After a severe shortage and sky-high prices, personal protective equipment (PPE) supply has improved and prices have stabilised, say operators and purchasing organisations.
An exclusive analysis by Chinese insurance giant Ping An suggests COVID-19 cases could reach a turning point in the next few days, hitting the peak of new confirmed cases by later this week / early April, with that figure set to fall thereafter.
Most attempts at innovation in healthcare are still being built with insufficient access to the data that defines the problem. The EU's health innovation arm, EIT Health, is calling for providers to be more data transparent for the sake of policymakers and entrepreneurs. HBI speaks to its CEO and director of innovation about curating data.
HBI hears the sale of managed equipment services (MES) provider Althea has been withdrawn for now by PE owner Permira. We look into why it stalled, and when the auction of rival Medipass is due to start.
Mediclinic-owned Swiss hospital group Hirslanden and German counterpart Sana Kliniken previously-announced cooperation on procurement has split opinion, with a source close to the companies saying it is "going to plan and savings have been generated" while a consultant tells it has been less successful. What is incontrovertible is that Hirslanden has parted ways with its head of procurement & supply chain after just a year in the job.
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.
Does Europe's imaging equipment supply oligopoly - Siemens Healthineers, Philips and GE Healthcare - face a threat from cheaper Chinese alternatives? Two service operators give HBI different viewpoints.
Saudi still has opportunities in dialysis, private hospitals and, thanks to worsening relations with Turkey, any ancillary service company with a Muslim workforce.
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