Procurement market news & reports

Swiss Hirslanden partners with Sana to get German consumables prices

Mediclinic-owned Swiss hospital group Hirslanden has partnered with the procurement arm of German counterpart Sana Kliniken to collaborate on procurement. The group could save a bucket-load considering price differentials between the two countries.

January 16, 2019

Buyer for German procurement hub

Buyout specialist Nordic Capial is to acquire German procurement hub Prospitalia, according to reports.

May 25, 2018

German procurement hub Prospitalia for sale

We hear Prospitalia, the large German procurement hub, is for sale. Owners Five Arrows Principal Investments (FAPI) – the European corporate private equity business of Rothschild Merchant Banking – has started circulating an information memorandum.

April 23, 2018

Are you ready for GDPR?

The clock is ticking for businesses to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force on May 25. Healthcare Europa talks to Aetna International's CIO Alan Payne to find out what the data handling regulations mean for healthcare insurers and operators, and the challenges on the path to compliance.

February 19, 2018

Interview: Vitters Sim CFO of Q&M Dental Group Singapore

The biggest private dental group in Singapore is on the lookout for more acquisitions and partnerships in 2018. Healthcare Nova speaks to CFO Vitters Sim to find out more about its plans.

January 18, 2018

“We can meet the needs of the baby boom generation with today’s medical capacity”

That is a very bold statement indeed. But Prof Richard Boucherie at the Centre for Healthcare Operations Improvement and Research (CHOIR) of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, reckons it is true. For the past 15 years CHOIR has been helping Dutch hospitals, labs and homecare groups to increase their efficiency through mathematical modelling using operations research methods including queueing theory, optimisation and computer simulation. We interview him on how such an approach can make massive efficiency gains.

September 26, 2017

UK-based Sodexo to target the Indian outsourcing market

The global outsourcing group Sodexo has named India a strategic market for its healthcare business and claims there are opportunities in facilities management.

September 8, 2017

PPPs fail to convince at 2017 IFC conference in Barcelona

Delegates at the 2017 IFC conference in Barcelona were not convinced that Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are the way to go for private healthcare services.

May 25, 2017

Temasek buys healthcare e-commerce platform GHX

Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings is buying a majority stake in GHX, a US-based healthcare supply chain management firm which also operates in Europe.

May 24, 2017

HBI 2017: The three keys to unlocking foreign investor interest in Sub-Saharan Africa

How do you attract foreign investment to Sub-Saharan Africa? Helmut Schuehsler, chairman and CEO of TVM Capital Healthcare Partners, which has invested heavily in healthcare companies in Emerging Markets, should know. He offered the following advice at HBI 2017.

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