Healthcare operations and cost optimization

Creating advanced solutions to solve the toughest challenges in healthcare.

Huron is a leading consulting firm dedicated to driving innovation and delivering results in healthcare. With deep industry expertise and a commitment to leveraging cutting-edge digital solutions, we help healthcare organizations navigate complex challenges and transform their operations. Our team combines strategic insights with advanced technology to improve patient care, streamline processes, and enhance overall efficiency. Trust Huron to guide you through the evolving digital landscape, ensuring sustainable success and a future-focused approach to healthcare transformation.

Thriving in the healthcare industry today requires leaders to look beyond traditional cost-reduction strategies and rethink how they operate. Huron works with healthcare organizations to transform cost structures, putting in place new ways of thinking and working that enable stability, unlock growth, and establish the foundation for exceptional patient care.


How we help

 

Workforce management



Build a workforce of the future

Manage your team to meet productivity goals by leveraging leading practice tools and technology, empowering leaders, and building a culture of accountability.

Human capital management


Create a holistic talent strategy

Enhance and align your people strategies, talent investments, and culture to improve engagement and retention and elevate organizational performance.

Supply chain



Optimize supply and service spend

Reduce costs and achieve market-leading pricing and terms through enhanced contract negotiation and utilization management.

Enterprise pharmacy solutions


Enhance 340B program and compliance

Identify opportunities to optimize and expand your 340B program, including purchasing optimization, process automation, and hospital-based conversions, to maximize savings while ensuring compliance.

Transform bedside care delivery

Build care teams with strategic and complementary skill mixes that enable team members to practice at top of license and provide the highest quality care.

Design a sustainable total rewards program

Build a competitive, innovative, and fiscally responsible benefits and rewards program that meets the needs of your workforce.

Increase value across supply chain operations

Create a digitally connected, data-driven supply chain to drive efficiency across the organization and ensure critical resources and supplies are available at the right time and place.

Maximize specialty and retail pharmacy offerings

Increase prescription capture and revenue potential while creating a more connected patient experience with a comprehensive ambulatory, retail, and specialty pharmacy strategy.

Optimize workforce spend management

Manage labor costs and gradually reduce reliance on premium and agency pay by redesigning how and where work is performed and aligning flexible staffing models to demand.

Rethink your human resources operating model

Design a high-performing human resources (HR) function  that equips your people with the structure, tools, and skills to work effectively and advance organizational goals.

Elevate your supply chain operating model

Advance your supply chain's potential and create a foundation for continuous improvement by enhancing the skills, technology, and organizational structures that enable change and growth.

Optimize your drug diversion program

Proactively protect your program and address compliance and risk gaps resulting in drug diversion occurrences.

Connect with an operations and cost optimization expert

Tim Dobkins
Managing Director, Healthcare Performance Improvement
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Allen Zimmerman
Managing Director, Healthcare Performance Improvement, Pharmacy
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