Health

Health Informatics

Health Not-for-Profit/NGO

International Public Health

U.S. Public Health

Market Leaders:

Susan Penfield Robin Portman

From consumer-driven healthcare, to payment reform, to R&D innovation, the healthcare industry is undergoing profound—though evolutionary—changes. Connectivity and information will be the underpinnings of healthcare in the future. How various stakeholders make sense of the new information will help determine who succeeds in tomorrow’s healthcare marketplace. Informatics has become a required competency as the healthcare industry is shaped by greater competition, an increasingly segmented consumer market, and growing demand for scientific discovery that leads to a more rapid commercialization of better, safer, and more cost-effective drugs and therapies.

Informatics is the key to harnessing and sharing the most critical data. Successfully integrating and analyzing disparate sets of data enables clients to use informatics not only to further their scientific work but unlock and realize the full power of a wealth of information. In the life sciences, informatics serves as the critical enabler of collaborative science, personalized medicine, and drug safety programs. For consumers and providers, informatics can drive the quality and price transparency required to support consumer choice and provide the scientific basis for translational research and evidence-based medicine.

At Booz Allen Hamilton, we are thought leaders and market leaders in healthcare informatics and information technology. We understand that an effective informatics strategy for healthcare organizations requires expertise in industry-leading interoperability standards, knowledge of leading technologies such as open-source or service oriented architecture (SOA), and rock solid grounding in business strategy and organizational management.

Additional Information

Read our thought leadership rooted in broad healthcare industry experience and expertise in systems technology.

• Creating a National Health Information Network (NHIN)—In our response to 24 questions posed by the Department of Health and Human Services, Booz Allen describes NHIN as the technology, governance, and business framework; legislative actions; and change management that results in interoperability among geography- and domain-based health information networks.
• Research Meets Practice—A nationwide cancer information network could use cross-boundary knowledge to promote a broad base of breakthroughs.
• Health Care's Retail Solution—Despite promising developments in recent years, much remains to be done to enable a true consumer-centric retail health care market. Drawing on experience and insights from client work and a proprietary study of consumers and physicians, Booz Allen is starting to see which factors will enable the system to work well.
• Accelerating Drug Discovery—Booz Allen partnered with the National Cancer Institute and researchers across the United States to help develop the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG).
• Collaborative Science: Making Ground-Breaking Advances in Clinical Trials—Booz Allen facilitates a National Cancer Institute project that is already revolutionizing cancer research.

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