Healthcare

Sound resource planning is indispensable for exploiting the available potential. Uncertainties about process flows, personnel responsibilities or existing material resources in the value chain are stumbling blocks to sustainable economic success.

d-fine supports its clients, for example, in the planning of resources and processes in clinical OR operations. We use AI-supported methods to predict individual OR occupancy and to create and automatically optimise reliable OR plans. Unscheduled overtime is noticeably reduced and additional operations are possible given the same workload. The increased planning security allows your patients, employees and your clinic to profit demonstrably.

Our wealth of experience in system selection, interface integration and software development enables us to holistically integrate systems from different manufacturers into daily work and the process routine of your organisation. Thanks to a precise analysis of both the data and its flow, and of the processes involved, we help you define and harmonise both the target and the actual requirements of your processes and help you select the appropriate software systems. We then design the best possible integration of these systems. With our detailed knowledge of HIS systems, for example, we can make the necessary adjustments for you and adapt usability to meet your precise requirements. This customising is just as much one of our tools of the trade as are HL7, FHIR, BPMN or SaaS.

For research-based pharmaceutical and medical technology companies in particular, digitization opens up enormous potential for increasing research efficiency, for example through algorithm-controlled workflow optimisation, cross-product cycle risk management in clinical research and the data-driven search for active substances.

Forward-looking research methods are deeply rooted in the DNA of d-fine: most of our employees started their careers in fundamental research. Even before the advent of commercial big data solutions, d-fine employees analysed petabyte data at the European nuclear research centre, automated standardised laboratory procedures with the help of programs, and used image recognition methods in diagnostics and quality assurance. Our interdisciplinary team supports you in the deployment of new data-driven technologies in the development of drugs and medical devices, drawing on our broad technological and regulatory experience.

Digitization and progressive European harmonisation also entail numerous regulatory changes in the healthcare system. With new national and EU-wide regulations such as the new EU Medical Devices Directive, the E-Health Act, the EU Drug Counterfeit Directive and the AMNOG Benefit Assessment, framework conditions in the healthcare industry are becoming increasingly stringent. New reporting requirements and documentation and evidence obligations are presenting the industry with the challenge of fulfilling them efficiently, and with legal certainty, on top of its actual ‘business’ activity.

d-fine has extensive experience in dealing with regulatory requirements across all industries. d-fine has not only supported numerous clients in the implementation of reporting requirements, algorithm-based, legally compliant documentation and AI-based, comprehensive compliance monitoring, it has also developed an excellent instinct for the efficient and effective handling of regulatory requirements through its work for regulators.

The global supply chains of the pharmaceutical and medical technology industries are becoming increasingly complex. The patient is currently at the end of the complex supply chain, but the ‘last mile’ will become more of a focus in the future. This is because patients expect more personalised, state-of-the-art health care that is convenient for them and as close as possible to where they live.

The focus of our approach to consulting is therefore on supporting pharmaceutical companies, medical technology companies and hospitals with intelligent algorithms to give the patient a more personalised and patient-centric health care. We support you by dealing with such issues as point-of-care diagnostics, patient-specific dosage of drugs or demand forecasting.

Finance and controlling are in an unprecedented state of upheaval. In the course of digitisation, new technical possibilities are making the far-reaching remodelling of existing organisational structures unavoidable. With our extensive experience in digital change management and given the technical and quantitative expertise of our consultants, we support you not only in terms of the classic issues relating to finance and control, but also with planning and implementing your new strategy. We help you to set up flexible, comprehensively networked IT systems that not only improve your operational processes, but also support you with strategic decisions and thus facilitate agile company management in real time.

d-fine supports you with innovative ideas and concrete proposals to meet the growing challenges of corporate treasury & risk management. In doing so, we pursue an integrated approach so that the entirety of all risks jeopardising the success of your company can be identified, quantified and actively managed using established methods – even going beyond the interplay of market, credit and liquidity risks. We would be pleased to support you in questions of compliance and the implementation of the necessary regulatory and accounting standards.

Our holistic consulting approach includes professional and technical solutions, developed hand-in-hand with you to meet your particular requirements. We can support you, for instance, in the professional and technical analysis of end-to-end processes using process mining and in the mapping of the functions and processes you require in treasury and risk systems, from system selection through to implementation.

Ensuring a sustainable and responsible production of  pharmaceutical and medical products is gaining importance for companies and the general public. Furthermore, regulator focus on such topics is growing.

In addition to decarbonization, i.e. avoiding greenhouse gas emissions and the enforcement of social and labour law standards in the supply chain, the transition from a linear to circular economy is of particular relevance.

d-fine supports clients in assessing the sustainability of their products and processes, setting up transparent sourcing and production networks and developing strategies for transforming to decarbonized and circular value chains. Depending on the particular challenge, we apply a myriad of different tools – for example mathematical modelling of complex systems, simulations of network dependencies or implementation of bespoke software solutions.