Conceptualization of System of Care
  • Client required understanding of patient flow through system of care
  • HYGEIA described the components of the current care paradigm, including volume of patients, efficiency of system and changing workforce trends among healthcare providers
  • Conducted literature review, provided epidemiological projections, and interviewed opinion leaders, practitioners and management leadership
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Identified changing dynamics, prioritized unmet needs and recommended where system enhancements would benefit patients

New Product / Service Mix
  • Client wanted to provide useful combination of products and services to support changing needs of physician group practice models
  • HYGEIA interviewed healthcare professionals in multiple functions and conducted on-site visit
  • Explored reaction to new product/service concepts
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Provided guidance on range of needs and identified priorities of group practices

Oncology Care Landscape
  • Client required extensive overview of patient-centric services
  • HYGEIA integrated diverse information sets from publically-available online sources, syndicated reports, and primary interviews
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Identified preferred patient services and innovative offerings to improve patient care

Identifying Patients Outside the Healthcare System
  • Client recognized that many adult ADHD patients remain undiagnosed and untreated
  • HYGEIA facilitated a multi-disciplinary client team and
  • Constructed a simulation system
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Provided estimates and timing of policies to improve physician diagnostic ability and enhance patient awareness

Developing Positioning and Key Messages
  • Pharmaceutical client was preparing new product for market launch
  • HYGEIA conducted a four-stage research program to develop product description and evaluate positioning options, key reasons to believe and emotional benefit
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Determined optimal positioning and supportive messages with appropriate tone for customers

Simulate the Market and Leverage Opportunities
  • Client needed to optimize launch plan
  • HYGEIA mapped and modeled the market and simulated scenarios of varying combinations of tactical interventions
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Identified specific investment allocations which contributed to a launch that exceeded expectations

Campaign Design
  • Regional hospital/clinic system wanted to understand patients' attitudes and less conscious perceptions of healthcare experience
  • HYGEIA interviewed current and potential patients across geographic scope of system
  • Identified perceptions and emotions around components of system
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Determined customer-centric communication platform for the organization

Message Development
  • Policy team needed to identify optimal language and message flow about innovation in healthcare with multiple stakeholders
  • HYGEIA identified and interviewed policy experts, healthcare advocates, policy makers, and public and private payers
  • Explored current perceptions and attitudes and reactions to range of proposed messages
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Identified most preferred message by healthcare stakeholder audience

Client Need
  • Client wanted to plan for changing demographics and decision making of customers
  • HYGEIA conducted a multi-phased research and consulting initiative with client's inter-disciplinary team

Assessing Demographic Landscape
  • Described changing demographics, health status, and health service utilization trends to characterize future senior population projections

Identifying Population Segments
  • Implemented innovative analysis of multiple, integrated claims databases to identify unique segments of the population
  • Profiled segments against a range of demographic, health status, and healthcare utilization variables

Exploring Customer Insights
  • Interviewed representatives of each segment and explored health philosophy, healthcare decision making and attitudes around healthcare access

Communication Development
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Delivered trends in US market dynamics, profiles of patient segments and recommendations for communication strategies

Achieving Operating Team Effectiveness
  • Multi-functional client team needed to improve support to global business unit
  • Internal customer satisfaction explored through qualitative interviews followed by development of annual survey aligned with organizational values
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Determined strengths and areas requiring improvement with specific action plan to enhance performance

Achieving Leadership Excellence
  • Client wanted to improve culture in terms of leadership development
  • HYGEIA assessed current situation, identified needs, and prioritized focus
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Articulated vision of leadership and recommended management action steps