Preliminary bids for Dutch, Nordic and German ambulatory and ophthalmology clinic group Bergman Clinics were due last week, HBI is told, with big-hitting PE firms expected to make offers.
Will the creditors of NMC Healthcare, the GCC's largest for-profit healthcare operator which has been in administration since April 2020, choose a sale of its core UAE business in the next 3-6 months or a longer-term, creditor-led restructuring? We talk exclusively to NMC CEO Michael Davis and UAE sources. A 'fire sale' of parts of its core UAE business now seems entirely off the table.
The private healthcare sector should have a large role in distributing the COVID-19 vaccine in sub-Saharan Africa alongside traditional NGO vaccine distributors. Why? Because it already has a much closer relationship to those who are most at risk, chronically ill men, HBI hears.
Multiple sources tell HBI that DACH psychiatry and acute hospital group Ameos is preparing for sale or refinancing. The group vehemently denies it is preparing for sale.
NHS England trusts have triggered clauses granting full access to private hospital capacity in some areas as COVID-19 hospitalisations soar, amidst controversy over the ramp-up of private pay activity - although private operators tell HBI they are focusing on time-critical surgery and cancer care.
Hungary's largest private acute care operators continued double-digit revenue growth of previous years in 2020 despite COVID-19, HBI can reveal. Recent analysis by analysts shows much of the sector's pre-pandemic growth may have been enhanced by capturing the 'grey' market of previously under-the-table private pay.
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.
Just 2% of publicly insured Germans have registered to see their electronic patient record (ePA) since access was made mandatory at the beginning of the year. Many either don't know it exists or are worried about data privacy, HBI hears. That settles some answers to the question of whether it's worthwhile giving patients access to their own data.
Analysts covering Brazil's largest private hospital Rede d'Or have projected a 25% rise share price after its $2.2bn IPO last month. However, the sustainability of its fee-for-service business model in the long-term has been questioned by some. Its insurers are slowly losing market cap to integrated players.
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