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Russia debates ban on spending public funds on capex

Russia has put forward draft proposals that forbid private providers from spending compulsory insurance funds on capital expenditure, the acquisition of property and the repayment of loans. Operators say it will likely halt all investment in the sector.
March 29, 2021

2021: A boom year for health care M&A

The M&A market has roared out of Covid in the first quarter according to the HBI Panel Discussion. Are multiples likely to drop and what is investor appetite?
March 25, 2021

Interview: Mark Chapman, International CEO, Life Healthcare

What are South African hospital group Life Healthcare's plans for its international division, mainly comprised of pan-European imaging operator Alliance Medical? In a long and wide-ranging discussion, Chapman talks about expansion in South Africa and one to two new countries, 'winners and losers' in the imaging AI market, tariff pressure across Europe and what the first new potential drug therapy for Alzheimer's in 18 years means for its PET-CT business.
March 24, 2021

Affidea enters UK with double-deal

Pan-European imaging and outpatient operator Affidea has entered the UK market with the acquisition of Fortius Clinic, a group of musculoskeletal (MSK) and orthopaedics centres in central London, and an outpatient centre in Northern Ireland. 
March 4, 2021

Teleradiology veteran joins AI outfit as sectors’ outlooks diverge

The former CEO of lab group Unilabs' teleradiology arm TMC, Alexander Böhmcker, has joined the eighth most-funded imaging AI company in the world, Aidoc, as VP Europe. We talk to Böhmcker. What does the move say about the two sectors which had very different 2020s?
February 18, 2021

Integrating diagnostics and therapeutics

Diagnosing and giving therapy can be two very siloed services. Increasingly, innovators are building platforms to understand how the two could come closer together. We speak to one of the world's best-funded AI start-ups, Lunit, about its attempt to integrate diagnostics and therapeutics.
February 4, 2021

Spanish imaging consolidation resumes while French national player grows

Pan-European imaging operator Affidea and Andalusia-based group HT Medica have resumed their consolidation of Spain's imaging market with single-centre deals in January. Meanwhile, France's third-largest consolidator has grown to 300 radiologists with private equity backing.
January 28, 2021

$3bn Imaging AI sector will re-shape industry after watershed 2019/20

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.
January 21, 2021
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