By revising strategy and rediscovering core values, a Western New York health provider stopped $1 million in daily losses, energized staff, and improved care access.
Our Health Care Industry Services
Our biopharmaceuticals consulting experts support clients across every aspect of the biopharma value chain, including R&D, operations, manufacturing, commercialization, and M&A, so companies can unlock innovation and bring new medicines to market faster.
Our health care industry consultants work with payers, providers, health systems, and services to maximize innovation, unlock new sources of revenue, and improve patient outcomes and the quality of care.
Our medical technology consulting experts help clients assess their priorities and strengths and then move decisively to innovate—in operations, marketing and sales, R&D, and other core parts of their business.
We are working with global health organizations to launch and scale innovative interventions, fight disease, and manage overall population health.
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BCG Partners with Merck
We are proud to announce a strategic collaboration with Merck aimed at advancing the discovery and assessment of novel drug targets for chronic and degenerative diseases through AI.
How We Support Companies in the Health Care Industry
At BCG, we work across the health care value chain to help our clients navigate their most pressing challenges, including:
- Accelerating R&D to develop innovative therapies and diagnostics across a variety of specialties, including oncology
- Advancing and delivering new treatments and health care models
- Forging cross-industry partnerships to accelerate innovation and provide access to lifesaving treatments and care
- Building supply chain resilience and improving sustainability through environmental, social, and governance goals
- Transforming next-generation commercial models through digital, data, and analytics
- Enabling health systems to promote health equity for patients and society
- Transforming and strengthening health care strategies, capabilities, and ways of working for resilience and continued growth
- Creating value through strategic mergers and acquisitions, and excellence in post-merger integrations
- Accelerating analytics, data, and digital transformation
- Building global health capabilities in many areas, including emergency preparedness, global health security, infectious diseases, epidemics, and pandemics
Our health care consulting experts do this through an unrelenting commitment to innovation, collaboration, and industry-leading expertise. At BCG, we aim to create positive change in the world—for our clients as well as for patients and society—by helping clients deliver medical breakthroughs, innovative cures, and transformative patient experiences.
Our Client Work in the Health Care Industry
50%
increase
At a major pharma company, topline growth for a previously underperforming product jumped 50% in a year after BCG used CRM, payer data, and other analytics to assess its promotional efforts and improve customer engagement.
500k
patients
We worked with a large health system to transform its technology—and its care. Applying human-centered design and an agile approach put a groundbreaking product into the hands of patients within a year. The new digital front door is now used by over 500,000 patients to find, manage, and pay for care with the click of a button.
2x
productivity
A leading medtech company used our Build-Operate-Transfer approach to prepare its sales function for the future and accelerate growth. The effort included launching a 150-person internal sales function to replace third-party manufacturers’ representatives. In less than a year, sales rep productivity doubled while sales costs dropped by 30%.
Client Success
BCG and Zeiss developed an application to give prospective patients fast, accurate, validated answers about elective treatments.
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