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.
Defying the trope that physiotherapy is un-investable or un-scaleable, UK outfit Ascenti has grown to around €50m in sales, directly employing physiotherapists and demonstrating profitability. HBI talks to managing director Kevin Doyle, a former footballer, about Ascenti's business model, retention, payment models, leveraging digital and why physiotherapy isn't like ophthalmology or dentistry.
Fresenius Helios has formed a new telemedicine joint-venture that will create an occupational healthcare tool to increase patient flow in Germany. The company exclusively tells HBI it wants to roll out to Spain.
Private equity giant EQT has offered to buy out the public shareholders of Health Management International, a hospital and outpatient group in Malaysia and Singapore, in partnership with its major founder-shareholders. The buyers cite startup costs from a recent acquisition and capital needs being better sought privately as reasons for the move.
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