The Indian government is unlikely to manage to control hospital pricing, despite its battle over stents and other consumables. And none of the big hospital groups are embracing the government's low-cost scheme to cover 50m families.
HBI can exclusively reveal that multi-national CEE hospital chain Penta has started meeting with investors with a view to selling at least a minority stake, months after it denied the company was for sale. It tells HBI that it wants a partner who can support international expansion plans.
One of Britain's largest for-profit physiotherapy providers has moved to an AI platform to improve efficiency. We look at the operator's business model and how it will be using AI.
MedInvestGroup, the Russian healthcare investment platform owned by billionaire Viktor Kharitonin, has entered into a PPP with a Russian region to build an oncology centre expected to cost at least $50m.
HBI hears that some of Croatia's private health insurers have been buying polyclinics in a bid to verticalise the outpatient market, but an investor says that it can be difficult to make the model work.
What is integrated health care as practiced today in Europe? What can it deliver? And what are the barriers to its adoption>? We look at the lessons from three large projects that have all run for over a decade - The Wigan Deal (UK), Tiohundra (Sweden) and Kinzigtal/OptiMedis (Germany). All three will present at the HBI Policy Summit, April 20-22, 2020, London.
Uniquely, we think in Europe, Tiohundra, an organisation serving a municipality of 62,000, has fully merged social care and health care delivery. Social care (elderly care, disabled care, homecare, psychiatry) and health care (hospitals and primary care) – have been melded in to a single organisation. So what are the learnings? And are we going […]
We talk to pan-European imaging and outpatient group Affidea CEO Giuseppe Recchi about its recent acquisition spree and AI partnerships. He says its pipeline of acquisitions will double its size in the next two years.
The sale process of Romanian healthcare group Regina Maria is likely to officially begin in September, with owner Mid Europa narrowing down the shortlist of bidders between now and then, we are told.
Private equity group Triton is to acquire Aleris' healthcare services business, nine months after owner Investor AB sold off its social care segment. It values Aleris at 2.6-2.8bn SEK (€246-265m) or 17-18x 2018 EBITDA.
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