Boston Consulting Group

Ashkan Afkhami, managing director and senior partner and global leader of healthcare at BCG X
By  Jessica Hagen 12:35 pm January 24, 2025
Boston Consulting Group's Ashkan Afkhami, managing director and senior partner and global leader of healthcare at BCG X, sat down with MobiHealthNews outside of the JPM Healthcare Conference to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of America's health system – and his take on the importance of trust, governance and iterative development with the rise of AI adoption. MobiHealthNews: Where does the...
By  Brian Dolan 11:09 am September 22, 2015
Mobile health company WellDoc's former chief strategy and commercial officer Chris Bergstrom has joined the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an associate director in the company's healthcare practice. Bergstrom left WellDoc, where he remains an investor, at the beginning of 2015 but served as an advisor for some months afterward. As a member of WellDoc's founding team, Bergstrom was instrumental...
By  Neil Versel 04:21 am August 7, 2012
Collecting patient histories on iPads has reduced physician documentation time by 17 percent at Duke University oncology clinics and has led to more productive exams and consultations, according to the head of a major management consulting firm. Writing for the Economist Group's Lean Back 2.0 column, Boston Consulting Group Managing Director Paul Zwillenberg describes how Apple's iconic tablet,...
By  Brian Dolan 02:27 pm March 5, 2012
Telenor CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas According to a new study commissioned by Norway-based telecom company Telenor and produced by The Boston Consulting Group, there are currently about 500 mobile health projects underway across the globe. Based on their study of mobile health in 12 different countries, including the US, Norway, Thailand, and India, the companies released a number of metrics across a...