Health and life sciences

As the Health and life sciences industry continues to evolve at an unprecedented rate, the need to think more broadly and support the overarching goal of creating healthy populations must remain paramount. The creation of a prosperous, future-state healthcare system in Canada should not stumble before the hurdles of funding reforms, fiscal pressures and patient centricity.

In the face of such a unique combination of pressures impacting the industry, healthcare and life sciences leaders require more than just guidance from a trusted adviser — they need a trusted and forward-thinking partner with the competency, capability and capacity to go beyond the bottom line.

With deep industry insight, experience and a global resource of subject matter experts for support, KPMG in Canada works with you to overcome contentious challenges and capitalize on decisive opportunities with nuanced solutions. We foster collaboration between all levels of the government, and help create partnerships between the public and private sectors in support of the innovation, value creation and development of intellectual capital required to build an integrated health ecosystem:

• Care System Redesign: Working across regional health ecosystems to redesign patient pathways and shift the provision of care to more appropriate settings
• Digital Health: Transforming the delivery of healthcare in a digital world. We help clients leverage technology and data in order to enhance the patient experience, care delivery, patient workflow and health system performance through digital business case development, systems selection, implementation, project/change management and risk assessments.
• Operational Excellence: Supporting organizations develop and embed a culture of continuous improvement to deliver high quality care with improvement in outcomes, patient experience and value.
• Board Grip: Supporting Boards and Senior Leaders manage risk and have confidence in their financial and operational data, processes and controls through effective governance and oversight. We help clients with Internal Audit, risk management, independent assessment of third parties, governance reviews, regulatory compliance reviews, operational effectiveness and efficiency reviews, and external audit.
• Strategy, Transactions and Financing: Ensuring value is delivered through M&A, divestments, joint ventures, shared services and outsourcing arrangements
• Health Workforce: Helping health organizations stabilize, support, and shape our health workforce to address today’s challenges and proactively meet future needs.