Spire Healthcare, the UK’s largest for-profit hospital group, has extended its control over the patient journey with a new state-of-the-art MRI scanner worth £500,000.
The hype around artificial intelligence may have reached a new high, but the tools certainly aren’t recent. At HBI 2023, L.E.K. Consulting’s digital health lead Klaus Boehncke and L.E.K. partner Guillaume Duparc shared their perspectives on concerns around privacy and the adoption of AI, as well as advice on how to leverage data effectively.
AI and big data are primed to improve clinical outcomes and standards for radiologists as well as the health care sector as a whole, but how far along the journey to automated care delivery are we? In an HBI 2023 panel discussion ‘AI and Big Data: Outcomes and Automation,’ panellists explored how automation could speed up diagnosis to treatment from 2 weeks to 15 minutes.
Regulatory changes are one of the major concerns among players in healthcare services. A busy panel of lawyers, operators and investors considered this thorny issue at HBI 2023, with a general feeling that even the strictest of regulations can provide some kind of opportunity, and that private funding is so essential a component in health care today, it cannot be legislated away.
The imaging sector presents a significant opportunity for private investors and operators, given its strong fundamentals and low levels of consolidation. Speakers on the ‘Opportunities in diagnostic imaging and teleradiology’ panel at HBI 2023 were particularly enthusiastic about the opportunity in Germany and France, and about building teleradiology platforms.
Our annual conference took place earlier this week in London. Over a jam-packed three days of HBI 2023, an impressive array of delegates from across Europe and beyond gathered in the heart of London and shared their insights into the myriad challenges and abundant opportunities the sector faces, and offered their views on how some of them might be addressed. Here are some of our key takeaways.
Last week HBI reported on the South African parliament approving a national / statutory health insurance scheme, which would bring universal healthcare to the rainbow nation at the expense of private providers. HBI speaks to a South African operator to find out how this may affect them.
M&A in European health care has been almost at a standstill in H1 2023, as the chasm between the price expectations of buyers and sellers has grown. HBI asks if the prospects look better for H2 and beyond, with the help of market experts.
South Africa's parliament has voted for a new health insurance bill which will pave the way towards universal healthcare – at the expense of private care.
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