The smartphone at 10 years old! In what ways is it impacting healthcare?

Last week the smartphone turned ten. This device has revolutionised the way we interact with each other and more importantly with our own health. This week’s blog by Amen Sanghera, an analyst here at the Centre, takes a deeper dive into the key innovations that have enabled consumers to be...

Healthcare
07/07/2017 14:43
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Pharma and emerging markets: Unlocking the potential of emerging economies

Just a few years ago, slowing growth in the US and European pharmaceutical markets led many multinational pharmaceutical companies to seek new forms of growth in emerging markets. The primary growth drivers in emerging markets included increased government commitment to improving healthcare access, growing consumer income and wealth, and a...

Healthcare
06/30/2017 12:28
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Smart Hospitals: How technology is redefining future healthcare

This next technological revolution – the technology redefining the healthcare industry of the future - is combining vast amounts of available data, cloud computing services, automation and machine learning, and creating artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions that provide expert insight and analysis on a mass scale, at a relatively low cost....

Healthcare
06/22/2017 14:09
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Breaking the dependency cycle: Tackling health inequalities of vulnerable families

All Western European countries have seen marked improvements in life expectancy over the past few decades, however, these countries also experience varying levels of in-country health inequalities. Indeed excess mortality and reductions in healthy life years are closely correlated to regional deprivation. Conventional explanations for health inequalities, such as lack...

Healthcare
06/16/2017 11:22
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Caring with compassion: society’s most valuable resource?

Inspired by next week’s national Carers Week, an annual awareness campaign that celebrates the six and a half million people across the UK who provide unpaid care for a family member or friend, this week’s blog highlights the enormous challenges that carers face and recognises the vital contribution they make...

Healthcare
06/09/2017 15:12
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Predicting and preventing hospital readmission rates

This week’s blog is written by our US colleague, Douglas Beaudoin, who is a Principal and leads Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Life Sciences and Health Care practice. This article first appeared in the US Center for Health Solutions blog, A View from the Center.1 The article highlights some of the work...

Healthcare
06/01/2017 14:58
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Priorities for R&D leaders: innovation and collaboration

This week marks the release of our first annual survey of pharmaceutical R&D leaders: Innovating to survive, collaborating to thrive. The report is written against a background of rapid changes in the way the pharmaceutical industry operates; with regulatory, health system and political environments all exerting unprecedented pressures on the...

Healthcare
05/26/2017 13:42
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Speak Up – Tackling the stigma around mental health in the elderly and those at the end-of-life

Last week marked both Mental Health Awareness Week and Dying Matters Awareness Week. These two separate campaigns run annually and, respectively, promote good mental health and the importance of talking about dying, death and bereavement. For our blog this week, our Manager Mark Steedman explores the challenge of addressing mental...

Healthcare
05/19/2017 12:50
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People not patients: four reasons why human insight is key to improving healthcare

This week I hosted a panel discussion on how we, as individuals approach health and wellbeing in the workplace and in our private lives. While our contribution to the panel was based on our recent report ‘At a tipping point: Workplace mental health and wellbeing’; we were privileged to have...

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05/12/2017 11:47
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3D Printing: The contribution of 3D printing in improving health outcomes

Our first blog of 2017, titled ‘12 medical technology innovations likely to transform healthcare in 2017’ looked at the technologies that we believe will have the greatest impact on the continued transformation of healthcare. This week’s blog by Amen Sanghera, an analyst here at the Centre, takes a deeper dive...

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05/05/2017 13:54
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Unravelling the complexity of compliance in the life sciences supply chain

This week we launched our report Unravelling complexity: The challenge of compliance in the life sciences supply chain. This report is a follow-up to our previous report The challenge of compliance in Life Sciences: Moving from cost to value, which we published in November 2015. Our new report focuses on...

Healthcare
04/27/2017 11:46
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