Strategy Consulting for
Healthcare & Life Sciences
We combine seasoned healthcare judgment with primary research, advanced analytics, and AI to shape winning growth strategies and investment decisions
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Overview
Health Business Group is a leading strategy consulting firm advising companies and investors in tech-enabled healthcare services, digital health, and life sciences.
Our client service professionals average more than 15 years of healthcare strategy consulting, industry and start-up experience.
David Williams, President
Services
Our services help healthcare and life sciences leaders make better decisions in complex, high-stakes situations. We combine seasoned judgment with primary research, advanced analytics, and AI to support growth strategy, investment evaluation, and execution.
Growth Strategy
Growth strategy is our core offering. We bring disciplined thinking to define the right questions and develop hypotheses, then test them with primary and secondary data and analysis.
Due Diligence
Health Business Group helps investors validate investment hypotheses and clarify a company’s prospects through commercial due diligence. We draw on targeted primary research, expert perspectives, data analysis, and our extensive healthcare knowledge base to assess market dynamics and growth potential. We also surface risks and hidden issues early—before they become obstacles to value creation.
Sectors
Tech-Enabled Healthcare Services
We bring a system-level understanding of healthcare together with deep expertise in the economics, operating models, and growth dynamics of tech-enabled services.
Life Sciences
We work with life sciences companies at every stage of development and commercialization. Engagements range from portfolio management to go-to-market strategy to M&A.
Digital Health & AI
We help healthcare and life sciences organizations apply AI effectively and responsibly to improve quality, efficiency, and patient experience. Our work is grounded in real-world clinical, operational, and regulatory constraints.
Private Equity/Investors
We partner with investors across the deal lifecycle, from screening opportunities and supporting bids to rigorous commercial due diligence. Post-close, we work with portfolio companies to refine and execute growth strategies.
“Health Business Group brings deep expertise in healthcare technology and a highly action-oriented approach. Their team quickly develops practical plans that align boards and surface industry-specific risks and insights that are not visible in standard research.”
—Mikael Totterman, Chairman, Clerio Vision, Rochester, NY
Differentiation
We combine seasoned healthcare judgment with modern evidence and AI to help leaders make better growth and investment decisions. Our model is designed for speed, flexibility, and rigor, bringing senior expertise directly to the work and scaling seamlessly when stakes are highest.
Karen Donovan, Co-founder
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1. Senior Expertise, Directly Applied
No junior staffing. No dilution.
Our consultants average 15+ years of deep healthcare experience and bring extensive professional networks. Senior team members personally design the research, collect the data, and perform the analysis, supported by advanced analytics and AI, not handed off to junior teams.
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2. A Model Trusted by Former Big-Firm Partners
Built by and for experienced advisors.
Many of our clients are former partners at leading consulting firms. They recognize the advantage of our model: senior judgment, faster insight generation, and modern analytical and AI-enabled workflows without the overhead or inertia of large firms.
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3. Optimized for Speed and Flexibility
Always ready for high-stakes moments.
We actively manage capacity across long-term retainers, medium-term strategy engagements, and rapid-turnaround diligence work. This balanced portfolio allows us to deploy teams quickly, absorb urgent requests, and maintain consistent senior attention.
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4. Right-Sized, High-Impact Teams
Assembled for your question, not our leverage model.
Engagements are staffed with right-sized teams of three to four senior consultants, tailored to the work at hand. When specialized expertise is needed, we draw from a trusted network of former colleagues and experts who are fully integrated into our AI-enabled research and delivery model.
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5. Primary Research at the Core
Where differentiated insight is created.
We place a major emphasis on primary data gathering, using experience, relationships, and judgment to access perspectives others can’t. Our teams combine direct interviews, fieldwork, and expert conversations to surface insights that go beyond surface-level data.
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6. Hypotheses First. Evidence Always.
AI-accelerated, human-validated insight.
We use secondary sources and proprietary databases to form hypotheses and build a foundation of knowledge. Those hypotheses are then tested, refined, and validated through direct discussions, with AI accelerating pattern recognition and synthesis — and senior judgment ensuring relevance and accuracy.