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Voxel deal looks close

Due diligence is being carried out on the majority stake in Polish imaging to IT services group Voxel, Healthcare Euopa can reveal. Meanwhile, the company, which is quoted on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, has just announced stonking figures for 2015.
March 21, 2016

Better hopes for lab outsourcing

We talked to Charles Woler, who turned around French reference lab Biomnis and is now the CEO of bioDS - Biomnis holding company, part of Eurofins. He sees signs that governments are starting to think the unthinkable and that public sector outsourcing of lab tests could grow. Woler is also a panelist at our annual conference, Breaking Barriers 2016 conference.
January 28, 2016

Pihlajalinna plans war chest

Having IPOed as recently as June 2015, Finnish healthcare group Pihlajalinna is to ask shareholders for a mandate to issue an extra €40m in shares. The shares have soared 70% above the IPO price to over €17. A €40m issue would leave the company with €70m of net cash. What might the company buy and what does the move tell us about the Finnish market?
November 27, 2015

“Beyond the pill” pharma fails to convince

Big pharma is trying and failing to engage with patients and has no idea how to build service models. Previous attempts to create websites that directly engage with consumers have flopped. The appallingly-named “patient-centricity” sessions at the FT Global Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Conference suggest pharma is still trying in vain.
November 19, 2015

Report: Private Healthcare in Mexico – Hotting Up

Mexico boasts a large, innovative and vibrant private healthcare sector, which sits alongside a developing, but somewhat chaotic public sector. We look at the major players in the private sector, as well as at new innovators seeking to cut the cost of treatment to reach the masses.
November 5, 2015

Private sector set to soar in Mexico

Private operators and their backers are racing to build large chains of outpatient clinics across Mexico. They hope that the right-wing government will allow new much longer term public-private partnerships. Meanwhile, the bodies which make up the Mexican NHS and the payor for services for the poor are in their worst financial situation in history. The minister of health has suggested that they may need to be merged to create a new universal health insurance plan.
October 9, 2015

Correction: Winner of Belarus PPP contract undecided

Healthcare Europa mistakenly reported last week that InterHealth Canada has been appointed to run the PPP in Grodno, Belarus. We have now been told by Interhealth that this is not the case. There is no information on which company was awarded the contract at this stage.
October 2, 2015

Pihlajalinna launches more JVs after IPO

Pihlajalinna, the Finnish healthcare and social services outfit, which recently IPOed with a market capitalisation of €255m, has struck a third joint venture with Finnish municipalities to outsource health and social services. Finland is likely to open up even more to the private sector under the current government.
September 11, 2015
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