REIT Icade had only covered the book of Icade Sante by 1.25x the €800m it was hoping to raise, HBI is told. Earlier this week it permanently postponed an IPO citing volatile markets.
Covid's impact looms large on the regulations horizon, especially in Western European countries, a panel considering political risk concluded at HBI 2021.
South Asia’s healthcare systems were hit hard by Covid. A panel of advisors, investors and operators at HBI 2021 shared their experiences of reacting to COVID and discussed how it had presented opportunities to do things differently.
Running international hospitals in diverse cultures brings challenges and opportunities, an expert panel at HBI 2021 said and reviewed shared management learnings.
Francesco De Meo, CEO of Fresenius Helios, told HBI 2021 that Fresenius plans to expand from treating 20m patients per year in Europe to treating 100m per year globally by 2030. To achieve this he emphasised the role of asset light models with a heavy focus on digital.
Around five in ten hospitals in the UK use robotic surgery, while 65% of university hospitals in Strasbourg have less than two rooms equipped with robots. How diverse are healthcare systems across different geographies in adopting robots? At a session on digital transformation at HBI 2021, the panel asked: 'What is possible with robotic surgery today, and how is it impacting the market'?
Some revered global brands have become unstuck in their internationalisation by ceding control of a brand without any quality assurance. Panellists at HBI 2021 discussed how to manage that process more effectively.
Is healthcare in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) the next big investment opportunity? According to a panel at HBI 2021 on the MENA region the answer is an emphatic yes, and the region is 'open for business - though not a market for the faint of heart.
It will take another decade for many healthcare providers to adequately structure their data in order to use AI to make a wide-ranging impact on patient outcomes. Most of the solutions in use today are still single-case, ranging from measuring body composition, detecting lung nodules and predicting the risk of a specific disease.
Axa group in partnership with Microsoft has launched its digital healthcare platform in Italy and Germany this year, and has plans to launch in Spain, Belgium, and the UK in the next two weeks. An expert panel at HBI 2021 made up of Bupa, Cigna and Axa discusses how the Insurer market has changed and the future of digital platforms.
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