“In Profound Healthcare, a single core team of experts works closely with each client for each assignment – ensuring equal focus on all assignments and generation of best quality insights in the healthcare domain.”

Girish Vijaykumar Korde
(CEO, Profound Healthcare Services)

With the ripening revolution in the healthcare industry, the need for healthcare consulting services has emerged since they bring in the expertise and guide the healthcare organizations to make strategic business decisions. A highly acclaimed boutique consulting firm, Profound Healthcare Services stands tall among the healthcare industry leaders to make the global healthcare system grow and benefit its customers and patients.

Incorporated in 2012, Profound Healthcare provides the best-in-class services to the various stakeholders in the Pharmaceutical, MedTech and global healthcare consulting firms. Successfully completing its 10 years in the industry, ‘Profound’ has become the synonym for world-class healthcare consultancy services. It delivers highly reliable services related to the healthcare market as well as provides seamless process support.

THE INCEPTION TALE

It was 2012 when Profound was established with the core objective of delivering high-quality & reliable projects as well as providing process support. The company initially had client relations with pharma companies operating in India. Within 2 years of its inception, the coverage expanded across geographies. It soon started covering Asia-Pacific markets and larger consulting companies looking for an outsourcing partner.

By 2015, it started expanding further by delivering for hospitals as well as medical device companies. Around 2017, Profound started working with international consulting firms based out of Middle East, EU and the US.

Today, Profound Healthcare Services, with utter dedication and commitment, has secured its irreplaceable place in the healthcare consulting industry.

MEET THE FOUNDER

The man behind the idea of Profound Healthcare is Girish V. Korde, the Founder and CEO of the company. With a soulful intent to serve the Global Healthcare Industry with reliable and in-depth insights, Girish laid the foundation of Profound Healthcare. Prior to establishing the firm, he was associated with a global healthcare consulting firm – IQVIA (erstwhile IMS Consulting) in Mumbai.

Girish leads a team of highly experienced individuals having years of experience in the industry. He proudly asserts, “Efficient teamwork is our backbone. We have a network of hugely experienced consultants & associates who work together on each project. Each member is an expert in their own domain.”

SERVICES OFFERED BY THE COMPANY

Profound Healthcare provides an effective blend of specialisation in Life Sciences, MedTech, and consulting. With the undiluted focus on healthcare, the company offers an array of services that includes:

Providing an extensive understanding of niche disease areas where market landscaping is not straightforward and demands a multi-pronged approach, to build/refine the market access strategy.
Offering process support for routine internal processes like analysis of internal data, building analytics dashboards, conducting interviews for primary research, and many more to list.
Offering competence in diagnostic space for devices used in MRI Scans, Blood Banking, IVD and Pathology Laboratories.
With a network of highly experienced experts from the Pharma and Consulting Industry, Profound Healthcare provides its core expertise in realistic market opportunity assessments and projections for clients looking to enter new markets or consolidate in existing market segments.

Profound Healthcare has experience in multiple therapeutic areas including Oncology, Transplants, Neuro / CNS, Ophthalmology, Rheumatology, Blood Sciences, Gynaecology, etc.

THE UNIQUE APPROACH

Profound Healthcare stands out in the ultra-competitive market by ensuring that the same team of experts provides equal focus on all assignments and ensures delivery of best quality insights for all projects that it undertakes.

There are only a few players who offer reliable insights in Oncology in India, Profound Healthcare is one of them. Having a team of experienced professionals, the company owns an unparalleled network in the Indian Oncology space. It covers clinical research, cancer treatment and patient-related insights.

THE CLIENTELE

Profound has an excellent reputation for ensuring the timely delivery of its services. Girish affirms, “The only way through which Profound Healthcare has successfully maintained a strong client relationship is through our project deliveries.”

The company’s client base includes those global healthcare services firms and Pharma companies that wish to understand the niche diseases (especially oncology) in Indian Markets. Profound has delivered projects for consulting firms as well as Pharma companies in the Asia Pacific, EU and USA.

According to Girish, “The mantra for achieving excellent relations with the client is (i) accepting projects related to our core competencies (ii) having a dedicated team of subject matter experts to deliver each of such projects and (iii) deliver reliable and actionable insights.”

MISSION AND VISION STATEMENTS

Mission: To enable clients to entrust the company with the responsibility of developing profound insights, strategic roadmaps and process management, leading to optimal utilization of internal resources for the client and increased focus on more critical & game-changing aspects of their business.

Vision: To become a partner of choice for pharma / med-tech companies, and healthcare consulting companies by helping them to overcome business challenges and achieve sustainable growth – especially in the Oncology segment.

STRATEGIES TO TACKLE DATA-RELATED PAIN POINTS

The healthcare industry is currently facing many pain points, right from dealing with the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases, sub-optimal access to good quality and affordable healthcare, to inadequate infrastructure and insufficient workforce.

Besides, India is diligently focusing on Health Data currently as robust data has driven decision-making in many developed countries. Being a research and consulting services provider, Profound sticks to its core competency i.e., to provide high-quality data and analytics solutions to tackle the data-related pain points.

As Profound Healthcare is all set to begin its new journey in the Oncology space, the company will be working diligently to fill all the data gaps in the cancer research & treatment paradigm.

“We aim to do this by accessing our extremely strong network in the Oncology segment, which enables us to access the best minds in clinical research, experienced treatment providers from top tier institutes and most critically – the patients,” explains Girish.

With the focus on addressing the data gaps, Profound Healthcare is making the cancer data landscape highly robust in India.