Joe Stringer, healthcare investment specialist, and partner at Octopus Ventures which invests in and supports start-up businesses across Europe, talks to HBI about his approach to investment ahead of his panel appearance at HBI 2022.
HBI chats with Kalle Conneryd-Lundgren, the new chief clinical operations officer at Stockholm-based digital health player Kry, to find out about his plans for the group and the market in general.
Whilst the number of M&A transactions in the telehealth sector hasn’t seen huge growth, the sector has seen a meteoric rise over the past few years, especially since Covid. In this week’s infographic we look at the growth in revenue of Europe’s largest five telehealth providers and at how the revenue multiples from the valuations telehealth companies receive in M&A transactions has changed.
Main Capital Partners, a European private equity group focused on investing into enterprise software companies, has bought a majority stake in Finnish telehealth provider VideoVisit. The company plans to expand internationally.
Paris-based hospital group Elsan says it will open two “highly digitised” primary care facilities by the end of the year in cooperation with Livi, the developer of the e-health platform owned by the Swedish startup Kry. HBI speaks with Thierry Chiche, CEO at Elsan and Jonathan Ardouin, Managing Director at Livi France, to learn more.
UK telehealth provider Attend Anywhere saw 94% of its one-year NHS contracts that were up for tender renewed this month, with the majority of the renewed contracts being for two or three years. This means it will remain the major provider of telehealth services to NHS outpatient departments for at least the next two years.
Fresenius Helios plans to become the first and only global health care service player by rolling out its Curalie telehealth plus a prefab diagnostic unit (the Cube) starting in Vietnam in October. Deals are being struck with governments in Ghana and Kenya for the group to offer primary care for €10 per cap. to millions. We talk to Fresenius Helios CEO Franceso de Meo.
Healthcare digitisation will change the nature of what it means to be a doctor or nurse, undermining many employees' sense of work satisfaction, according to a new report by Netherlands-based medical research publisher Elsevier. HBI speaks with Charles Alessi, one of the report’s authors, to find out more.
Could the bubble be bursting for digital scheduling companies as Google nudges its way in with a new booking feature specifically for healthcare? We take a closer look at what Google's latest plans might mean for the industry.
Now the largest unicorn in France, Doctolib is valued at €5.8b, three years after it reached unicorn status, despite still making a loss. HBI speaks to a French healthcare consultant and expert to find out how.
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