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World’s largest virtual care company will target Europe after $18.5bn merger

Europe's digital health companies could be run out of the market following a $18.5bn merger between Teladoc Health and Livongo. The newly formed largest virtual care company in the world has its sights set on a global market, and Chinese operators are likely to follow suit into Europe.

August 6, 2020

Interview: Pablo Pantaleoni, VP of global strategy, Headspace

Headspace started a decade ago as a meditation app founded by a Buddhist monk. It is now one of the world's most successful consumer B2C businesses with 65m downloads, 2m paying subscribers and north of $50m revenue. HBI speaks to Pablo Pantaleoni who is leading the early stages of clinical trials for digital therapeutics (DTx) through its medical subsidiary, Headspace Health.

July 30, 2020

HBI Exclusive interview: NMC Health’s acting CEO Michael Davis on the future of the business

NMC acting CEO Michael Davis speaks publicly for the first time about the future of under-fire NMC Health. In this exclusive interview, we ask about a possible sale of all or part of the business, and whether and how NMC might recover from its present position.

July 1, 2020

Who might buy NMC’s hospital business?

NMC Health's administrators are making it clear that a wholesale selloff of the UAE's largest healthcare company is not viable. Could any of MENA's largest hospital operators - Mediclinic, VPS, and Aster DM - take over the hospital business? And who will be fighting for the rest? HBI speaks to an investor who knows NMC well to find out more.

June 18, 2020

Cerberus exits Steward as sector gets skewered

The largest private equity-owned hospital group in the world has been sold to its doctors. Cerberus Capital Management has sold a majority stake in US for-profit hospital chain Steward Health Care back to managing doctors, including CEO Ralph de la Torre, ending a 10-year tenure.

June 4, 2020

Interview: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, claims to be the largest rehabilitation hospital in the USA, and works with groups from Bulgaria to UAE. HBI talk to Kelly Cox Watkins, Vice President, Market Development and Barry Fleischer, Executive Director, Advisory Services, about how to build a successful rehabilitation service, their groups' focus on patient ability, not adapting to disability and what that means in practice, and about its advisory work.

March 16, 2020

Exclusive: Babylon has partnership with Ascension

After months of rumours around how Babylon would enter the US market, HBI can exclusively reveal a jointly-run app between the UK-based telehealth player and not-for-profit US-based hospital group Ascension has been quietly launched.

March 5, 2020

NMC reportedly open to offers for fertility specialist Eugin

Under-fire NMC is understood to be open to offers for its large European fertility group Eugin Clinic in what could be one of Spain’s largest PE transactions of the year.

January 30, 2020

Alantra to buy and merge three genetic diagnostic companies

Three Spanish-headquartered companies are set to combine following their acquisition by mid-market investment bank and asset management firm Alantra Private Equity.

December 23, 2019

Veritas Genetics stalls in the States

Veritas Genetics, the US startup pioneering the sequencing of entire genomes, has ceased operating in the US, putting a spotlight on the future of its European and LATAM operations. The news comes following a price cut in the States which was designed to bring more customers onboard, but it seems its direct-to-consumer model struggled as […]

December 19, 2019

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