Healthcare Economics

Canada’s healthcare sector is experiencing unprecedented challenges from a shortage of skilled workers to rising costs and an aging population creating increased demand for health services. 

Today’s healthcare challenges require novel solutions based in fact-based evidence, a deep understanding of Canada’s public health landscape and technological prowess.  

Deetken has been providing strategic advisory services to healthcare organizations for more than 20 years. Our clients include provincial health ministries, health authorities and agencies, many of whom we have been serving for years. We specialize in solving complex and sensitive problems facing the public health sector leveraging our expertise in healthcare economics, finance and operational models, our strong analytical skills and our focus on client collaboration and providing customized solutions that meet the needs of healthcare organizations.  

Our Services

Health Economics Analysis & Modelling 

• Funding and costing models: Obtain highly flexible economic and business case models to support your planned healthcare investment, policy and operational decisions. 
• Systems cost analysis: Examine the full cost of delivering services across your healthcare system to help improve decision-making, accountability, and impact.   
• Cost-benefit analyses: Evaluate the financial and operational costs and benefits (cost avoidance) of your planned investments and transformations.  

Labour Market Analysis & Workforce Strategy

• Supply/Demand Analysis & Forecasting: Better understand the economic forces driving a shortage of clinicians in your organization and identify options to improve healthcare labour productivity and source skilled health workforces.
• Staffing models: Designing new staffing models to optimize workforce efficiency, recruitment, and retention.

Healthcare Operational Transformation 

• Organizational and operational reviews: Conducting comprehensive reviews and evaluation of health organizations, programs and service delivery models to identify opportunities for efficiency, quality, patient care, clinical outcomes, financial and strategic improvement.
• Service delivery optimization & redesign: Designing new health service delivery models and business processes that are aligned to government mandates while improving efficiency, service delivery and risk management.

Procurement & Transaction Advisory

• Procurement strategy & implementation: Developing procurement models and strategies that optimize value for health organizations and reduce risk and uncertainty.  
• Economic model & deal structure: We are experts in standard procurement models as well as alternative outcome-based economic models and provide training and coaching so all parties can understand, design and implement the new framework and the final contract. 

Digital Transformation and AI  

• Artificial Intelligence Solutions: Through our partnership with Cypress AI, we help health organizations identify and implement novel generative AI solutions to increase efficiency, reduce errors and improve patient care.  Learn more about AI consulting services.

Why Deetken?

Decades of experience supporting public sector healthcare organizations
We have more than 20 years of experience serving Canadian public health organizations, including provincial health ministries, health authorities and agencies.  

Knowledge of public healthcare market
We have first-hand understanding of the Canadian public health market; our team includes former senior executive directors, data analysts and IT specialists in Canadian public health organizations. We understand the unique challenges facing governments in the delivery of critical health services.     

Strong analytical skills
Our team have backgrounds in business, economics, healthcare analytics, data analytics, and biostatistics and is skilled in the use of cutting-edge business intelligence tools and techniques to help solve healthcare organization’s most complex business challenges. We are also strong knowledge translators and excel at simplifying complex research and data for a variety of audiences. 

Hands-On Approach
We employ small teams of expert-level consultants that combine analytical rigor with strong client collaboration. This approach provides our clients with “hands on” senior level expertise and high quality, cost-effective consulting solutions. 

Client Collaboration
Collaboration is fundamental to how we serve our clients, ensuring that the solutions we develop are pragmatic and useful.  

Check out some of our latest work to see how we have helped public health organizations achieve their strategic objectives.

• CASE STUDIES
• Complex Procurement and Negotiation for a Provincial Health Ministry