Why you as a diagnostic services player should join us…


You know that the diagnostic services sector is changing. How far can groups retain the stronger relationships built through Covid? How can they best grasp new markets in oncology? And how far are governments willing to outsource? In Emerging Markets there are huge opportunities to be grasped and lab and imaging operators are building international chains.
Healthcare Business International, now in its thirteenth year, is the only CEO event to give you the market overview you need to steer your company forward. Every year lab and imaging groups join us from across the world.
4 reasons why leading diagnostic services groups attend:
As a diagnostic services, no matter where you are in the world, you should join them in 2023. Here is why!
Network with their peers
This is a rare opportunity to meet your opposite numbers, people who are wrestling with your issues.
Network with investors
In 2022 over 150 investors in healthcare services attended this event. Meet and build relationships with the specialist investors who understand your industry.
Insights which boost sales and profits
We have a session dedicated to the lab sector where CEOs talk with remarkable honesty about their business models and experience. In other sessions, CEOs look at imaging services, internationalisation, workforce and the impact of AI and big data.
The broader vision you need
Today you need to understand the lab and imaging sector internationally AND how other sectors, such as private hospitals, are changing. You need to understand how payor-provider relationships will evolve. Above all, how the web will affect the diagnostics sector. All of this is covered in our agenda.
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Here's what previous delegates have said about the conference
Perhaps it is not surprising that many diagnostic groups send CXO teams. Book your place at HBI 2023 now and join us.


HBI is a unique opportunity to meet a lot of peers in my group but also to listen to presentations which bring the state of the art opinion on any type of subject.
Guiseppe Recchi, CEO, Affidea, EMEA


Here you meet best of breed, hear the latest trends and the best people for great networking.
Ville Iho, President & CEO, Terveystalo


The list of guests and speakers contains fantastic backgrounds, all world- experts in different fields and it's a great opportunity to engage.
Pete Wharton-Hood, Group Chief Executive, Life Healthcare Group, South Africa/Europe


A really unusual place where you can meet and exchange information with other large groups. I’ve come away with real insights that I can apply.
Eduardo Margara, COO, Alliar, Brazil


HBI is a very good platform for us to LEARN across borders.
Vikram Vora, CEO, {my}dentist


It was a very well organised and useful conference. I had a chance to connect with a lot of colleagues in the industry, which is always enjoyable.
Ameera Shah, CEO, Metropolis, India


What brings me to the conference is to meet other healthcare providers across the world, seeing what's happening, sharing experiences, dealing with patients and doctors. It's very interesting to hear what other people are going through and just enriching myself with different concepts and ideas, how people do business in other countries and the richness. It’s something I find very useful.
Karim Dhala, Executive Director, Qualitas Health, Malaysia


HBI is a very good platform for us to interact with people from different geographies from Europe to Africa and to learn across borders.
Sanjeev Vashishta, CEO, SRL Diagnostics, India
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Sessions include:
Wednesday June 21, 2023
Laboratory diagnostics – where after Covid?
Diagnostic labs saw massive growth during Covid. How has this changed the long-term outlook for the sector? For instance, has Covid enabled the sector to successfully build new relationships with government and public payors? This session also explores growth opportunities in outsourcing, new tech, verticalisation and emerging markets
Speakers include:
Jerome Thill, CEO, Groupe Cerba Healthcare
Wolf Kupatt, CEO, Amedes
Staffan Ternstrom, COO Diagnostic Services, Medicover
Moderated by Martin Debenito-Gellner, Senior Analyst, HBI












Fleming - 3rd Floor
Wednesday June 21, 2023
Opportunities in diagnostic imaging and teleradiology
Diagnostic imaging has seen a huge M&A boom as investors seek to consolidate Western Europe. What’s driving domestic and cross-border consolidation? What are the benefits of scale? Operators of diagnostic clinics have also been acquiring specialist teleradiology groups (Mednax/vRad, Unilabs/TMC, I-MED/Vital, Evidia/4ways). What’s the winning model in teleradiology – independent or vertically integrated ? Where are the new market opportunities?
Speakers include:
Rob Anderson, Global CEO, Everlight Radiology
Jan Hornstrom, CEO, Evidia Nordics
Steve Bird, CEO, Medical Imaging Partnership
Marianna Sampaio e Mello, Associate Director, Rothschild & Co
Moderated by Filipa Baptista, Global Head of Consulting, Siemens Healthineers








Fleming - 3rd Floor
Wednesday June 21, 2023
The evolution in Primary Care
The huge primary care sector in Europe holds the key to outpatient consolidation. Here we look at how operators are pairing it with digital and telehealth, pharmacies and imaging, and at how they are reimagining its delivery and business models.
Speakers include:
Dr Murray Ellender, CEO and Co-Founder, eConsult Health
Lyndsey Reeves, Director of Operations UK, Kry/Livi
Dirk Knueppel, CEO, Primärmedizin TMVZ GmbH
Martin Lindman, CEO, Doktor.Se
Moderated by Martin Debenito-Gellner, Senior Analyst, HBI












Whittle - 3rd Floor
Wednesday June 21, 2023
The Outpatient Differential
Traditional hospitals face massive change. The drive towards outpatient and the creation of virtual wards promises to reduce costs and grow supply. This session looks at how and why outpatient models will shape the future of healthcare delivery globally with real data and examples of cost savings, efficiency increase and patient satisfaction.
Speakers include:
Chris Robson, Managing Director, Akeso&Co
Chris is working with NHS England to implement 40-50 virtual beds per 100,000 people. He shares the lessons learned implementing such wards, the technology required and the early outcomes from projects.
Zisis Sotiriou, Senior Vice President, Regional COO, Affidea
Vivek Shukla, Managing Partner, Surge Management Consulting
Dr Arun Thiyagarajan, Global Healthcare Transformation Director, Bupa
Moderated by Joe Quiruga, Analyst, HBI










Whittle - 3rd Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
AI and Big Data: Outcomes and Automation
How can and have health care operators implemented AI and big data platforms to improve patient outcomes? Where are we on the journey to automate delivery of care? And how what commercial models work best? Using imaging and radiotherapy case studies, this session outlines what is possible now and where the technology will take us next. We look at how AI enables reporting standardisation for radiologists and how automation in radiotherapy will one day soon take diagnosis to treatment from 2 weeks to just 15 minutes!
Speakers include:
Antoine Jomier, Co Founder and CEO, Incepto
Hugues Brat, General Manager, 3R
Nikos Paragios, CEO, TheraPanacea
Moderated by Jean-Guillaume Bayada, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting








Fleming - 3rd Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
Building value through partnerships
There is a massive opportunity for for-profit providers to work with many partners. In particular, that includes the public sector, given that it accounts for around 85% of all health care in EMEA. And often for-profit can deliver efficient, lower cost solutions. Unfortunately, for-profit is regarded with much distrust by many stakeholders. How do you build trust? How do you create a genuine win/win? And how do navigate the political map?
A series of case studies that outline what works and what doesn’t, lessons learned and the value and cost savings that result.
Speakers include
Peter Wharton-Hood, Group CEO, Life Healthcare
Guglielmo Brayda di Soleto, CEO, Ergéa Group
Dr François Sarkozy, Founder and President, FSNB Health and Care
Moderated by Hamid Yunis, Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery









Fleming - 3rd Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
This time it’s Personal: Rethinking patient pathways
One-size-fits-all health care delivery is stuck in the past. Using data, genomics and an understanding of each patients specific needs, environment and history and developing a personal care pathway is proving to increase outcomes and lower costs. Payors in markets such as France are starting to fund such an approach, opening up new revenue opportunities. This session evaluates early data from such endeavours and looks at how operators and health systems can scale-up efforts.
Speakers include:
Thierry Chiche, CEO, Elsan
Vasilis Sakkas, General Manager Partnerships & Solutions, EMEA, GE HealthCare
Dirk Kneuppel, CEO, Primärmedizin TMVZ GmbH
Moderated by Thomas London, Partner, McKinsey & Company










Fleming - 3rd Floor
Monday June 19, 2023
Keynote: Implementing personalised medicine in a university hospital setting
Anna looks at how Karolinska has created a virtual organisation where scientists and physicians find new ways of interacting, promoting cross-disciplinary collaborations. She also reflects on the real potential offered by a new generation of genomic tests, embedded in clinical medicine.
Prof Anna Wedell, Director, Precision Medicine Center, Karolinska
Center for Inherited Metabolic Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital
Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet


Tuesday June 20, 2023
Building the best model for digital
Finding the business model that best leverages digital and technology is tough. Health care is littered with failed attempts at innovation and transformation. Often this is due to a misunderstanding of where value is really created and a failure to build integrated systems. This session looks at mistakes and lessons learnt. What does success look like for providers large or small and how is it achieved?
Speakers include:
Sourabh Pagaria, EMEA Lead Digitally-enabled Service, EVP & Managing Director Southern Europe, Siemens Healthineers
Hafid Rifi, CFO, Asklepios
Thomas Hagemeijer, Healthcare Lead, TLGG
Oskari Eskola, CEO, BeeHealthy
Moderated by Klaus Boehncke, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting
Hafid explains how €5bn hospital group Asklepios has brought efficiency, cost saving and new revenue streams through digital investments. Thomas lays out the various business models adopted in digital health and identifies the challenges and benefits of each. Oskari shares how Mehilainen is leveraging its learnings to build a digitally enabled pan-European outpatient network.










Whittle - 3rd Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
Models that cover more people
Subscription models, a rise in employee paid-for insurance, digital apps and engagement, building their own ecosystems – insurers are making fundamental changes to health care delivery. This session explores these initiatives and their impact.
Speakers include:
Dr Hendrik Hanekom, CEO, Intercare Group
Katie Wadey, Chief Product and Commercial Officer, Simplyhealth
Jalil Allabadi, Co-Founder, Altibbi
Moderated by Tom McMullen, Managing Director, HBI








St James - 4th Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
Investing in MENA
Opportunities in the MENA, in particular in Saudi Arabia, are gigantic but accessing and understanding these markets isn’t easy, it requires strong local knowledge and partners to be successful. In a highly competitive, brand-oriented market getting it wrong is disastrous. This session discusses the opportunities and gives practical advice on how to succeed.
The session is followed by a networking break to provide delegates with an opportunity to meet local partners and investors from the region.
Panelists include Youssef Haidar, Founder and CEO, StonePine Capital Partners, who has invested extensively across the GCC and the wider Middle East. Nexus Gulf, a company co-founded by StonePine and led by Youssef, has partnerships with European groups including Alliance Medical and Cerba
Dr Adil Monshi, Director General for Investment Promotions, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia
Michael Ferstl, General Manager, Vamed
Abhishek Sharma, Founder CEO, Foundation Holdings
Moderated by Hamid Yunis, Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery











St James - 4th Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
Managing your costs in challenging times
Rising costs from inflation, wages, and energy are indiscriminately hitting the healthcare sector and despite government support packages being pledged, the road ahead looks arduous. So how do providers control costs? This session explores strategies to keep costs at bay from strategic procurement to efficiency gains and getting more out of your existing technology.
Speakers include:
Joe Ryan, Chief Financial Officer, Medicover
Few people are better placed than Joe to deal with challenging operating environments. In his 27 years at Medicover he has seen it all from credit crisis to political instability and war. Rising inflation and new health reform in Finland has meant that Terveystalo has had to focus hard on managing costs. Ville discusses the impact whilst increasing productivity and the service to patients
Ville Iho, President and CEO, Terveystalo
Jim Easton, Group CEO, Practice Plus Group
Moderated by Max Hotopf, Founder and Chairman, HBI








Whittle - 3rd Floor