBI Intelligence reviews the impact of COVID-19, HBI has been talking to operators and analysts. One EU-based operator says many markets across Europe will struggle to recover once the COVID-19 crisis has passed. Here is his view of where will be worst hit - and where we may see a surprising rebound.
April 15, 2020

Will Bergman buy big before prospective sale?

Rumours persist that Bergman Clinic, the Dutch and Nordic ambulatory and ophthalmology clinic chain, is looking to sell and may have one large acquisition in its sights ahead of any process starting. HBI speaks briefly to two banking sources, and a Netherlands-based advisor to find out more.
March 19, 2020

COVID-19: Care sector confronts crisis, hospitals hit hard

In the second of our two-part deep dive into how COVID-19 is hitting healthcare markets across EMEA, we ask how hospitals are coping with spiralling staff sickness and a flood of patients, and whether the care and dialysis sectors can stay afloat given the risk the virus poses to their most vulnerable patients.
March 12, 2020

Nordic listed care companies: A comparison

The for-profit Nordic care sector has faced intensified scrutiny after scandals erupted at Finnish Esperi and Attendo last year. A look at the share prices of listed companies Ambea, Attendo and Humana gives some indication of the effect of this, where newly elected governments in the last few years have created environments more or less favourable to the private sector.
February 27, 2020

Bridgepoint buys into Norwegian dentistry

Buyout specialist Bridgepoint Development Capital is to acquire a majority shareholding in Oris Dental, a Norwegian group with 25 dental clinics and 4 dental laboratories.
December 20, 2019

FREE BLOG Agency models look easy to disintermediate

How would you describe a for-profit healthcare group which basically takes people away from jobs in the public sector and then hires them back to the same employers in exchange for a fat fee?  How about parasitic?
December 5, 2019
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