PE firm Mid Europa has pushed back its exit horizon for Romanian healthcare group Regina Maria to 2024 at the earliest, three years later than it planned to pre-Covid. Regina Maria grew revenues 27% in 2020.
A new R$1bn ($178m) fund in Brazil says it is targeting 'high-quality healthcare services for the low-income population in Brazil' and has already made its first acquisitions.
Finnish outpatient and occupational healthcare specialist Mehilainen has made two acquisitions in Estonia. The company says strong expansion into Estonia is a natural next step in Mehilainen’s internationalisation strategy.
Spain-listed diagnostics and radiotherapy group Atrys Health's CFO talks HBI through the strategic rationale of its spate of recent acquisitions including a €550m merger with another listed group, after we questioned the diversity of deal-making it is pursuing. He says it is looking at acquiring radiotherapy centres in Europe outside Iberia.
An insurer, an integrated healthcare provider and a telehealth player are three providers with very different experiences of being able to reach the patient. HBI looks at four tangible lessons from Aetna, Medicover and Kry from HBI 2020.
What can you do with AI and big data today and what will be possible within three years? Why has adoption been slower than you might have expected? And what sort of role should health care providers look to play? HBI gets an expert view from digital, technology and business strategy expert Klaus Boehncke, partner at L.E.K. Consulting, who is chairing the Best Practice Workshop: Delivering Digital Excellence: A Framework for Success at HBI 2020 in two weeks.
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the working patterns and environments of every type of workforce, resulting in big hits to free-for-service (FFS) business models and new opportunities in remote care. Panellists from Medicover, Medigold and Qualitas discussed this and how good occupational healthcare can reduce the costs of absenteeism by half, at last week's HBI Big Picture Seminar.
New tech promises to allow humans AI-driven health care conversations over text, voice, and email, leading to real dialogue and much more intelligent monitoring. Some of this stuff is here now. Here are the six main cornerstones health care operators should know when deploying it, and the 13 big mistakes that affect health care operators when they try and do tech stuff.
The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority's (FCCA) surprise decision to oppose the merger of Mehilainen and Pihlajalinna has nothing to do with the changing political climate around the privatisation of healthcare, its merger control director tells HBI. She also explains why you can't compare it to the merger of Terveystalo and Attendo in 2018.
Some of the most impressive for-profit players are in the occupational healthcare space. But what are the wider opportunities beyond core countries such as the USA, Finland, Romania and Poland? Panelists include: Richard Sands, Group Strategy Advisor, Medicover, Karim Dhala, Director Corporate Services, Qualitas Health and Alex Goldsmith, CEO, Medigold Health.
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