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HBI 2020: GDPR kills off international competition for genetic tests

GDPR made it much harder to send samples outside Europe for genetic testing, the director for genetics at Europe's largest lab group Synlab told HBI 2020 delegates. He went through the basics of running a genetic lab business, including workforce, payors and the main challenges.
December 21, 2020

HBI 2020: Non-COVID lab volumes recover in Q3 but M&A model may be redundant

Non-COVID lab volumes reached their pre-pandemic levels in Q3. But does the pandemic signal the end of the sector's reliance on M&A, and what are the implications of new B2C markets? Operators Unilabs, amedes, Medicover and Dr Lal Pathlabs, B2C platform Daslab and supplier Abbott discussed all this and more at HBI 2020's 'Diagnostics: Opportunities and Challenges' & 'A new global consumer market?' sessions.
December 21, 2020

HBI 2020: Investor interest in hospitals increases while outpatient valuations drop

Investors from varied backgrounds - infrastructure, private equity, and REIT, are all bullish about the prospects for healthcare investment in 2021, according to a panel of experts speaking at the HBI 2020 European Investment Panel discussion. But the pandemic may have 'readjusted the relative value discussion across sectors' according to one private equity investor.
December 21, 2020

HBI 2020: Medtech and services – new partnerships and opportunities

The relationship between medtech and its customers is changing. No longer is medtech wheeled out for a one-off purchase. Long-term partnerships are being built, and patients and providers are benefitting. An expert panel at HBI 2020 explored the burgeoning relationship between medtech and services, and some of the challenges this presented.
December 21, 2020

Diagnostics: A new global consumer market?

Here we explore new markets for diagnostics, focusing particularly on B2C consumer markets and genetics. Panelists include: Wolf Kupatt, CEO, Amedes   Recently Amedes has developed a battery of B2C tests around areas such as the gut biome and is conducting genetic tests for consumers in Africa and Asia. What has been the feedback and what is […]
December 16, 2020

Diagnostics – Opportunities and Challenges

This session explores new ways in which lab and imaging groups are working with the public sector around the world. What models really work and why? Operator CEOs look at outsourcing, PPPs, relationships with payors and how new technology is set to change things. Panellists include: Jos Lamers, Executive Chairman, Unilabs One of the largest […]
December 16, 2020

Medtech and Services

Many medtech players are adding new services in consultancy and implementation. In Saudi Arabia, Africa and Turkey big medtech is sometimes providing entire solutions including service elements. Medtronic has moved into the provision and running of cath labs in Europe. Philips has bought a stake in a service provider in Germany. Many of these new […]
December 15, 2020

The impact of Covid on for-profit health care

How has Covid affected the different sub-sectors which make up health care and what has been the impact country-by-country and region-by-region? Some such as laboratory services have actually seen growth accelerate thanks to Covid. Others such as dentistry or imaging have been hard hit. At a country level, Germany and Switzerland have seen massive support […]
December 14, 2020

Interview: Klaus Boehncke, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting 

What can you do with AI and big data today and what will be possible within three years? Why has adoption been slower than you might have expected? And what sort of role should health care providers look to play? HBI gets an expert view from digital, technology and business strategy expert Klaus Boehncke, partner at L.E.K. Consulting, who is chairing the Best Practice Workshop: Delivering Digital Excellence: A Framework for Success at HBI 2020 in two weeks.
December 3, 2020
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