The conference which took place on the 24th of April at the European School of Management and Technology Berlin explored the current state and the future of healthcare digitalisation in Asian countries. The questions raised during the conference were, amongst others:

• How would the the digital healthcare transformation in Asia look in the future?
• How will the healthcare digitalisation in Asia solve the challenges of increasingly common ‘life style diseases’ and the expanding healthcare costs?
• How are the Asian healthcare systems being shaped, and how would they compare to the Western ones?

As part of the Asia Pacific Week 2018, the event was organised by BGM Associates, the Asia-Pacific Forum Berlin in partnership with Health Capital - Berlin Partner for Business and Technology and the German Healthcare Partnership. For further details about the contributions please see the event programme.

Prof. Gert Bruche, Co-Founder and Partner at BGM Associates presented at the event on: Digital Healthcare Transformation and Artificial Intelligence – Where is China Heading?
You can view his presentation here.

In an interview with industry magazine European Hospital, our Managing Partner Hans Maier discusses the challenges and disruptions in the diagnostic imaging industry. Hans Maier summarises the current industrial and competitive dynamics in imaging and shares his thoughts on how increasing competition, novel technologies and a changing radiology service provider landscape set the industry in motion.

Link to interview at European Hospital 

Over the past ten years, a total of only 59 German companies have been taken over by Chinese companies. Given the relatively small number of acquisitions and the low average deal values to date, talk of a ‘sell-off’ of German industry to China is precipitate. The 16 acquisitions or significant investments realised in 2012 only represent around 1.3% of all acquisitions in Germany.
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These findings by Professor Gert Bruche and Professor Bernd Venohr are based on a BGM Associates study analysing takeovers of German firms by Chinese and Indian companies over the past ten years (2002-2012). Bruche and Venohr, two business school professors and management consultants, also interviewed a number of acquired companies to gain a greater insight into collaboration with Chinese or Indian acquirers.