Quantum Technologies Strategic Imperatives for Health and Healthcare Leaders 2025

Quantum technology represents a paradigm shift in healthcare, with the potential to redefine its entire value chain. Beyond enabling tailored treatment, quantum can accelerate the pace of drug discovery, safeguard sensitive data in increasingly digital healthcare ecosystems, and create more immersive and effective diagnostic tools. The convergence of quantum computing, sensing and communication will not simply enhance today’s systems; it will open entirely new frontiers in medical science, shaping a future of healthcare that is more predictive, precise and patient-centred than ever before. Quantum solutions for health can be categorized into three domains, each exploiting distinct principles of quantum physics to address specific bottlenecks.Introduction Leading organizations are at an inflection point, propelled by quantum breakthroughs in health. Quantum technology domains FIGURE 2 Quantum sensing Quantum sensors detect and measure tiny changes in time, gravity, temperature, pressure, rotation, acceleration, frequency, magnetic and electric fields. They enable ultra-sensitive diagnostics and imaging by detecting subtle/uni00A0magnetic and bioelectric fields in vivo, supporting breakthroughs in neural mapping, cardiology, early disease detection and pharmaceutical production. Quantum technologies Quantum computing Quantum computing takes advantage of quantum mechanics to solve complex problems that classical computers can't solve or can't solve quickly enough. It uses entanglement and superposition to simulate molecular properties and interactions, accelerate structure-based drug design, model complex biological systems and optimize business processes that are computationally intractable. Quantum communication Quantum communications involves the generation and use of quantum states for communication protocols. It secures sensitive health data and clinical infrastructure through quantum key distribution (QKD) and/uni00A0quantum random number generators (QRNGs), offering protection based both in/uni00A0algorithms and the laws of physics. Source: World Economic Forum and Accenture. Quantum Technologies: Strategic Imperatives for Health and Healthcare Leaders 6