Healthcare

Working with hospitals, payers, ministries of health, and life-sciences companies on the operational fundamentals — workforce, digital records, and the shift to value-based care.

Healthcare's strategic conversations and its operational reality have drifted apart. Boards talk about AI, precision medicine, and value-based care. Clinical leaders are running understaffed wards, fixing record systems that do not interoperate, and absorbing payer-mix shifts no one signed up for. We work where strategy has to meet the ward floor.

By the numbers · World Bank Open Data API

Physicians per 1,000 people, Türkiye

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Physicians per 1,000 people, Türkiye
Time series — supply-side view of the clinical workforce
Source: World Bank Open Data API
Challenges We Address

Three recurring themes in healthcare work

Workforce

Clinical workforce

Recruitment, retention, scope-of-practice redesign, and the operating-model changes that take pressure off scarce clinicians without compromising care quality.

Records

Digital records & interoperability

EMR strategy, FHIR/HL7 interoperability work, and the patient-facing services built on top — designed for the clinician's day, not the procurement RFP.

Models

Value-based care models

Bundled-payment and outcomes-based contract design, with the analytics and operational discipline to make the new model financially sustainable.

By the numbers

The clinical-workforce gap

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Clinical-workforce shortfall vs. demand, OECD & emerging-market hospitals
Estimated shortfall as % of required FTE, 2025 — top six clinical roles
Registered nurses
−16%
Specialist physicians
−13%
Anaesthesiologists
−12%
Radiology technicians
−10%
Pharmacists (hospital)
−8%
Allied health professionals
−6%
Source: Kaya Development analysis of OECD Health Statistics, WHO National Health Workforce Accounts, and hospital workforce benchmarks
Expert Inside Playbook

Three principles for healthcare work

01

Clinician time is the constraint

Every recommendation is tested against the time it adds or removes from the clinician's day. If it loses, drop it.

02

Data structures, then dashboards

Do not build a dashboard on broken data. The work is unglamorous and necessary before the visualization.

03

Outcomes that survive scrutiny

Every outcome measure is defined to the standard that an external reviewer or auditor would accept — not the standard that flatters the deck.

Expert Inside Playbook

Patient flow redesign at a large teaching hospital

Use this playbook to test whether the real constraint is discharge flow, pathway ownership, community-care interfaces, or ward-level operating rhythm before adding capacity.

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Segments we cover

Sub-sectors

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Hospital systems

Patient flow, capacity planning, and clinical operating models.

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Payers

Health-plan strategy, provider contracting, and care-management redesign.

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Life sciences

R&D operating models, commercial transformation, and digital health integration.

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Public health

National programme design, surveillance, and primary-care strengthening.

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Digital health

Coordination platforms, clinician tooling, and telehealth at scale.

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Pharma supply chain

Resilience, traceability, and the move to direct-to-patient.

Capability fit

How our capabilities apply

We serve this industry through five connected capabilities. The work begins when the sector challenge matches one of these capability areas.

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Tools & guidance

Tools, diagnostics, and guidance

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Working on a healthcare mandate?

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