Five candidates have reached the final stages of consideration for entry into a medical cluster on the outskirts of Moscow, which has received US$165m of state support, we heard from its CEO and advisors.
Big nursing home and elderly care group Ambea plans to IPO on the NASDAQ Stockholm. Expect other big Nordic operators to follow suit. But what is their long-term future?
Terveystalo, Finland’s largest private healthcare provider, has developed a monitoring and data analytics package to better identify patients at risk of or suffering from type 2 diabetes. The group says it could help the country save €2bn a year and that it is already making a profit from Etydi. We speak to Päivi Metsäniemi, Chief Physician, and Juha Tuominen, CMO, at Terveystalo, who have applied to the HBI 2017 awards in the Best Use of Digital Health category.
Romanian healthcare services provider MedLife is buying Bucharest operator Anima, a group of six clinics providing outpatient services to public, private and corporate patients. We speak to Anima’s CEO Cristian Sas.
UK-based occupational health provider Iqarus, which specialises in “demanding and complex operating environments”, has made its first international acquisition in Afghanistan. We speak to CEO Tim Mitchell about its plans in the war-torn state, and whether Donald Trump’s immigration policy could slash the lucrative market in health screenings needed to get US visas.
The health and social care group, Pihlajalinna, is the biggest (and arguably hardest to pronounce) name in Finnish outsourcing. It opened its first joint venture with Jämsä in 2010 and now receives 55% of its sales through this model. But the Finnish Sote reform, which will totally reshape the market, is fast approaching. Still, Aktan claims that Pihlajalinna, a weak consumer brand, will adapt to freedom of choice and the end of outsourcing as he knows it.
Circle Rehabilitation Services, a joint venture between the UK private hospital group, Circle Health, and Vamed, an international hospital construction and management operator, is confident there is a mix of payors willing to fund inpatient rehab. The service should cost roughly two-thirds the price of an NHS acute bed per night, Circle’s chief medical officer, Dr Massoud Fouladi, told Healthcare Europa.
Romania's largest healthcare group Medlife has hired banker Raiffeisen to advise on an IPO next month, in November. The listing will provide private equity house Value4Capital (V4C) a way to exit its 36% stake after more than a year of unfruitful attempts to disinvest.
Medicover, the Pan-East European corporate healthcare provider and lab group, plans to IPO to expand internationally, raising SEK2bn for expansion of its core business into Emerging Markets.
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