Throughout the world the cost of delivering comprehensive, population-wide, healthcare has become unsustainable. It’s time to think differently about the end-to-end health and care value chain and focus on what really matters. This is where our expertise lies, and unlike others who operate in this space, we have real world experience of grappling with these challenges and creating solutions across multiple healthcare sectors.
We work with national health systems, commercial insurers, providers of care and health technology companies to develop strategy and create practical solutions.
Next time you find yourself thinking about hiring one of the established consulting houses, why don’t you give us a call? We guarantee we’ll be able to offer you intelligent, nuanced and practical insight at a fraction of the cost.
We are a globally dispersed team with a unique set of combined talents. Each project we work on is different, but there is one commonality to our approach, and that is to deliver unrivalled insight and practical advice to our clients.
Wherever you are in the world we’d be happy to have a discussion about how we could help you achieve your goals.
Peter is a physician, he graduated from medical school in London in 1990 and is on the UK General Medical Council’s specialist register. For the past thirty years Peter has combined direct patient care responsibilities at a hospital in north London with commercial chief medical officer roles. His experience spans start-up health tech organizations in Europe and the USA and more recently as Cigna International's European medical director. Peter is recognised as an expert in the field of population health management and has published widely in the scientific literature on this subject.
Alf has a background in epidemiology, public health sciences and quality improvement. He has over 15 years of diverse healthcare experience in clinical governance, risk management, patient safety, evidence-based care, health and patient information and quality improvement. Alf has worked across a variety of organizations in healthcare, including hospital provider groups, medical insurers and management consultants. He has visited hospitals across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Central and South America, working on over 400 hospital audits and carrying out almost 100 onsite clinical reviews in more than 20 counties.
Mike is a 20 year veteran of the healthtech industry. He is a skilled senior leader with impressive entrepreneurial experience and a diverse consumer-focused technology background. From founding, and successfully exiting, a health-focused strategy and digital marketing organization, to being appointed CTO of an NYSE listed company and leading the global strategy for a Google owned healthtech venture, Mike has certainly been around the healthtech block.
Bart has two decades of experience in international health insurance, initially with Vanbreda International and most recently with Cigna. During this time Bart served as CEO for the International Organizations and Africa segment of Cigna’s business as well as heading up global innovation for the organization. His tenure at Cigna not only cultivated his management and leadership acumen but also instilled a deep commitment to fostering innovation and driving positive change. Bart is currently advising and mentoring health tech start-ups as well as co-leading a new venture focused on providing affordable access to healthcare in emerging economies.
Healthcare is complicated. There are numerous stakeholders along the care delivery value chain and they often do not work in harmony. This frequently leads to inefficiency, higher costs and poor outcomes.
We are a team who have senior clinical and managerial experience across this continuum and who bring real-world, actionable insights to organisations looking to improve how they function and position themselves in this ever evolving landscape.
No healthcare funding model is without its problems for the simple reason that delivering high quality, timely and effective care is expensive, however, there is a considerable amount of wastage that occurs from funding poor care, wrong care and sometimes too much care.
Whatever your base funding model we can help you identify approaches to reducing financial leakage from three standpoints; (i) reviewing and revising coverage, specifically what is and isn’t covered by the policy or plan, (ii) how provider care is contracted and the parameters that are established to ensure consistent and cost-effective delivery, (iii) critically examining what is being billed and ensuring that unwarranted variation in care is minimized.
Where individuals choose to access healthcare is increasingly a decision that is expanding outside of their immediate geographical location.
A large expat population, a growing global insured middle class, and for some a dissatisfaction with local care provision, is fueling a rapid growth in health tourism, an industry that is rapidly approaching $100bn in size. How do providers stand out in this competitive marketplace?
Our global experience in accreditation, quality assessment and front-line care delivery, in both the private and public healthcare sectors, supports providers on a journey to differentiating themselves and attracting more high value patients in this increasingly competitive market.
Technology is integral to how medicine is practised.
From the advent of the x-ray in the late 19th century, through biotech advances in diagnosis and treatment of historically fatal diseases, the embedding of technology in the delivery of healthcare has had a profound effect on longevity and quality of life.
The past 30 years has seen internet and computer technology transform how we live and work, it also has the potential to transform how we deliver health and care and make it more affordable. Although billions of dollars have been invested in healthtech companies over this period we are, with a few notable exceptions, yet to really see this deliver the much promised transformation of care delivery.
As seasoned healthtech entrepreneurs, with a track record of building and exiting businesses in the sector, we are ideally placed to help health technology companies throughout the lifecycle of their products and services. Having cool technology is one thing, embedding it in clinical workflows and demonstrating tangible health impacts is often the hardest part of creating a viable and sustainable proposition.
Examples of projects we’ve worked on:
We helped a startup health services company develop a suite of online products to differentiate themselves in a relatively crowded marketplace.This, together with refreshing their value proposition, helped the company grow from less than $1m to over $15m in revenue over a 2 year timeframe.
We worked with an established domestic health insurance company to develop a digital health strategy specifically geared to augmenting their core business and existing offline solutions. Key to this piece of work was identifying capabilities that were necessary to have in-house and those that could be outsourced to external vendors.
A rapidly expanding concierge medical network needed to engage their patients in targeted discussions around preventive health, wellness and self-care. We created a bespoke, HIPAA compliant, online health assessment that provided a consistent approach to gathering important health information that their doctors could use in creating personalized health improvement plans.
Working with an established insurance company who had recently started to expand into healthcare delivery we performed “diagnostics” on core capabilities and quality metrics within their existing facilities. We created a roadmap for future operational and clinical enhancement to help them focus resources in order to reach their ten year goal of being the most trusted care provider in the region.
We were embedded within a larger team from one of the major business consulting groups to work on a project for a large global pharmaceutical company. We provided clinical subject matter expertise and international marketing experience to the group who were developing recommendations on how to increase international awareness around a specific disease.
Helping a multisite hospital group decide whether expanding their operations into the UK was a viable financial proposition. We provided detailed information on the UK healthcare landscape, including the major players in the space and the potential size of the addressable market. In addition we developed possible approaches for how they could leverage their existing capabilities to fast-track market entry.
We assisted a global health insurer by performing a comprehensive evaluation of AI symptom checker software vendors. Based on our findings they contracted with our recommended vendor and implemented their solution for their insured customers in specific geographies. This was initially a pilot implementation, however, following a positive business case evaluation, it was rolled out across the organization. This project highlights the different facets of our expertise that are required to properly integrate new technological solutions into the broader ecosystem of a health insurer.
We were embedded within a larger team from one of the major business consulting groups to work on a project for a large global pharmaceutical company. We provided clinical subject matter expertise and international marketing experience to the group who were developing recommendations on how to increase international awareness around a specific disease.
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