Okt 9, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, medical technology, transactions
CareFusion, a leading global medical technology company, has acquired the Brazilian company Intermed Equipamento Medico Hospitalar Ltda. The medical technology company in Sao Paulo specialises in the production of technologies for respiratory therapy. Financial terms...
Okt 8, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, market knowledge
The largest U.S. health insurer UnitedHealth (Minnesota) wants to strengthen its business in Brazil with a multi-billion dollar acquisition. For a 90 percent share of the Brazilian insurer and hospital operator Amil Participações SA, the company will pay approximately...
Okt 5, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE
With EUR 580,000 of funding to support, the State of Rhineland-Pfalz has initiated a project for the development of telemedicine. The aim of the „Initiative for Health Economics“ is to advance the care of heart failure patients and patients in...
Okt 5, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, transactions
The merger of the two public sickness funds BKK vor Ort and BKK Hoesch is perfect. As part of the merger, the BKK will grow by 56,000 members, who come mainly from North Rhine-Westphalia. With just under 810,000 insured in the fund based in Bochum, BKK system will now...
Okt 1, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE
Hospital expenditure in the 2nd Half of 2011, and in the 1st Half of 2012, increased by two percent compared to the same period last year. This was evident from the first-time-published benchmark for hospitals by the Federal Statistical Office . A total of EUR74...
Okt 1, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE
AOK and DKV are to end their cooperation agreement for providing supplementary tariffs, which has been in place since 2004. Through the agreement, insured persons of the AOK Bremen/Bremerhaven, Northeast, Rhineland-Palatinate/Saarland and Northwest divisions could...
