Healthcare’s Future Winners and Losers

The distribution of market share and profitability across 13 healthcare sectors will change dramatically over the next decade, reveals Accenture analysis of healthcare profit pools—the relationship between a sector’s market share and its profitability.

Some traditional sectors will see market share fall by 60 percent, and new profit opportunities will emerge in others for companies that can quickly capitalize on them. Companies will need to make targeted investments to navigate this massive change, making tough judgements about which areas of the healthcare value chain will succeed, and which will suffer.

Shifting profit pools

All healthcare sectors are not created equal in future opportunities. Sector margins will fluctuate significantly over the next 10 years. Some sectors will grow even...