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Imaging Services

 

Atrys: What’s the focus?

No listed health care group in Europe has grown anything like as fast as Atrys Health, which now spans Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and four Latin American countries. But does its M&A strategy have any coherence? We talk to Atrys CFO Josep Maria Huch.

Fresenius Helios launches revolutionary primary care offer

Fresenius Helios plans to become the first and only global health care service player by rolling out its Curalie telehealth plus a prefab diagnostic unit (the Cube) starting in Vietnam in October. Deals are being struck with governments in Ghana and Kenya for the group to offer primary care for €10 per cap. to millions. We talk to Fresenius Helios CEO Franceso de Meo.

Interview: Dirk Knüppel, Meine Radiologie

Imaging and radiology is hot at the moment - especially in Germany. The next five years are going to see a huge amount of consolidation according to Dirk Knüppel, CEO at EQT-backed Meine Radiologie & Blikk Holding (MRBH) and HBI 2022 panellist. HBI caught up with him to find out more about his group's plans to expand across Europe.

Unilabs sale completes

AP Moller Holding, the investment company owned by the billionaire Maersk family, has closed the purchase of global lab and imaging chain Unilabs. 

Interview: Dagmar Dvorakova, CEO and Prof. Dr. Roland Staudinger, managing director, Aquilia Health Group

Smart reha, medical malls, how to best deploy new medtech, Fresenius Vamed veterans both, Dagmar and Roland are full of ideas on how to best build and run health care service models from acute hospitals to rehab and outpatient. Two and a half years ago they quit the mothership to set up Aquila which now employs 45 and runs projects in China, SE Asia, Austria, Germany and the Czech Rep.

Investors choose between Affidea and IVI RMA

Big private equity players in health care face a choice as to whether to go for Pan-European imaging group Affidea which is for sale through Goldman Sachs or for IVI RMA, the international fertility group.

Finnish SOTE reform ‘could create more outsourcing opportunities’

In July 2021, Finland’s leftist parliament passed the long-awaited SOTE reform to its healthcare system, which amalgamated 309 municipal health authorities into 21 much larger ‘welfare regions’. HBI speaks to analysts and operators to find out what impact the reform is having on the for-profit sector.

Lusiadas Saude for sale

HBI hears Lusiadas Saude, Portugal’s third-largest hospital group by revenue, is for sale. Meanwhile, imaging and labs may be affected by the surprise re-election of the leftist Socialist government. HBI speaks with a healthcare consultant in Portugal to find out more. 

Imaging and radiotherapy hots up in West Europe

Infrastructure funds, family offices and big cap private equity are keen to buy and consolidate the imaging/radiotherapy sector in wealthy Western Europe - Germany, France, Switzerland and Northern Italy. We look at recent deals and name the consolidators.

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