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Affidea boss denies rumours

Affidea CEO Dimitris Moulavasilis has categorically denied rumours that Waypoint Capital might be willing to sell the Pan East and South European imaging service provider. There was speculation that such a sale would have left the way open for a large private equity house to buy both Affidea and Alliance Medical, where M&G is looking for a sale, and merge them to create a truly Pan-European operator. Instead, Moulavasilis expressed interest in further acquisitions to grow the company.

Mobile health clinic for US$22,000

Clinic In A Can offers fully resourced, sterile and climate controlled medical clinics, with their own sources of water and power that can be shipped to any location in the world within days. They offer a radical solution to the widespread scarcity of basic healthcare infrastructure and equipment and a powerful tool for disaster relief, says Dr Michael Joseph Wawrzewski III, CEO and cofounder. Its shipping container clinics are now in 12 countries. He gave Healthcare Nova a tour.

Who’d buy Alliance Medical?

Alliance Medical, one of Europe’s two big imaging service groups, has appointed Rothschild to consider strategic options, according to Sky News. So who would want to buy it? Big medtech?

Al Borg attracts interest

Three Gulf-based private equity firms are reportedly interested in buying a minority stake in Al Borg Medical Laboratories, the largest player in Saudi Arabia. We report on Al Borg’s expansion plans.

Acibadem’s European plans

IHH Healthcare’s Turkish arm Acibadem has big plans for Europe where it recently became the largest player in Bulgaria with the acquisition of City Clinics. It is negotiating to buy in Romania and will build facilities in two other European countries.

Private insurers in East Asia: Between a rock and a hard place

Private medical insurers face colossal problems in China, India and across South East Asia. At this month’s Asia Healthcare Summit in Singapore, they were better at describing the challenges of culture, fraud and overtreatment than they were at coming up with solutions.

FREE BLOG Why so few real entrepreneurs?

Health care services is probably Europe's largest industry as a percentage of GDP. Even private-only healthcare and care services is a couple of points of GDP. So why so few real entrepreneurs? Most bosses in this industry are simply running and growing largish, stable businesses. Very few are seeking to identify and meet unmet demands.

Swiss face big danger of tariff cuts

Swiss tariffs for technical services which include lab and imaging could drop by 27%, according to a proposal formulated by doctor and hospital associations and some insurers. The actual drop is likely to be much lower, but a cut looks inevitable.

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