Global gas giant Air Liquide will buy Betamed, a Polish medicalised homecare provider, after the competition regulator approved the deal. It will now have over €50m of oxygen services in the country.
Pan-European homecare group Promedica24 tells HBI that long-term investor ForeVest is considering an exit in the next 1-2 years. Tomasz Brzeziński, CEO and CFO, says that the group has plans to move into Switzerland and Austria as well as diversify its revenue sources in Germany. Brzeziński is one of 100 speakers at HBI 2021, Sept 20-22, the global CEO-level event focused on for-profit healthcare.
Europe’s largest imaging company Affidea wants to become a one-stop shop for all outpatient services. HBI talks to CEO Giuseppe Recchi about changing a brand’s reputation, a record year of M&A and how the pandemic impacted the business.
Outpatient group Gajda-Med has won Poland's multi-million euro contract to deliver first-contact telehealth services for the Polish NHS. It follows a recent trend of private sector companies moving to work on national hotlines, including in Sweden and Switzerland, and it is very controversial where operators already own physical clinics.
Questions are surrounding the ongoing stake sale process for pan-CEE hospital chain Penta Hospitals International (PHI). Owner Penta Investments director Václav Jirků tells HBI that remaining bids are to be received by next week and rejects rumours it may pull the process entirely.
Private sector penetration of care home markets varies across Europe. This week's infographic shows how care home ownership divides between the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors in European countries.
CEE firm Penta Investments' sale of a stake in its hospital business Penta Hospitals International (PHI) has progressed with NDAs signed by a dozen parties and indicative offers expected next month, director Václav Jirků tells HBI.
CEE private equity firm Penta Investments is seeking a new investor for its hospital division, Penta Hospitals International (PHI), and aims to launch a process with investment memorandums (IMs) out by the end of February, investment director Václav Jirků tells HBI. He discusses the reason for the sale, including international expansion, and the current political turmoil surrounding Penta and its healthcare business.
Imaging AI solutions which can read images just as well as radiologists are now demonstrably effective medical products that will revolutionise the medical imaging industry forever. $1.5bn in VC funding has been ploughed into companies developing solutions whose tech promises to transform diagnosis and improve operational efficiency. We talk to seven of them who've commercialised products in 2019/20, operators using them, and look at the sector in detail in this long-read feature.
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