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Integrated care and value health set to soar in Europe

European politicians increasingly get the value of care which integrates social and acute or the holistic treatment of chronic diseases. They also want value healthcare models which reward operators for quality. Pilots are becoming larger and, in some cases, have been rolled out as long-term projects covering millions of people. There are plenty of opportunities for nimble private sector players. We look at what is happening across Europe.
January 17, 2018

Optimedis gets new investor

Integrated care operator Optimedis, which is now active in the UK and the Netherlands as well as Germany, is getting a new round of financing and has also linked up with big diagnostic groups. 
January 8, 2018

Waterland buys German nursing home operator

Private equity firm Waterland has acquired a nursing home operator with 28 homes and 3,058 beds in southern Germany. We talk to Carsten Rahlfs, partner at Waterland.
December 14, 2017

Are uber-style platforms the future of non-medicalised homecare?

Healthcare Nova chats to Adam Pike, co-founder and CEO of SuperCarers, which brings the sharing economy to non-medicalised homecare in the UK but is looking to expand into China and Australia. Is he doing to homecare what Uber did for personal transportation? Adam Pike founded the platform with his brother in 2015 after their mother’s […]
November 25, 2017

Nordic-based group takes over LATAM’s leading ambulance and homecare business

Despite strong rumours that it was set to sell off its LATAM business, Falck, the Nordic-based international ambulance, fire service, healthcare and roadside assistance group, has done the opposite – acquiring the remaining 36.9% of shares in Grupo EMI and taking full ownership of Colombia’s leading provider of ambulance services and homecare.
October 20, 2017

Falck takes over LATAM’s leading ambulance and homecare group

Despite strong rumours that it was set to sell off its LATAM business, Falck, the international ambulance, fire service, healthcare and roadside assistance group, has done the opposite – acquiring the remaining 36.9% of shares in Grupo EMI and taking full ownership of Colombia’s leading provider of ambulance services and homecare.
October 20, 2017

“We can meet the needs of the baby boom generation with today’s medical capacity”

That is a very bold statement indeed. But Prof Richard Boucherie at the Centre for Healthcare Operations Improvement and Research (CHOIR) of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, reckons it is true. For the past 15 years CHOIR has been helping Dutch hospitals, labs and homecare groups to increase their efficiency through mathematical modelling using operations research methods including queueing theory, optimisation and computer simulation. We interview him on how such an approach can make massive efficiency gains.
September 26, 2017
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