Healthcare

We assist healthcare organizations that are confronted with new and fast-paced challenges to ensure that current systems are designed as efficient as possible by providing our expertise to guarantee long-term productiveness and profitability.

Healthcare providers are counting on developing innovative business models, becoming more cost efficient and thinking critically about new delivery systems, all while staying agile with industry trends and developments.

KPMG has specialized in healthcare topics over an extensive period. Our advisors are accomplished experts with in-depth experience who understand the healthcare environment and challenges up close.

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Our assistance is pragmatic and target-oriented, focusing on the following four areas:

Financial Leadership

Swiss healthcare institutions are being subjected to intensifying competition. Creating meaningful fundamental information bases and a target-oriented financial leadership is extremely important for the long-term success of healthcare institutions.

Controlling and planning systems
Coaching, certification, and internal audits for REKOLE®
Business plan reviews and modeling
Compensation schemes & private insurance models
Audits and accounting standards

Profitability

Healthcare organizations are facing multiple challenges, which must be managed on both the cost and revenue side. We support you with tried-and-tested procedures to identify your own potential for cost and revenue optimization.

Results improvement programs
Benchmarking-based cost optimization
Growth-oriented increase in earnings
Process optimization

Strategy & Transformation

Topics such as demography, an increase in outpatient treatments, and integrated care are increasing the strain on healthcare institutions even further. Healthcare managers are under pressure to find adequate and long-term solutions.

Health policy planning
Hospital strategy & management structures
Hospital transformation
Integrated care
Real estate management
Governance & compliance management

Digital & Technology Transformation

The growing digitalization in healthcare can be a challenge to traditional business models. It will require the adjustment of processes, patient communication and organization as well as strategies to meet the latest technological requirements.

Analysis & optimization of IT architecture
ERP transformation and applications
Cyber security checks
Big data analysis
Electronic patient records & certification
Health platforms

REKOLE® as accounting standard of hospitals

The Swiss-wide recognized cost accounting standard, REKOLE®, assures that statements on causes can be made at the level of cost centers and that cost units are comparable in order to serve as a management and decision-making tool. We offer coaching, certification, and internal audits for REKOLE®.

Determination of the status of your cost accounting and financial management
Alignment of the KORE according to the hospital standard and future-oriented expansion to flexible standard or process cost accounting
Certification of REKOLE® cost accounting according to H+ rules and recertification after four years
Organization and execution of the annual internal REKOLE® audits after receiving the certificate

Cost accounting according to REKOLE

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Clarity on Healthcare

In this section, you’ll find the latest contributions from our Clarity on Healthcare. Gain insights into upcoming developments in the healthcare industry. We regularly share valuable information, studies, and more.

The financial landscape and current challenges of Swiss hospitals: Snapshot 2023 & Outlook 2024

How have Swiss hospitals evolved in recent years? What are the prospects for the near future, and what challenges must they overcome?

We surveyed 48 hospitals and clinics and analyzed their annual reports. Explore the summary of key findings.

Discover more about the financial situation and current challenges

Further publications

Your key contacts

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