Redefining Value in Healthcare: Innovating to expand access, improve quality and reduce costs of care

The growing prevalence of chronic diseases and aging populations around the globe are placing a heavy two-pronged burden on health systems. It’s no wonder that healthcare costs continue to rise rapidly and relentlessly worldwide. Increasingly healthcare is turning to digital information and electronic resources to create innovative solutions that enable greater access to care for their populations, to improve quality and outcomes, while simultaneously reducing costs.

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Fade or flourish?
Rethinking the role of life sciences companies in the healthcare ecosystem

The life sciences industry stands at a crossroads. Its business model is broken, and the surrounding healthcare ecosystem is changing dramatically. So how should companies respond? They can carry on as normal and potentially fade into insignificance or completely rethink how they engage with the other stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem in an effort to flourish anew. In today’s increasingly complex and fast-changing environment, business model innovation is critical to success. Yet few understand when to make a change or – more important – how to execute one.

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The future of connected health devices: Liberating the Information Seeker

Recent advances in technology are enabling smarter, connected personal healthcare "systems" that can supply crucial information to significantly improve diagnosis, treatment and condition management. These developments now make it feasible to deliver health device solutions that meet the needs of these "information seekers" and help reduce long-term healthcare costs.

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IBV Paper: The Value of Analytics in Healthcare: From Insights to Outcomes

Healthcare organizations around the world are challenged by pressures to reduce costs, improve coordination and outcomes, provide more with less and be more patient centric. Yet, at the same time, evidence is mounting that the industry is increasingly challenged by entrenched inefficiencies and sub-optimal clinical outcomes. In this study we interviewed more than 130 healthcare executives to get answers to some key questions including

• How are healthcare provider and payor organizations applying analytics today, and how might they need to think about its future use?
• How do high performing organizations use it differently than their peers?
• What are the barriers to adoption?
• What forward-looking analytics innovations can healthcare organizations apply to meet their mounting challenges?

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