Healthcare reform and cost containment pressures have created fertile ground for innovators in the healthcare services sectors. Our consulting teams combine a comprehensive, strategic understanding of the overall healthcare landscape with deep expertise in specific areas.

Our client base in healthcare services comprises:

Medical groups
Hospitals
Health plans
Retail pharmacies
Long term care
Wound care
Risk management
Home care
Medical supply distribution
Cost containment
Outsourced clinical services
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Disease management

Many of our healthcare services clients leverage health information technology, and therefore there is interaction between our healthcare services and health IT practices.

CASE STUDIES

Growth strategy for wound care management services organization

The company had developed a robust business managing advanced wound care services in the hospital setting and was seeking to accelerate its growth by opening freestanding hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) centers for wound care and other indications.

Medication information strategy for major pharmacy chain

A major retail pharmacy chain asked Health Business Group to undertake a review of its medication information offerings. The client had assigned ownership for the project to the online group, but we encouraged the company to view the opportunity more broadly than simply a website content strategy.

Growth strategy for outsourced hospitalist company

A leading hospitalist company was seeking additional growth and evaluating long-term strategic alternatives to maintain a differentiated offering in the marketplace.The overall hospitalist market is large and growing, due to increasing acceptance from community physicians, demand from hospitals for new programs and expansion of existing programs, and a growing realization that insourced solutions have drawbacks.

Growth strategy, financing for medical risk management company

Advanced Practice Strategies (APS) is a medical risk management company, which partners with leading professional liability carriers such as the Harvard Risk Management Foundation/CRICO to develop demonstrative evidence for use at malpractice trials and to provide online continuing medical education (CME) to healthcare providers to improve patient safety and risk management.