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Kaia Health eyeing France and UK launch

German digital therapeutics (DTx) app Kaia Health tells HBI it will soon launch in France and the UK after completing Europe's largest randomised control trial (RCT) for DTx focused on a chronic disease. 
July 23, 2020

Interview: Arjan Toor, CEO, Cigna Europe

Cigna now describes itself as “a global health service company” rather than an insurer and has reorganised its European operations. Toor has recently been promoted to CEO Europe. He says that the insurer, which has 15% (US$840m) of its revenue in Europe, doesn't want to verticalise through owning primary care providers but wants instead to provide an end-to-end user experience.
July 21, 2020

West Europe’s for-profit hospitals ramp up as financial protections phased out

For-profit hospitals across West Europe are ramping up activity as governmental financial protections are slowly phased out, but it's taking much longer than in outpatient facilities and varies wildly from country to country. Why? HBI looks at the situation in Germany, France, Switzerland, the UK and Ireland.
July 16, 2020

Median looking at France, UK and GCC as Waterland stays put

Private equity firm Waterland has no current plans to put German rehabilitation group Median Kliniken up for sale again, and is focusing on internationalising the business into the UK, France and the GCC, Median CEO Andre Schmidt tells HBI.
July 9, 2020

Circle divests to get BMI deal through

UK private hospital operator Circle Health is to divest its Bath and Birmingham hospitals to get competition watchdog approval for its buyout of larger competitor BMI Healthcare.
July 9, 2020

COVID impact less severe than expected for cosmetic group

HBI talks to Tony Veverka, CEO of Transform Hospital Group, about the groups experience of reopening its core cosmetic business after supporting the NHS though COVID since the start of April, the affect on its revenue, and his hope a new understanding might be reached with the NHS.
July 9, 2020

Elderly care post-Covid: HBI Big Picture Seminar

How has Covid affected the elderly care sector across EMEA? To find out, HBI-365, the new global digital platform, brought together a panel of three: Fredrik Gren, CEO and president, Ambea, a sophisticated and large Pan-Scandinavian care group, Alexei Sidnev, CEO, Senior Group, the largest player in a big emerging market, Russia and Pierre-Emanuel Bercegeay, CEO, Ouihelp, a VC-backed, digital-savvy domiciliary homecare start-up in France. The seminar was followed by the first meeting of our HBI-365 elderly community with a useful roundtable on workforce.
July 2, 2020

Could Synlab’s UK success open the outsourcing floodgates?

UK lab group Viapath has been nationalised, after Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts bought out its private sector partner Serco following the loss of a £2.25bn outsourcing contract in which Synlab remains the preferred bidder. Could Synlab's expected success be the first of a slew of new outsourcing contracts for big lab platforms? HBI talks to a consultant to find out more.
June 23, 2020
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