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FREE BLOG Reinventing the lab sector

In our current environment, the Diagnostics industry is faced with increasing challenges that have an impact on how we operate (business models) and how we generate profit. Western European markets have seen caps on test volumes or decreases in reimbursement tariffs; Emerging Markets have partially enjoyed an increase in wealth but struggled in defining sustainable funding systems, many of which remain based on out-of-pocket payments.
March 31, 2017

Interview: Frederic Llordachs, co-founder of review and booking site Doctoralia

Doctoralia, the Spanish-based online healthcare appointment booking and review site with a strong presence in Latin America merged with its Polish-based competitor DocPlanner last year. Healthcare Europa talks to Doctoralia co-founder Dr. Frederic Llordachs, now a partner at DocPlanner, about business models, the merger, and the future of booking sites.
March 27, 2017

Interview: Andy Lockwood, managing director of Capita Healthcare Decisions

UK outsourcing giant Capita has had a torrid year with three profit warnings knocking a third off its share price. It’s selling off non-core activities trying to turn its fortunes around but the inclusion of its medical recruitment business in the sell-off does not signal a withdrawal from healthcare. Instead, as MD Andy Lockwood explains, it’s bundled four of its health offerings into Capital Healthcare Decisions, which offers tech solutions to providers and payors both public and private and at home and abroad.
March 27, 2017

Unilabs to triple sales

Pan-European lab and imaging group Unilabs plans to triple its size in three years, CEO Jos Lamers tells us. How?
March 22, 2017

Interview: Fadil Elamin, Founder, Khartoum Dentist, Sudan

Sudan is open for business. And those willing to take the risk of entering a previously sieged economy, may find themselves turning over more than $32m a year, just like Fadil Elamin who runs Khartoum Dentist, a growing chain of dental clinics in the capita
March 22, 2017

MDMG posts impressive 2016 results – and has two more acquisitions in the pipeline

Russian "mother and child" specialist, MD Medical Group (MDMG), saw growth of 28% for sales and 37% for EBITDA year-on-year in 2016. Healthcare Europa understands it has two acquisitions in the pipeline in separate regions of Russia and the group also expects to double capital expenditure on greenfield projects next year.
March 21, 2017

Will Ambea follow the trend of successful Nordic IPOs?

Triton and KKR are to sell a lot of shares in the Sweden-based elderly and social care provider Ambea IPO - which will raise just SEK 200m (€21m) gross for the company itself, and SEK 2.3 billion (€240m) minus that SEK 200m for those two private equity companies. Will the IPO be as successful as recent Nordics IPOs in the healthcare sector? We speak to CEO Frederik Gren.
March 21, 2017

Korian shares bounce back from dip in the wake of 2016 FY results

One month after the release of its provisional 2016 results, and the 6% fall in its share price which followed, Europe's largest nursing home group Korian’s announcement of its full results saw shares jump back up nearly 7% with a performance in line with expectations. But was this a reflection of a positive reaction, or relief that things weren't worse?
March 17, 2017

2.09% drop in French tariffs

Private operators in France will see a total decrease of 2.09% in tariffs and state funding in 2017. Such decision, however, comes as no surprise to the private sector, says Stéphane Pichon, managing partner at YourCare Consult.
March 13, 2017
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