Medical devices | PA Consulting

We’re in a new era of value-based healthcare delivery, one which is connected, care-centric, preventative, and curative.

This creates an opportunity to meet patient, caregiver, and provider expectations by delivering exceptional new healthcare experiences. To achieve this, you need design, engineering, and science-driven innovation, enhanced user experience and value delivered beyond the physical product.

We support you by delivering product development from insight to implementation across the health ecosystem, reimagining solutions and care delivery, to create value for all stakeholders in the new era of health.

Is your organisation ready to deliver the future of health?

Working together

We work with our clients to create growth platforms: physical and digital products, services, brands, businesses, and experiences that are built around human insight, innovation strategy, deep technology, and applied science. We advance patient care and improve treatment outcomes by creating physical and digital solutions that are safe and effective as well as intuitive, elegant and beautiful.

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Drug delivery

Deliver safe and effective delivery of therapies that respond to shifting site of care, sustainability, and innovation trends.

Surgical solutions

Improve outcomes across the surgical care pathway through digital connectivity, advanced imaging and navigation, and wearable biosensors.

Diagnostics

Improve diagnosis and enable timely intervention across clinical, point-of-care, and home-based settings.

Digital therapeutics and biomarkers

Develop and deploy digital technologies to improve disease diagnosis, outcomes, and connection with HCPs.

Genomics and precision medicine

Accelerate genomics research and access to personalised disease identification and treatment.

Cell and gene therapy

Accelerate the development and commercialisation of life-changing therapies through innovation in process optimisation, and instrument and hardware development.

Featured insight

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Report

Sustainability in drug delivery: A green future without compromising safety and efficacy

PA life sciences experts Mayur Patel and Eoin Sheridan discuss the different design approaches that can be used to develop sustainable drug delivery devices.

In the media

Three key benefits of deploying edge AI at the point of care

PA's Geoffrey Sheir, Dan Talmage, Nick Warrington, and Alexis Dumon explain how medtech companies can use edge inference – the practice of deploying machine learning models directly onto devices – to shift the point of care from hospital to home.

In the media

Designing for an era of “homes-pitalisation”

PA’s Eugene Canavan, medical design expert, explores the new era of care technology.

Expert views

I’m most interested in the impact my work can have. Meeting unmet needs for patients and developing solutions that blend as seamlessly as possible into their lives is exciting to me.”

Melanie Turieo Life sciences product development

More data to understand gaps in the care pathway will be a differentiator for every stakeholder in the healthcare ecosystem, especially as payers and providers implement more preventative interventions.”

Nadeem Fazal Healthcare

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We need to design a simpler, more proactive, continuous-care environment in which people are partners with their care team, rather than consumers in need of services.”

Bill Hartman Innovation strategy

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The shift in the point of care brings about complex challenges, including adapting solutions to a home setting, the absence of in-person clinical support, and increased reliance on the patient as a user and increasingly as a direct consumer. MedTech companies that can navigate these changes have an opportunity to be at the forefront of an emerging health care industry.”

Alistair Fleming Medtech

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There is no doubt we have the innovation, that is, the smarts to create innovative medical technologies that can significantly improve health outcomes. What we also need to see, and the NHS ought to be unparalleled in its opportunity to provide this, is the smoother path to adoption.”

Frazer Bennett Chief Innovation Officer

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