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Acibadem gets 100,000 patients online in three months

Acibadem, the big Turkish private hospital chain which is owned by IHH has signed up 100,000 patients to its online platform which allows users to look at their records and interrogate physicians. We talk to Merve Caglayan, who runs the system.
March 21, 2014

Mediclinic sells to management

Mediclinic, the primary care group in the Czech Republic, was quietly sold to management by Penta Investments, the big Slovak private equity house, at the start of 2014. We look at the main players in the Czech primary care sector.
March 21, 2014

Global Health Partner sees price drops but brighter outlook

The real problem in elective acute care in Sweden has been a series of price cuts, according to Daniel Ohlman, CEO of Global Health Partners, a chain of 20 ambulatory clinics mainly in Sweden, but also in Denmark with one in the United Arab Emirates.
March 4, 2014

Insurers seek new solution as Poland mulls new occupational healthcare rules

Healthcare insurers in Poland are keen to build a platform to compete with Medicover, as well as Bupa-owned LUX-MED, administered by a third party. Meanwhile, it still looks likely that a new occupational healthcare law will be passed this Spring, which could trigger huge growth in the private sector.
February 13, 2014

Will supplementary insurance save French private providers?

Over the last three years, many people in the private sector have indicated that the real growth in France will come from the rise of supplementary insurance and the retreat of the state. “France will become a little more like America,” they tell us. The rise of supplementary insurance will give the private sector, from dentists to hospitals, the space they need to breathe. But is this really true?
February 7, 2014

Should private investors fund Proton Therapy Centres?

The Proton Therapy Center (PTC) in Prague, one of the very few private proton centres in Europe, is the source of a dispute between Erste Bank, which lent it CZK 4.2bn (€153m) and VZP, the largest Czech insurer. We look at what is going on, and at the business model behind it.
February 7, 2014

Norwegian government examines private sector involvement

Healthcare was a hot topic in the 2013 Norwegian elections. The right won partly on a promise to involve the private sector, with state money following the patient. But how to implement the pledge? The country's Minister of Health and Care Services might be having second thoughts.
February 7, 2014

Finnish property sector grows

Healthcare property is selling in Finland, as BPT Asset Management raises a second fund. We talk to fund manager Jussi Rouhento.
January 31, 2014
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