Healthcare Practice

Delivering innovative solutions to tackle the biggest healthcare challenges

McKinsey helps private and public healthcare leaders make healthcare better, more affordable, and more accessible for millions of people around the world.

How we help clients in your region

Americas

Identifying innovative ways to address healthcare value and affordability

Asia

Raising healthcare quality in emerging markets using digital health ecosystem solutions

Europe

Improving healthcare quality and access with national health systems and public payers and providers

Middle East & Africa

Building government capabilities to deliver high quality healthcare outcomes to those in greatest need

McKinsey Health Institute

The McKinsey Health Institute (MHI) is an enduring, non-profit-generating entity within the firm. It was founded on the conviction that, over the next decade, humanity could add as much as 45 billion extra years of higher-quality life (roughly 6 years per person on average—and substantially more in some countries and populations).

Center for US Health System Reform

Our in-house source on health policies, the Center undertakes original research and develops tools to help navigate an ever-changing policy and healthcare landscape.

Business Building in Healthcare

We work with both high-growth and established organizations to create, launch and scale innovative new businesses that measurably improve healthcare. We do this from scratch, and in the space of weeks and months, not years.

Featured capabilities

Healthcare Analytics

We help stakeholders make healthcare better, more affordable, and more accessible by leveraging distinctive insights and analytic solutions backed by deep healthcare expertise, proprietary data, and a cutting edge technology platform.

Actuarial Analytics

Optimizing growth through deep actuarial, analytic, and healthcare-risk expertise

Nebula platform

Operationalizing the strategic and secure use of healthcare data to deliver insights that transform healthcare systems and organizations around the world

Featured insights

Executive Briefing

Administrative simplification: How to save a quarter-trillion dollars in US healthcare

– About thirty known interventions could deliver up to $265 billion in annual savings for US healthcare.
Article

Telehealth: A quarter-trillion-dollar post-COVID-19 reality?

– Strong continued uptake, favorable consumer perception, and tangible investment into this space are all contributing to the continued... growth of telehealth in 2021. New analysis indicates telehealth use has increased 38X from the pre-COVID-19 baseline.
Article

Healthcare’s evolving chessboard: M&A capabilities to accelerate long-term strategy

– Healthcare organizations can use M&A to drive strategic goals while securing long-term value.
Article

Leap to the future of healthcare: Reinvent through business building

– In a post-COVID-19 era, healthcare executives are preparing to reinvent their businesses.

New at McKinsey Blog

Blog Post

Responding to COVID-19: Adi Kumar

– Meet Adi Kumar, a partner based in Washington, D.C. who has helped lead our work to help organizations respond to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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