Human health will improve, and the burden of infectious disease will be reduced, only if significant investments are made in the infrastructure for providing health care.
An adequate health care infrastructure has many components: physical facilities that make care accessible, laboratory, training, and other support facilities, reliable supplies of pharmaceuticals and other materials, trained staff and professional training systems, and mechanisms to distribute resources and expertise to people who need them. An adequate system is capable of providing preventive, diagnostic, and curative care, according to the requirements of the people being served.
We support projects that strengthen local systems for delivering health care, as well as national and regional systems that support the provision of care at the local level. We are interested in cost-effective innovations that make good health care more accessible to poor people and communities.
Evolving policies, processes, and capabilities to deliver smart health care will not be easy, given global health care’s magnitude and complexity. For example, there could be significant logistical and technology obstacles to overcome. More and more inpatient services are being pushed to non-traditional care settings such as the home and outpatient ambulatory facilities. Members of the health care delivery chain often work in multiple locations (hospital, doctor’s office, retail medical clinic, diagnostics lab). Patients may reside in a city or even a country away from their care providers. And health records frequently reside in different formats and on disparate systems. Clinicians may, therefore, have difficulty coordinating appointments and procedures, sharing test results, and involving patients in their treatment plan. In other words, care providers may be working hard but they are not necessarily working smart.
Improving financial performance and operating margins is likely to remain a top issue. Many public and private health systems have been experiencing revenue pressure, rising costs, and stagnating or declining margins for years. The trend is expected to persist, as increasing demand, funding limitations, infrastructure upgrades, and therapeutic and technology advancements strain already limited financial resources. Combined health care spending in the world’s major regions is expected to reach USD $8.7 trillion by the next years, up from USD $7 trillion in 2015. As has been the case for the past several years, spending is expected to be driven by aging and growing populations, developing market expansion, clinical and technology advances, and rising labor costs.
Providing healthcare facilities fit for the 21st century is about more than providing a new building. It’s about creating an environment that allows patients to receive the highest level of care and supports medical professionals in the safe delivery of this care. We secure work through new procurement models, such as public private partnerships (PPP), as well as traditional contracting methods.
Clinical Operations Excellence
We help healthcare providers transform their clinical operations to improve quality and reduce costs, taking a value-based approach and engaging and inspiring hospital staff.
Alignment with the strategic vision
By engaging and aligning individuals from the hospital unit to the board room our operations projects are an extension of our clients’ overall strategic vision.