Health

Around the world governments are adopting multiple measures to slow the spread of COVID-19, including contact tracing. We led the coordination of the fast-paced development of Smitte|stop, a national digital contact tracing app implemented by the Danish public health authorities in the early months of the pandemic.

PA Consulting healthcare experts, Ashley MacNaughton, Oliver Excell and Nina Stanley, discuss the four key principles healthcare leaders should follow to embed and embrace system level transformation.

Like any creative work, designers of medical products and services must consider a range of factors as they conceptualize the form and function of new medical technologies and services.

We worked with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to create a nationwide registry of pediatric data that could transform care for children in the US. We developed the concept for a registry, created and validated a business plan and roadmap, identified the right scalable and secure technology, reviewed and shortlisted vendors and strategized staffing. The registry will help the AAP define quality care collaboratively with the federal government, hospitals and insurers and provide benchmark data all organizations can use.

David Crosswhite, growth and innovation expert at PA Consulting, explains that organizations need to lean into change, rather than shy away from it, in order to build a resilient innovation portfolio.