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FREE BLOG Why “digital” shouldn’t replace the human touch

Digital enthusiasts are right to be optimistic, but tech solutions are not a panacea. In the Nordics, countries are refining big data and laying the foundations for large-scale preventive healthcare. In France, online companies are tentatively eliminating healthcare silos and in the UK, apps and Skype calls are filling the gap in provision for mental health services. But the hype for digital solutions can lead providers astray.
October 3, 2019

Schoen acquires start-up behind depression monitoring app

Schoen Clinic has acquired the start-up behind one of the world's most downloaded depression treatment apps, Moodpath. HBI speaks to the co-founder of Aurora Health about how the two companies want to jointly build a European wide digital platform for mental health.
October 3, 2019

Orpea enters the UK with acquisition in psychiatry

Pan-European nursing home and psychiatric giant Orpea has entered the UK market for the first time. The group has bought a French psychiatric specialist which owns a premium facility in London. HBI speaks to Orpea and a market adviser about strategy, multiples, and whether this opens the door to further activity in the UK.
October 3, 2019

Connect Health adopts AI platform

One of Britain's largest for-profit physiotherapy providers has moved to an AI platform to improve efficiency. We look at the operator's business model and how it will be using AI.
September 30, 2019

Spire divests oncology centres to GenesisCare

Quoted UK hospital group Spire has sold its two oncology centres to specialist provider GenesisCare, while together they have entered into a JV to deliver oncology services at one of Spire's hospitals. Its CEO suggests a further divestment could be on the cards.
September 27, 2019

FREE BLOG Europe’s €18bn fragmented private imaging sector ripe for change

What has emerged during our research for HBI Intelligence's imaging report, now live on our site, is how fragmented the sector is compared to other services. It will be utterly revolutionised by regulatory and tariff changes, AI/teleradiology and changing service-supplier dynamics; it's just no one is sure exactly how.
September 27, 2019

Althea and Medipass may sell as TPM equipment sector hots up

Althea, by far the largest player in the third party managed equipment market in EMEA has been put up for sale by Permira, as first reported here in 2018. Meanwhile, we hear listed Italian player KOS is pondering the sale of Medipass.
September 26, 2019

UK applies €1.5bn band aid to care sector in crisis

The UK government has pledged £1.5bn (€1.6bn) to local authorities' social care budgets in order to tide the care sector over for another year (which includes both nursing homes and homecare). But while councils welcome the funding, a market investor tells us it won't be sufficient to patch up a system in crisis. A provider tells us the amount is in line with what the sector expected but is a tempory solution.
September 19, 2019

Schoen trims management team

Germany's fifth-largest hospital group Schoen Klinik is overhauling its management team, with five managing directors to go by the end of 2019.
September 18, 2019
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