Healthcare Publications

Bending the cost curve: Emerging international best practices

Understanding your issues: Taxation services for the healthcare sector

Medical technology innovation scorecard: The race for global leadership


Bending the cost curve: Emerging international best practices
This publication documents the second series of four conferences that brings together the world's leading healthcare experts. The document explores areas such as 'improving hospital efficiency', 'moving towards precision medicine' and 'regulation of quality' through the use of case studies.


August 2011

Understanding your issues: Taxation services for the healthcare sector
 


July 2010
 

Medical technology innovation scorecard: The race for global leadership
The PwC Medical technology innovation scorecard explores the changing nature of healthcare innovation. This report uses an 'innovation scorecard' to identify which countries have the strongest capacity and capability to adapt to the changing drivers of healthcare innovation and the results show that the gap between innovation leaders and emerging economies is rapidly narrowing.


January 2010
 

Healthcare unwired: New business models delivering care anywhere
 


November 2010
 

Build and beyond: The (r)evolution of healthcare PPPs
Throughout the globe, PPPs are being crafted to make government and private industry more accountable for healthcare delivery and financing. This report tracks the evolution of the PPP models and explores how the capital and operational structure provided by PPPs can be leveraged more broadly to address government demands for greater efficiency in health spending.


November 2010
 

HealthCast: The customisation of diagnosis, care and cure
 


April 2010
 

You get what you pay for*
 


May 2008
 

Report on hospital costing: Reimbursement and benchmarking sophistication survey in Europe & South Africa
This report looks at how hospitals are funded in twelve countries, and has valuable lessons for Irish Hospitals and policy makers.


March 2008
 

Working towards wellness: Accelerating the prevention of chronic disease
This report calls on business executives to lead the fight against chronic disease in the workplace. It describes the trends of chronic disease around the world, highlights the likely impact on the productivity of staff, and outlines wellness strategies for a multinational organisation.


January 2007
 

Healthy choices: The changing role of the health insurer
PricewaterhouseCoopers HealthCast 2020 report identified factors that are critical to creating sustainable healthcare systems, one of which was the ‘quest for common ground’ between the different parts of the health industry, an area where the pivotal role of health insurance was highlighted.


October 2006
 

HealthCast 2020 creating a sustainable future
In this edition of HealthCast, PricewaterhouseCoopers looks at solutions and responses from around the world to the globalisation and industrywide convergence of healthcare.


February 2006
 

Developing PPP’s
This report analyses how PPPs have developed in the EU and evaluates their effectiveness as a means of procuring public service and infrastructure projects. It also examines PPP activity by country and sector, and offers an update on the state of PPP legislation in Member States.


May 2004