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Engaging the evolving US healthcare consumer and improving business performance
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US consumers have become more active in their healthcare decisions and are seeking engagement from healthcare organizations. Addressing these trends can improve healthcare businesses’ results.
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Tech resilience for healthcare providers: Inaction has a heavy toll
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Cyberattacks and tech outages at provider organizations have reached an all-time high. To stem the tide, providers need strong...
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What to expect in US healthcare in 2025 and beyond
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Industry economics are shifting toward non-acute care delivery, healthcare software, data, analytics, and specialty pharmacy...
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How healthcare entities can use M&A to build and scale new businesses
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Care delivery organizations and payers have accelerated efforts to expand into fast-growing industry subsegments with ‘transact...
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The future of Medicare Advantage
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The Medicare Advantage program is undergoing its biggest shifts in more than two decades. Payers can take steps now to mount...
McKinsey Healthcare Blog
Fresh takes on the hottest topics in the healthcare industry
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McKinsey on healthcare: Perspectives and research for the healthcare industry
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A selection of recent articles that cover the challenges and opportunities facing healthcare organizations in 2024 and look ahead...
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The Future of Nursing: McKinsey’s Frontline Insights
McKinsey research on the nursing workforce has yielded invaluable insights into the challenges confronted by nurses both in the...
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McKinsey Insights on Healthcare Consumerism: Trends and Perspectives
McKinsey’s extensive research into healthcare consumerism provides insight into the continually evolving opinions, preferences,...
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McKinsey on Healthcare Podcast
A new series of podcasts around transforming healthcare
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Unlocking the power of price transparency data
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Is the future of healthcare consumer-centric?
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Speaking to hearts and minds in healthcare
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The power of the spoken word can be a messenger for change.
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Beyond the numbers: Creating a more diverse future for health
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A conversation about leadership, visions for a future of integrated healthcare systems, and the clear benefits of more diverse...
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Meeting the member where they are: What is the future of health equity?
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A conversation about addressing the well-being of underserved patient populations and ensuring zip codes are not a key predictor...
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Tech resilience for healthcare providers: Inaction has a heavy toll
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Cyberattacks and tech outages at provider organizations have reached an all-time high. To stem the tide, providers need strong...
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The pulse of nurses’ perspectives on AI in healthcare delivery
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Nurses are cautiously enthusiastic about AI. They are eager to share their knowledge of patient priorities in developing AI-powered...
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Revitalizing organizational health in the care delivery sector
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The care delivery sector continues to navigate challenges following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meaningfully improving...
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The physician shortage isn’t going anywhere
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Physicians shed light on the factors that are pushing them out of the workforce and the changes that could make them stay.
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How healthcare entities can use M&A to build and scale new businesses
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Care delivery organizations and payers have accelerated efforts to expand into fast-growing industry subsegments with ‘transact...
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The future of Medicare Advantage
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The Medicare Advantage program is undergoing its biggest shifts in more than two decades. Payers can take steps now to mount...
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Reimagining US employer health benefits with innovative plan designs
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The US employer health benefits market has the opportunity to attract some 12 million members by offering innovative products...
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The AI opportunity: How payers can capture it now
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AI and automation could lower administrative and medical costs and increase revenue. But payers have yet to mobilize to transform...
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Reimagining healthcare industry service operations in the age of AI
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Healthcare payers, care delivery organizations, and governments have many opportunities to improve consumer experiences and bolster...
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Generative AI in healthcare: Adoption trends and what’s next
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Surveyed healthcare leaders say their organizations are eager to use generative AI to help enhance how healthcare stakeholders...
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Scaling national e-health: Best practices from around the world
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We examined best practices from around the world to identify proven ways to implement e-health successfully. These insights could...
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The potential benefits of AI for healthcare in Canada
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Integrating AI into Canadian healthcare could help simplify administrative work; improve system management, care quality, and...
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How healthcare entities can use M&A to build and scale new businesses
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Care delivery organizations and payers have accelerated efforts to expand into fast-growing industry subsegments with ‘transact...
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How the healthcare industry can weather ongoing challenges
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Even though the industry will continue to face hurdles for the next few years, leaders can seize the moment to spur lasting improvements...
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Revitalizing organizational health in the care delivery sector
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The care delivery sector continues to navigate challenges following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meaningfully improving...
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Digital transformation: Health systems’ investment priorities
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Health system executives globally view digital and AI transformation as crucial to overcome many challenges, a new survey reveals,...
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Health media: How consumer content informs the future of healthcare
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Healthcare organizations are well positioned to offer healthcare content to improve consumer experience and care outcomes, achieve...
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Harnessing AI to reshape consumer experiences in healthcare
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AI-powered solutions can unlock insights from previously inaccessible data and enable consumer engagement and personalization...
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Consumers rule: Driving healthcare growth with a consumer-led strategy
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Consumers are increasingly discerning about where, how, and from whom they receive healthcare. Healthcare can learn from other...
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Healthcare in Latin America: What are consumers looking for?
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A survey of more than 4,200 people paints a picture of typical healthcare consumers in Latin America, including their tendency...
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Working nine to thrive
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Better aligning employment with modifiable drivers of health could unlock years of higher-quality life and create trillions of...
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Understanding and prioritizing nurses’ mental health and well-being
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More than half of surveyed nurses in the United States reported symptoms of burnout. Employers can take additional steps to better...
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Reframing employee health: Moving beyond burnout to holistic health
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A new McKinsey Health Institute survey across 30 countries offers insights into how organizations can help create a workplace...
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Gen Z mental health: The impact of tech and social media
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A new McKinsey Health Institute survey finds that Gen Z’s social media engagement can feel negative but can also help with...
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Public health’s inflection point with generative AI
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Public health organizations can responsibly use generative AI to improve service delivery, bolster outbreak preparedness, accelerate...
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Future-proofing health systems for climate risks and pandemics
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Climate change and infectious-health risks are threatening health systems across the globe. High-impact investments that address...
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The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency: What’s next?
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As a raft of federal COVID-19 support interventions and regulatory waivers expire, healthcare providers, payers, and other private...
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Virtual health for all: Closing the digital divide to expand access
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Affordable broadband with wraparound support could expand access to cost-efficient virtual health for underserved communities....
McKinsey Direct
Investing in the Italian private healthcare services market in 2025
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Private companies are already playing a role in Italy’s healthcare system. A number of factors could help investors evaluate...
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Building interoperable healthcare systems: One size doesn’t fit all
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Seamless integration of healthcare data systems has the potential to enhance experience and outcomes for patients and healthcare...
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Faster, smarter trials: Modernizing biopharma’s R&D IT applications
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To fully realize the potential of AI and digital, biopharma sponsors need a structured approach to upgrading tech infrastructure...
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Connecting patients to healthcare: A conversation with Halodoc’s Jonathan Sudharta
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The co-founder and CEO of an Indonesian healthtech is simplifying and enabling healthcare access in the world’s fourth...
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From discovery to delivery: Finding an investment edge in biopharma services
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Even though the biopharma supply chain is a dynamic and complex part of the pharmaceutical industry, private equity investors...
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Gen AI: A game changer for biopharma operations
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From the shop floor to the supply chain, gen AI can transform how biopharma companies operate. Four use cases show how it can...
Report - McKinsey Health Institute
Blueprint to close the women’s health gap: How to improve lives and economies for all
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Women experience substantial health inequities and poor health outcomes worldwide, and the global economy suffers as a result....
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Putting people at the center of the R&D talent model in life sciences
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Rapid advancements in science and technology are challenging pharma and biotech companies’ approaches to talent. What R&D...
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Operational excellence in biopharma research and early development
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Leading companies are revamping research and early development to curb lengthy drug development timelines and rising costs.
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External innovation: Biopharma dealmaking to boost R&D productivity
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Top-performing pharma companies over the past decade have relied on a short list of critical dealmaking behaviors that drive...
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Small but mighty: Priming biotech first-time launchers to compete with established players
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Biotechs making their commercial debut can improve their launch success rate and overall financial performance by learning from...