Advances in health care have dramatically increased life expectancy, and new medical treatments are helping many people improve their quality of life. Yet progress has created daunting economic challenges: in most of the industrialized world, health care spending has consistently exceeded GDP by two percent per year. Health care has become the world’s largest industry—with a value and cost three times greater than the banking sector.
Governments and health care leaders, aware that ever-increasing health care expenditure is an unsustainable trend, are looking for ways to boost efficiency: how can health organizations care for more people, with better results, at a lower cost? Through our research initiatives and worldwide partnerships, and drawing on McKinsey’s extensive health care experience, the McKinsey Center for Government (MCG) is generating insights to help address this challenge.
Our expertise
McKinsey’s research and practical experience provide a strong knowledge base for health care leaders seeking to deliver better care and improve global outcomes. MCG provides access to resources and tools that enable national and regional health systems to transform care delivery and make it more sustainable; health care payors to improve the value of health care; and hospital chains to transform operational performance.
McKinsey's toolkits and solutions include benchmarking databases, models and simulations (such as a medical-risk segmentation model and a dynamic economic model for providers), briefs on more than 20 disease pathways, dashboards and program-management tools, and market and institutional analytics.
McKinsey’s health care experts bring a global perspective and an understanding of how health care really works. Our work benefits from the input of health care leaders and academics globally, as well as from McKinsey’s experience supporting health care projects in more than 70 countries.
Research and collaboration
McKinsey supports primary health care research and leads global health care initiatives. For example, McKinsey’s health care practitioners host the annual Forum for Health in Geneva, which brings together leaders of health care systems to engage in discussions and learn from each other. Additional resources include the Leading Systems Network, a membership-based community convening leaders from forward-thinking health systems; and the Center for US Health System Reform, which undertakes original research and develops tools to help US health care leaders navigate in a post-reform era. Health International, a publication for health care providers, shares insights from McKinsey’s work and from industry experts.
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