Since 2013, Happytal has been present in more than 130 hospitals and offers software solutions that allow patients to make their pre-admission or their request for a single room online. In this way, healthcare establishments can automate requests for coverage by complementary organisations.
And La Poste has just announced that it has bought this company for an undisclosed amount.
The co-founders of happytal Pierre Lassarat and Romain Revellat are delighted: “At Happytal, like La Poste, we share the vision of developing services for end-to-end patient care and people who lack autonomy and we have been carrying this vision for ten years now »
Through this acquisition, La Poste, a player in the field of home healthcare since 2017, aims to become the reference partner for players in care and autonomy in France. It operates from prevention to support for chronic patients at home via its subsidiary Asten Santé, or remote medical monitoring via its subsidiary Nouveal.
“Our ambition is to exceed one billion very quickly with useful services for establishments and healthcare professionals and patients.“
“The ambition is to position happytal as the central interlocutor for hospitals to coordinate and deploy all of these services to patients”, summarizes La Poste.
Philippe Dorge, Deputy Managing Director of La Poste in charge of the Services-Mail-Parcels branch, recalls that La Banque Postale is, according to him, the leading bank financier of public hospitals and that the La Poste group generates 700 million euros in turnover. business in health services.
“Our ambition is to exceed one billion very quickly with useful services for establishments and healthcare professionals and patients.“, he added.
Delphine Mallet, director of the health and autonomy division of La Poste, points out that: “The challenge of this merger is to capitalize on the presence of Happytal in healthcare establishments and on its expertise as an integrator to make it a single operator of interconnected services (administrative, medical and local) which improves care. We want to support patients in a global way while making the link with city medicine. »