Quantum Technologies Strategic Imperatives for Health and Healthcare Leaders 2025

1 Technology-enabled healthcare innovation is increasingly recognized as a global priority, driving advances and collaboration across borders. Current achievements, gaps and future opportunities are best examined through the lens of distinctive health ecosystem roles across the value chain, from creators and deliverers to health enablers. This categorization lays out the argument for quantum technology as a catalyst for disruptive healthcare transformation, in view of current technologies’ limitations and constraints when solving major industry challenges. As observed in Figure 3, each role plays a cohesive part in delivering health outputs, from creating innovative drugs and treatments to ensuring they ultimately reach and benefit patients. A collaborative, interdisciplinary health ecosystem will be crucial for realizing quantum’s potential by overcoming technical, ethical, economics and regulatory challenges. Creators: the originators of scientific and biomedical breakthroughs Creators play a critical role in shaping the future of healthcare. Recent achievements, including the rapid development of mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) vaccines, the deployment of AI-enabled diagnostics, and the rise of digitally coordinated global trials, have demonstrated how new tools and platforms can transform the pace, precision and reach of care. Yet barriers, from fragmented regulation to isolated research infrastructure, continue to constrain their global impact. Looking ahead, the greatest opportunities lie in integrating emerging technologies, including advanced AI, quantum computing and synthetic biology, expanding access to innovation, and building the collaborative foundations needed to turn discovery into scalable, real-world solutions.Quantum’s role in next-gen healthcare Harnessing the transformative potential of quantum technology to advance the future of healthcare. Health ecosystem roles to drive quantum innovation FIGURE 3 Source: World Economic Forum and Accenture. Creators Life sciences Genetics research institutes, pharmaceutical labs, pharma companies, biotech firms, diagnostics providers, technology start-upsDeliverers Health Hospitals, clinics, medical device providers, payer-provider networks, pharmacy chainsEnablers Health and life sciences Regulatory authorities, standard setters and global health agencies, national health agencies, technology and infrastructure providers (IT networks, security, hyperscalers, HPC centres) Health ecosystem roles Quantum Technologies: Strategic Imperatives for Health and Healthcare Leaders 8