Archive | September, 2006

Jean Anouilh Quotes

Jean Anouilh Quotes “what you get free costs too much”…. my quote – “tell this to my clients”

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Vestar Acquires MediMedia Information Technologies

Vestar Capital announced today it was acquiring MediMedia Information Technologies Vestar is the group that took Sunrise Medical private in 2000 in a $365 transaction and is now adding to their healthcare portfolio

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Otologics – The Hearing Study Carina Fully Implantable Hearing Device

Carina Fully Implantable Hearing Device from Otologics. Unique hearing device implanted under the skin and thus not visable externally. Product in advanced stage of development with patients currently being recruited for clinical study.

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Michael Moore takes on U.S. health care

Michael Moore takes on U.S. health care Something on the lighter side – or maybe not if you are in the healthcare industry…

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Merkel postpones health reform by three months – sources – Forbes.com

Merkel postpones health reform by three months – sources – Forbes.com Postpones the central creation of “the Health Fund” structure but does not postpone increased employee contributions. “Lowering patient costs” equals lowering medical product acquisition cost? Also see this an insiders perspective.

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NPM Venture Capital Acquires Harting-Bank Homecare and Medical Provider- the Netherlands

NPM Capital, owned by the Fenter Van Vlissingen family has acquired Harting-Bank. Harting Bank is a major supplier to the homecare and associated markets in the Netherlands and has recently reported revenues of 80 million Euros. The acquisition provides considerable financial strength to this already strong player. The market is expecting a consolidation in the [...]

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Seth Goldin The end of the job interview

Seth Goldin: The end of the job interview. Interesting approach – may not always be practical but may well bring better results from those canned interviews that both the interviewer and interviewed hate. This one you either have it or not. Rehearsals don’t help!

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German Homecare Market – an Insiders Perspective – Adrian Thyssen

From outside and far away the German homecare market seems to be very attractive. Biggest country in EU, strong economic basis and a long time established and accepted social system. As a result of this view nearly all producers of homecare products are trying to in the one way or the other to get a [...]

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